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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Linux Performance

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The Radeon HD 4870 uses a slightly faster RV770 core than what’s used by the Radeon HD 4850. The HD 4870 has a reference core clock of 750MHz (compared to 625MHz with the HD 4850) and 900MHz memory clock (compared to 993MHz with the HD 4850). While the memory clock is slightly slower with the [...]

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Home Automation in GNU/Linux

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Home Automation is anything that your home does for you automatically to make living there more enjoyable or productive. It covers many areas, including remote and timed control of lights and electrical home appliances, distributed media services, and communication. Over the last 10 years, many hardware manufacturers have presented their own proprietary solutions to these [...]

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX Linux Performance

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We’ve been meaning to deliver benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX under Linux for some time, but with the recent rollout of the GeForce GTX 200 series, the competition presented by the ATI Radeon HD 4850, and the introduction of the GeForce 9800GTX+, the GeForce 9800GTX is dropping in price and captivating the interest of [...]

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ATI Radeon HD 4850 Linux Performance

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While you are likely already familiar with the ATI Radeon 4800 series, it’s the industry’s first TeraFLOPS GPU, the RV770 contains 800 stream processors, and the Radeon 4870 is the first graphics card deploying GDDR5. The Radeon HD 4850 has its RV770 core clocked at 625MHz with 110W power consumption while its big brother, the [...]

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eSOM270 - SODIMM Capable of Runnig Linux

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India-based E-con Systems has announced a Marvell PXA270-based system on module (SOM) that sells for as little as $75. The SODIMM-sized eSOM270 comes pre-installed with Linux or Windows CE 6.0, includes 64MB or 128MB of RAM, and has a camera interface and a LCD controller.
PXA270 processor is a system on a chip and has the [...]

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Dell E Series - The New Mini Notebooks Got the Names And Specs

The Dell’s new upcoming mini notebooks got their name revealed, as well as the specs. “Dell E” will be available in 8.9-inch and the 12.1-inch “E Slim” models, both at a mere 0.8-inches thick. Dell says the new Atom-based mini-notebook line is designed to bridge the content/usability gap between cell phones and full notebooks.
The 8.9-inch [...]

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Economist: Open Sesame - Open Hardware Matters

Consumer devices: Revealing the underlying technical details of electronic gadgets can have many benefits, for both users and manufacturers.
All of which suggests that open-source hardware will really start to make a difference when big hardware makers and consumer-electronics firms begin to embrace the idea. “It’s a new day for consumer electronics,” says Chumby’s Mr Tomlin. [...]

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On Asus P5Q and Express Gate Linux

ASUS recently introduced Express Gate technology, and the first on-board Energy Processing Unit for those who care about the environment and want instant access to their PCs. As we all know by now, all the latest Asus P5Q series motherboards based on latest Intel P45 chipset, will feature Express Gate Linux version, which previously was [...]

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Acer Aspire One - Mini Notebook With Linpus Linux Lite

Acer is joining HP, Dell and others in launching a subnotebook to compete with the new Asus Eee PC range. The company Tuesday showed off its new Aspire one, a small form-factor, ultra-portable computer at the Computex trade show in Taiwan.

The new Intel Atom N270 chip based with 8.9-inch, 1024 x 600 pixel laptop with [...]

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Video: Android Fullscreen Demos

The folks over at Android Community have posted some exclusive videos of some new Android  demos. Very cool stuff happening with that platform. I am not going to write too much about this as the the videos they provided speak for themselves.

And check out the compass feature in the following video, which I find really [...]

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Ubuntu: Enabling Broadcom BCM43xx Based Wireless

The b43 drivers (bcm43xx in mainline kernels, b43 and b43legacy in wireless-2.6 and 2.6.24 and later) are drivers for the 802.11 B/G family of wireless chips Broadcom produces. I think that prior to 8.04 the driver was named bcm43xx, and now it is simply b43. If when doing a fresh install of Hardy, i.e. 8.04, [...]

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Asus Ebox - Desktop version of Eee PC

Asus EBOX - the recently announced desktop version of the Eee laptop. These little devices are expected to be sold for under $300, feature a full-featured Linux, same Xandros distro as on Eee PC, and maybe use Intel’s Atom processor.

The unit does look rather like a Wii, incorporating 2GB of memory and a 160GB [...]

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VIA OpenBook - Ответ на Asus Eee PC

Хотят того производители ноутбуков, или нет, но в общественном сознании все относительно доступные ноутбуки массой около одного килограмма будут сравниваться с набравшим завидную популярность Asus Eee PC. Не желая отставать от компании Asus, прочие производители активно готовят к выпуску аналогичные решения, пытаясь предложить более удачное соотношение функциональности и цены. Acer, MSI, HP, Gigabyte - это [...]

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OLPC XO 2.0 Prototype Unveiled

Here comes the prototype 2.0 version of the OLPC (One Per Child) notebook, with no keyboard  will have a clamshell form-factor with two 16:9 touch-screen displays.

The XO-2 will employ the dual indoor-and-sunlight displays, which was pioneered by former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen. The design will provide a right and left page in vertical format, [...]

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Hardware Review: AMD FireGL V8600 On Linux

Since the introduction of AMD’s new Linux OpenGL driver and their open-source strategy running in parallel, the past few months have been especially exciting for ATI Linux users and the Linux graphics scene in general. To many Linux users, ATI graphics have went from being a name synonymous with problems and [...]

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Asus ExpressGate - Millions of Motherboards with Linux Embedded

Asus has partnered up with Device VM to produce millions of motherboards with almost instant on technology.  Using a Linux-based operating system stored in flash memory, the motherboards will be able to turn on and access common features like Internet and Voice over IP in few seconds.

Asus is rebranding Device VM’s Splashtop operating system into [...]

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MSI Wind - Sporting 10″ Screen and an Atom Processor

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There will be two versions on the market, one with Linux and other with Wndows XP, both models incorporating a Shelton’08 platform with variable speed 1.0-1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of memory, an 2.5″ 80GB hard drive, integrated Intel graphics courtesy of the 945GMS chipset, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and a webcam. As well both [...]

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AMD 780G Chipset based Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G Motherboard

Sapphire’s PURE-series PI-AM2RS780G motherboard features the 780G chipset. This chipset is capable of handling 125W Phenom processors—something of which other 780G motherboards are incapable. On-board is a Radeon HD3200 integrated graphics solution, which may not seem overly powerful on its own, but Hybrid Crossfire promises to raise the bar.

“The 780G chipset powering Sapphire’s PI-AM2RS780G motherboard [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04: Enabling Atheros AR5007 Based Wireless

If you have Atheros AR5007 wireless network adapter follow this procedure to make it work in ubuntu 8.04 using the latest MadWiFi drivers.
For 32-bit Users

1. First go to System–>Administration–>Hardware Drivers” and disable by un-ticking the following option:
Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal)
Reboot your system.
2. Preparing your system
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Then open the terminal from Applications–>Accessories–>Terminal and [...]

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Video Review: First look at SUSE on the HP Mini-Note 2133

HP Mini-Note comes with SUSE Enterprise Linux, and not OpenSUSE.

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Linux Beta Drivers For Creative Labs X-Fi Series Sound Cards Noticed

I’d like to buy the new Creative Lab’s X-Fi sound card, but the problem is that according to ALSA, the sound card is still not supported under Linux, after the card being out for sometime now.
BTW, if you do not know, lately Creative Labs was not so kind to Daniel_k, who wrote few modified drivers [...]

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Shuttle LinuXPC SD3002Q

PERSONAL computers with Linux pre-installed have been springing up all over the place in recent months. Now Shuttle, the Taiwanese company famous for making small but perfectly formed PCs, have gotten in on the act. I’ve been spending some time in the company of their LinuXPC SD3002Q, which is [...]

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