Posted by meshal on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 20:04:47 EST (8534 reads) Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor. Topic: News |
Posted by meshal on Saturday, January 12, 2008 @ 06:36:14 EST (11256 reads) The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era. Read More...Topic: security |
Posted by meshal on Monday, January 07, 2008 @ 18:43:50 EST (51328 reads) Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has completed deployment of a Sun and Linux-based high performance computing cluster, which will be used for oil reservoir simulations and other intensive computing tasks. Read More...Topic: security |
Posted by meshal on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 @ 05:39:40 EST (9672 reads) Today after much testing we are finally delivering our first Linux report from AMD's new 790FX Chipset. Is the chipset that's designed for PC enthusiasts and performance seeking overclockers worth anything under Linux? Does this chipset even work with the latest Linux desktop distributions? We'll be answering these questions and more, as we look at the Gigabyte MA790FX-DS5 motherboard. Topic: hardware |
Posted by meshal on Monday, December 17, 2007 @ 05:21:18 EST (13996 reads) One of the special abilities of ATI's R600 GPU family is the integrated 5.1 surround sound audio support through HDMI. Many Radeon HD 2000 and HD 3800 series graphics cards also ship with a DVI to HDMI dongle, so that one can experience the full video playback capabilities of these discrete graphics cards. But what level of HDMI support can Linux users expect when using these latest ATI graphics cards? We have done some testing internally and have the initial ATI Linux HDMI video and audio results to report in this article. Read More... |
Posted by meshal on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 @ 03:14:45 EST (10863 reads) Anonymous writes There is almost no blog about Kuwait Linux. I have started KwtLinux.com recently and am working with few guys to get the site up to date with the latest Linux news and tips. Read More... Topic: android |
Posted by meshal on Thursday, September 13, 2007 @ 08:51:12 EDT (11859 reads) Ending off the X Developer Summit this year, Matthew Tippett handed off
ATI's
GPU specifications to David Airlie on a CD. However, the specifications
are also now available on the Internet! At http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/
is the location of the documentation where you can freely download the
files. Read More... |
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Posted by meshal on Friday, August 24, 2007 @ 17:16:34 EDT (10955 reads) Anonymous writes Linux + DVD is a quaerterly totally devoted to Linux and all linux-related projects, news etc.
If you would like to know more about:
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Posted by meshal on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 @ 16:33:11 EDT (11545 reads) I'm big fan of Slackware Linux, I have used it since the 9.0 version, and I am very happy with this distribution, in the beginning was challenging to setup mostly because I was a newbie, today I am installing and reviewing the recently released version 12 in my toshiba l35-sp1011.. Topic: hardware |