Torvalds slams Miguel de Icaza's anti-Linux FUD

[quote] Linux creator Linus Torvalds has poured scorn on claims made by the co-founder of the GNOME Desktop project, Miguel de Icaza, that he (Torvalds) was in any way to blame for the lack of development in Linux desktop initiatives. De Icaza made ...

Message posted on the September 2nd, 2012 - 2:14 PM ET

Linus Torvalds says Fuck You to NVidia

Linus Torvald has flipped the bird at the camera when talking about NVidia – the worst company that he has ever had to deal with.

News published on the June 20th, 2012 - 6:37 AM ET

Mentor Graphics Helps NVIDIA Deliver New Microsoft Visual Studio-Based Android Development Platform

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that it developed a package extension to Microsoft Visual Studio that enables seamless native C/C++ and JAVA development for Android software. The ...

Press published on the February 15th, 2013 - 8:00 AM ET

GE’s AXIS Version 5.1 Makes Development of Sophisticated Multiprocessor Applications Faster and Easier

Support for latest multicore/multithreading hardware platforms RDMA support delivers higher system throughput Code portability minimizes lifetime cost of ownership.

Press published on the June 19th, 2012 - 9:00 AM ET

GE Creates High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Center of Excellence to Support Demands of ISR, Radar, and EW Applications

Military/aerospace customers will benefit from consulting and performance optimization Off-the-shelf and custom systems with high Technical Readiness Levels (TRL) Already-extensive GE ...

Press published on the May 10th, 2012 - 9:00 AM ET

New Single Board Computer From GE Takes Advantage Of 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processors To Transform 3U VPX Performance

SBC324 is second of five products planned to take advantage of ‘Sandy Bridge’ technology.

Press published on the January 25th, 2011 - 10:00 AM ET

GE Provides High Performance Computing (HPC) to Improve Defense Intelligence Applications With New Quad Core Multiprocessor

DSP280 enables faster delivery of higher quality information to facilitate superior decision-making.

Press published on the March 29th, 2011 - 9:00 AM ET

NVIDIA Loses Huge GPU Order Due To Linux Blob

<http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyNTE> <quote> NVIDIA has lost an order of at least ten million graphics cards because their GeForce/Quadro driver is closed-source. It's been a very interesting week in the ...

Message posted on the June 23rd, 2012 - 5:49 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Problem with dosbox and latest Nvidia driver plus xorg

I did an update world yesterday, which updated both nvidia-drivers and xorg-server. I'm probably a niche here, but I use dosbox to play ye olde DOS games. It's been running fine for the last few months. But after the update, a dosbox textmode ...

Message posted on the November 20th, 2012 - 4:00 PM ET

[Video] LOL, Linus says "fsck You" to Nvidia

[quote] Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds, hosted by Aalto University Center for Entrepreneurship in Otaniemi on June 14, 2012. Linus was interviewed by Will Cardwell and followed with a Q&A session with the audience. We had fun! [/quote] ...

Message posted on the June 17th, 2012 - 1:07 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Xorg server wants acpid daemon?

I'm running an NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] add-on video card on 32-bit Gentoo with xorg-server-1.13.0-r1. It appears to be looking for acpid, according to the Xorg.0.log. "rc-update show" doesn't show anything resembling acpid. Would ...

Message posted on the November 24th, 2012 - 9:10 PM ET

[REGRESSION][BISECTED] Notebook crashes upon detecting the PCI subsystem with kernels >= 2.6.24-rc7

Hi. My mom has a notebook that is quite quirky and I have had a hard time trying to install any Linux distribution on it. This is a notebook that works fine with Windows Vista, but she wants to use Linux and wipe Windows completely. The notebook ...

Message posted on the August 19th, 2011 - 2:00 PM ET

Bug#603395: linux-2.6: add support for MacBookAir3,1 and MacBookAir3,2

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist Hi, As requested, here are the patches needed to support the new MacBook Air machines. I went patch-hunting in various trees & ...

Message posted on the November 13th, 2010 - 12:40 PM ET

[ 00/98] 3.8.5-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.5 release. There are 98 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be made ...

Message posted on the March 26th, 2013 - 7:00 PM ET

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