Archive for March, 2009

The Fedora team has announced the Fedora 11 beta release. It comes packed with new features, such as Ext4 as the default filesystem, Nouveau driver by default, kernel mode setting on Intel, ATI and Nvidia drivers, many virtualization improvements, IBus input method, GCC 4.4, and much more.
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Phoronix: “With the forthcoming release of Fedora 11, Red Hat has made the bold (but wise) decision of replacing xf86-video-nv as the default open-source NVIDIA driver with the Nouveau driver instead. The xf86-video-nv driver is officially maintained by NVIDIA, but it’s their half-assed attempt at being open-source friendly.”
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white papers (IT World)

The free Linux OS shows a glimpse of technologies that may end up in a future version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. When you’re talking Linux, three big names always pop up: Canonical’s Ubuntu, Novell’s openSUSE and Red Hat’s Fedora.
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Detector Pro: “You can download and install the new Ardour 2.8 in Ubuntu with single click from getdeb.net…”
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— Mar. 19, 2009 — The Chinese company Top Crown Technology announced a netbook using Via’s 64-bit Nano processor and VX855 northbridge/southbridge.
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