Linus Torvalds Receives 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

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On other news, it seems Con Kolivas has released an "improved" version of its BFS CPU Scheduler (MuQSS, Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler):...

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My 2c



[TROLL MODE] This is the most epic statement I've ever heard about nVidia... [/TROLL MODE END]

1- In...

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Oh my, another thread asking to ban Qaridarium... Why is it so hard adding him to your "ignore list" in Phoronix's control panel?...

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Dude, the turtle game seemed like a game from N64!

Cheers

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Some hints for you



I think your distro has on synaptic "mplayer-vaapi" and "xvba-video" packages. Install...

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Thank you for your response... Now I'm a bit more clarified about the power profiles... But I'd like to have dynpm or a lower power consuption profile...

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Well, I also don't like too much the fact that nVidia doesn't support Optimus/FOSS drivers on Linux, but the fact is that they seem to work at least at...

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See to believe

Well, in opposition to the hype I've seen in the article, I'll take a more "conservative" approach: when 3.5 stable...

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Well, I think and agree that using FOSS ATI drivers is the way to go on GNU/Linux, but I'd use FOSS drivers more often if:

- I had PROPER...

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For Arch Linux users, I created this morning a package in AUR (if you want to try libusbx): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59473. At the moment,...

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Well, I aknowledge that PA and systemd aren't forks from ALSA and init, respectively... And that PA is a layer that works over ALSA...

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Big LOL

[A bit of irony] Oh my, now the guy that created init-ng (systemd) and alsa-ng (Pulseaudio) is criticizing the addition of procps-ng...

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Adding to my first post, I'd also like to add that the time your computer takes to boot depends strongly of your Hardware. In the case of systemd, I can...

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I've just read the tips for making systemd booting faster. ATM, I use it as my default init program. Unfortunately, it seems some tips mentioned in the...

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Congratulations to Linus Torvalds for the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize award! Hope this makes some more people try Linux (distros)...
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