In the mind of Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is one of the most influential persons in the world of technology; his brain child, Linux, runs practically everything, from your smart phone, servers, even the controls for CERN.
Linus Torvalds is one of the most influential persons in the world of technology; his brain child, Linux, runs practically everything, from your smart phone, servers, even the controls for CERN.
Phoronix turns 10 years old (congrats guys!) and to celebrate, they decided to do a huge GPU comparison test, using Linux Open Source drives. And huge is not an understatement here.
We hear about Linux all the time these days, some people are experimenting with it via Live CDs and others have made the jump full time. One of the things you hear mentioned all the time is the kernel. But what does a kernel do?
The most popular Linux distribution, according to our friends over at Distrowatch, has just released its latest and greatest.
On a lighter note, The Linux Foundation asked Linux creator Linus Torvalds to read some of the community’s more colorful tweets.
We see reviews with benchmarks comparing nVIDIA and AMD cards all the time, but not so much when using a Linux operating system. So Phoronix comes to the rescue, by pitting 8 cards against each other to give us a clear view on the two companies’ strengths and weaknesses under the latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.