At the end of February, Sessionk was announced, a new component that’s capable of allowing the KDE Plasma desktop to start-up a heck of a lot faster… Read More »
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KMS Drivers To Unseat FBDEV For Embedded Linux
Laurent Pinchart talked at last month’s Embedded Linux Conference about kernel mode-setting (KMS) and how it’s beginning to unseat FBDEV for the dominant kernel display API for embedded systems… Read More »
CentOS 6.4 Gets Released
Less than one month after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 was released, the CentOS offshoot is now out with its 6.4 release… Read More »
NVIDIA Set To Discontinue Linux 2.4 Kernel Support
For anyone still using the ancient Linux 2.4 kernel, NVIDIA will soon be discontinuing support for the 2.4 kernel from their mainline Linux graphics driver… Read More »
Violent games make people violent; so do pictures of snakes
“For nearly thirty years we’ve been having this discussion, asking the question: do violent movies, music or video games make people violent? Well according to Brad Bushman and Craig Anderson of Iowa State University, yes. Based on the results of their research they concluded in 2001 that video games and violent media can make people aggressive and violent. Based upon ... Read More »