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To the Tablet of Vivaldi Plasma developer Aaron Seigo it was quiet, after a Chinese manufacturer shipwrecked. Now the project is picking up speed again.

Originally, the over a year ago as Spark , launched and then renamed Vivaldi Tablet with Plasma Active already be long on the market. The team led by Seigo had to over the past year to learn a hard lesson, as he describes in his blog . Chinese manufacturers generally do not worry about things like GPL or even abgesprochenes board design. Can save a half a cent per unit, components can be replaced at will.
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Red Hat Linux UEFI expert Matthew Garret believes that problems with Linux on UEFI notebooks concern not only with Samsung devices. The respective manufacturers but are mostly to blame themselves. Really dramatic were problems with UEFI secure boot, but so far only with Samsung.

During a report in last week that Samsung notebooks after a single boot Linux started no more than UEFI, has the weekend also Red Hat UEFI specialist Matthew Garrett in his blog on the subject expressed.

That installing Linux on UEFI laptops to a defective firmware could lead was, in his view, due to a manufacturing fault. According to Garrett, there are even problems with UEFI on notebooks from other manufacturers, but which are less dramatic. Overall, let Linux install easily on the vast majority of devices.
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It was updated branch R313 proprietary video drivers NVIDIA. The new version of the number 313.18 is declared stable. It supports the work with the latest versions of the Linux kernel and graphical X-server. The driver software is available for other UNIX-like OS.

Further changes:

At the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Kingston has unveiled a new USB flash drive that has a capacity of 1 terabyte and will be equipped with USB 3.0.

The DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3 will be available in the first quarter and then have the largest capacity currently offered (for the time being is only a 512 GB version delivered).
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Company MCST together with Kraftway released the first batch of pilot monoblock computers architecture “Elbrus”. Computers are designed to be used as office workstations.

Monoblock computer has a motherboard “Monokub.” Fee “Monokub” developed by ZAO MCST hybrid microprocessor “Elbrus-2C +” (dual core Elbrus E2K + 4 DSP firms Elvis ) is intended for widespread use, including in the civilian sector. The company Kraftway, in turn, adapt fee “Monokub” monoblock platform KM4.

Fee “Monokub” form factor miniITX and contains a single processor “Elbrus-2C +.” The board has two slots DIMM DDR2-800 and one slot PCI-Express x16 (used by 8 lines). Upgradeable to 16 GB (using modules with ECC). There are external outputs: Gigabit Ethernet, 4-port USB 2.0, audio, RS-232, DVI. The cooling system is based on heat pipes. (more…)

The new version of the platform for computing on graphics accelerators NVIDIA CUDA 5.0.

New features:

• Dynamic parallelism. Computational threads can dynamically generate new ones.
• Library to GPUs. The new library CUDA BLAS allows the use of dynamic parallelism of third-party libraries.
• GPUDirect - direct communication between GPUs via the PCI-E, including direct access to memory.

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Adapteva, manufacturer of highly integrated CPU solutions, has launched a project on Kickstarter to its know-how in a small development board bring that will provide the equivalent of up to 45 GHz.

Parallella is a stripped down version of the Epiphany multicore chips expected. The Epiphany IV architecture provides processors with 64 cores and a power equivalent of approximately 51 GHz. These chips are installed, among other things by the U.S. Millitär on their boards. In contrast to these high performance chips to Parallella consume a maximum of 5 watts under full load.

Parallella The Board is expected to be a dual-core ARM A9 CPU and the “Epiphany multicore Accelerator” with 16 or 64 cores on a RISC architecture. Further specification includes 1 GB of RAM, a micro SD card, two USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, an HDMI port and two expansion ports.
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The increasing adoption of smartphones and tablets bring private companies into new problems for CIOs and IT executives with him. Market researcher IDC has picked out one that hides behind the term Bring-Your-Own-Device.
There are according to a study by U.S. market research company in Australia and New Zealand about 50 percent of employees in the surveyed companies that would like their own consumer devices such as smart phones used in the company. This so-called Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD short) but requires a scheme, lurking IDC, otherwise security risks and problems in the workflow to work a waste of time.
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Hewlett-Packard expanded its offerings to include new workstation models that can be had with Linux pre-installed.
The new Z workstations use a tower of Xeon processors from Intel E5 and Nvidia Quadro graphics cards. The selection starts with the HP Z420, which accommodates up to 64 GB of RAM and up to 11 terabytes of storage. The device has been designed by the manufacturer for product designers and architects, prices start at 1249 €, including VAT.

The HP Z620 model can accommodate up to 96 GB of RAM and up to 11 terabytes of disk space. It should be available from 1499 €. HP Z820 is the most powerful race car and has the same solid-state disk storage to 1.8 TB. Working memory can be installed up to 512 GB. The price of the computer for demanding computing applications will start at 1899 €.
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Today was updated branch 295.x proprietary video drivers nvidia. The new version of the number 295.20 is declared stable and is recommended for everyday use. It supports work with the latest versions of the Linux kernel and a graphical X-server.

List of changes:

• Added support for maps Tesla X2090;
• fixed a bug that caused the appearance of black spots in the background while working with some models of Maya;

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