TechRepublic.com has recently published a good read on how prevent linux hardware issues.
1) Don’t use very old or cutting-edge hardware
2) Verify support
3) Use proprietary drivers
4) Know your log files
Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
10 ways to avoid dodge linux hardware issues from TechRepublic
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Earning Money with Opensource and Linux
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010At SGLNX, we’d given tips on how you can save money with opensource and linux by using alternative applications and operating systems that is cost free. It doesn’t take long to realise that if money can be saved using opensource, the knowledge can be used to earn money.
Here are some tips of how we at SGLNX is able to generate some revenue from our ever-growing experience and knowledge of opensource and linux
Opensource Complete Home Entertainment System : XBMC
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
XBMC is a free opensource cross platform media player. It has its origins from the first generation XBOX game console, where XBMC was created as a homebrew media player making use of MPlayer sources as one of its cores. XBMC has since evolved with a huge and continuously growing forum with active discussions happening 24/7.
Its flexibility in allowing add-on scripts and user-created skins has also contributed to its popularity. User-contributed skins such as the “Aeon Stark” made it even more popular in the recent months. Video shown after the break.
Maemo + Moblin = Meego
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Meego is an operating system framework which is collaborated by both Nokia and Intel, combining their efforts from Maemo and Moblin respectively.
It is opensource and a large part of this framework focuses on the user interface, which is mainly large icons with an easy point & click user navigation interface. The outlook of the interface resembles most of what Intel have had for Moblin.
Running Linux on laptops not battery efficient? Check again!
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010On most distros installations, there is a package “laptop-mode” tools included.
The package is meant to ensure power saving features on laptops.
Optimize HD video playback for Nvidia ION in Linux
Thursday, February 11th, 2010The Nvidia ION powered Intel Atom processor netbooks and nettops are the rage these days.
Affordable, lightweight and powerful graphics processor.
The Nvidia ION is actually an Intel Atom CPU coupled with a Nvidia 9400m graphics chipset.
Most linux distributions install fine on most netbooks and nettops. However, their default video player may not be optimized for the Nvidia ION chipsets. For HD video playback, without tweaking the parameters of the video player application, the end result may be lacklustre and the playback may even be not in sync or skipping frames.
Detect monitoring voltage, temperature, fan-rpm sensor values with linux lm-sensors!
Friday, January 15th, 2010What is lm_sensors?
By Wikipedia’s definition of lm_sensors :
lm_sensors (Linux-monitoring sensors), a free open source software-tool for Linux, provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans. It also monitors chassis intrusion detection.
lm-sensors is already included in many popular linux distribution repositories.
For Gnome desktop users, values obtained from the lm_sensors can be placed in the “top panel” by installing “sensors-applet”.
Here is a good “lm-sensors” guide for Ubuntu users to add lm-sensors to your customized installation [ for both Gnome and KDE users ]
For those with bleeding edge hardware, the usual repositories lm-sensors package may not yet support all the latest sensors on their mainboards and graphics card.
However, there has been some new developments in the detection of new yet to be supported sensors that can be installed with a simple script.
More on this lm-sensors update here from Phoronix.
Source: Phoronix
True “Plug-in” Linux Appliance from Marvell!
Monday, January 11th, 2010If only they can pack in a HDMI port… this little baby will be flawless!
2.0 GHz Arm-based processor
Wifi, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Mini-USB port and “Ready to download” Linux 2.6 SDK for developers.
Low power, low price, small form factor
Below is an extract from UberGizmo
[CES 2010] Marvell has just launched its Computer 3.0 platform based on the Armada 300 processor. New the system still uses an ultra-low power and thermal envelope, but manages to reach 2Ghz and includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and built-in 1.8″ hard drive. The overall package is also much smaller (and sexier) than previous generations. Once again the semi-conductor mantra “smaller, better, cheaper” is beautifully applied by Marvell to these tiny computers. Developers can already get their hands on the SDK, and we’ve heard that a number of big-name brands are working on products based on Plug Computer 3.0.
Source : Marvell Plug Computer 3.0.
Other links of same product news
Linuxfordevices : Plug-in computer rev’d with WiFi, 2GHz SoC
LoopyGadgets : Marvell Plug Computer 3.0 with Built-in Wifi and Bluetooth
Avatar the Movie, rendered by Linux!
Monday, January 11th, 2010The computing juice required for creating an epic animated hybrid movie, such as the movie Avatar is exceptional.
In fact, the data centre that was in charge of rendering the visual effects of Avatar, uses up to 4000 blade servers and is positioned at 197 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world we live in today!
The operating system used for such a huge array of blades…
LINUX
Because, nothing else comes close..
News Source : Opendotdotdot
Linux drivers for Broadcom HD Video Accelerator
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Broadcom has recently released its driver source code for their HD Video Accelerator Mini PCI-E card.
Since the launch of this hardware to accelerate HD video playback on netbooks, only Windows drivers were supported.
Just days ago, they decided to release the source code for linux kernels 2.6.11 and higher.
Read the full article at Liliputing.com: Linux drivers for Broadcom HD Video Accelerator
