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Seriously, they need to be more specific. When it says Linux is supported, they mean strictly that the hardware supports Linux. The software to configure the hardware does not. Tech support does not. And the hardware defaults to a static IP address that very likely is not accessible with your default route…even though it supports DHCP.
YouTube have announced a beta of HTML5 support. These are broadcasting videos in H.264 format for browsers that understand HTML5's tag. The choice of H.264 is perhaps unsurprising, since that's what Apple's iPhone supports natively (and indeed, is how the YouTube mobile application is rendered). This means that other browsers that don't support H.264 won't be able to render content.
The Xen 4.0 domain 0 where all of the hardware drivers run defaults to the Linux 2.6.31 kernel, which supports the new processors coming out from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, but you can get out on the bleeding edge with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel or step back to the 2.6.18 kernel if you like to be back closer to the pommel.
The latest v0.9.0.21 release of Plex, simply referred to as Plex/Nine, is an almost complete, "from-scratch rewrite" of the library and features the inclusion of a support for hardware-accelerated video decoding
Last evening, January 27th, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) announced a brand-new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary Display Driver for Linux users. ATI Catalyst 10.1 updates the software to version 8.69 and it introduces production support for the Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system from Canonical.
