I seem to be pushing a few buttons recently. My last article incensed one anonimati so much that they were moved to actually send me a private email about it.

Joystiq contacted Amanita Design founder Jakub Dvorský for to clarify the situation. "They told us, 'It's not Microsoft-exclusive, we don't want it.' They didn't cite the Mac and Linux versions [as reasons for the refusal] but it's quite clear that's the reason," Dvorský told Joystiq via email.

Beta 2 was released six days ago. I installed it yesterday on a spare drive in my secondary desktop system to check it out. The test hardware is an HP rp5700 Core 2 Duo with 6GB RAM; I installed the 64-bit version of the beta.

File-system benchmarks have become quite common to Phoronix in the age of EXT4 and Btrfs with these new file-systems driving much of the interest and as we have also been finding the Linux file-system performance to change between kernel releases. This time around we are using a Git snapshot of the Linux 2.6.34 kernel.

With NVIDIA having announced the GeForce GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards (formerly known as "Fermi") at the end of March and these graphics cards starting to appear at Internet retailers (see links below), NVIDIA has now put out its OpenGL 4.0 Linux driver.

But this book was different. I'm a picky reader, but found that once I got going with Raymond's tome it was hard to put down.

We think that it's important for developers and system administrators to be more knowledgeable about the attacks that black hats regularly use to take control of systems, and so, today, we're going to start from where we left off and go all the way to a working exploit for a NULL pointer dereference in a toy kernel module.

The Linux Foundation today announced that LG Electronics is its newest member. LG will participate in the Linux Foundation’s events and community development efforts.