Years Later, Mainline Linux Supports Nokia’s N900 Modem
The Nokia N900 smartphone launched in 2009 and for a time was quite popular with Linux enthusiasts, now has a modem driver within the mainline Linux kernel… Phoronix
View ArticlePhoronix Turns Ten Years Old, PTS Turns Six Years Old
It was on this day ten years ago that I founded Phoronix.com for what would become the leading Linux hardware review and Linux enthusiast news site with a focus on benchmarking. This day, 5 June, also...
View ArticlePhoronix Test Suite 5.2 Release Marks Six Years Of Open-Source Benchmarking
Phoronix Test Suite 5.2-Khanino is now available as the latest quarterly update to the open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software for Linux, BSD, Windows, Solaris, and OS X platforms with...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Linux Stories Of The Past 10 Years
With today marking the tenth birthday of Phoronix.com and sixth birthday of the Phoronix Test Suite, here’s some statistics about the most popular covered Linux stories over the past decade!.. Phoronix
View ArticlePhoronix By The Numbers Over Ten Years
With yesterday marking the tenth birthday of Phoronix and sixth birthday of the Phoronix Test Suite, here are some more statistics on serving the open-source and Linux communities over the past decade…...
View ArticleThe X Window System Turns 30 Years Old Today
It was on this day 30 years ago that the X Window System was first announced… Phoronix
View ArticleCelebrating 30 Years of the X Windows System
What it was like to develop “open source software” before it even had a name LXer Linux News
View ArticleFrom zero to Spark Core in two years
Spark is a company inspired by Zach Supalla’s deaf feather. “My dad has lights in his house that flash when someone rings the doorbell. I wanted to make lights that would flash when my mom texted him,...
View ArticleWhy OpenStack matters, celebrating four years, and more
Interested in keeping track of what’s happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for what’s happening right now in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read...
View ArticleX.Org Server 1.17 Is Planned For A New Year’s Release
While X.Org Server 1.16 was just released, Keith Packard has already laid out his plans for X.Org Server 1.17… Phoronix
View ArticleSlackware Turns 21 Years Old
It was on this day in 1993 that Patrick Volkerding announced the Slackware 1.00 release that was inspired by the Softlanding Linux System… Phoronix
View ArticleTwo Years With Debian GNU/Linux – An Average Guy’s Verdict
One uneducated Linux enthusiast with basic needs’ take on using Debian Wheezy as his everyday OS for a few years, with some notes on KDE as well. LXer Linux News
View Article30 Years of Windows and Not Fixing the Obvious
You would think that after 30 years of Windows, many of the obvious and consistent flaws would be fixed. Are they unfixable? Or are the people at Microsoft who can fix them uninterested? LXer Linux News
View ArticleAfter years of hype, patent troll Vringo demolished on appeal
Vringo’s win over Google was one of the biggest and most public jury wins for a “patent troll” in recent years. It won $ 30 million from a jury verdict in 2012, far less than the half-billion-dollar...
View ArticleLinux Turns 23 Years Old Today
It was on this day in 1991 that Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system that would go on to become Linux… Phoronix
View ArticleLinux 3.17-rc2 Release Celebrates 23 Years Of Linux
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.17-rc2 kernel this afternoon in marking this day 23 years ago is when he announced the project… Phoronix
View ArticleGoogle changes stance on net neutrality four years after Verizon deal
Four years ago, Google teamed up with Verizon to argue that most network neutrality rules should not apply to cellular networks. The companies got much of what they wanted, with the Federal...
View ArticleCUPS Turn 15 Years Old, CUPS 2.0 Released
CUPS 2.0 has finally been released in marking the fifteen years the project has been around with what was originally referred to as the Common Unix Printing System… Phoronix
View ArticleFormer Valve/VOGL Dev: OpenGL Next Could Take 3+ Years
Rich Geldreich, one of the original Valve Linux team members who started work on their VOGL OpenGL debugger, thinks it will take three years or more before the next-generation OpenGL materializes for...
View ArticleThe beginning of the people’s Web: 20 years of Netscape
In 1994, only geeks, techies and nerds were using the Web, and then along came Netscape and nothing would be the same. LXer Linux News
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