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The Linux Mint project yesterday unveiled version 15 of the increasingly popular desktop operating system, with upgrades to the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments as well as new applications for managing software and drivers.Code-named “Olivia,” Linux Mint 15 is based on the most recent version of Ubuntu and will be supported until January 2014. Linux Mint 15 is in the Release Candidate stage, with a final release coming later.
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Linux graphics drivers have come a long way in recent years for both the open and closed-source solutions from AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel. In this Sunday article, a Phoronix reader has shared his experiences in going from failing to setup two monitors under Linux just a few years ago with NVIDIA to now successfully driving six monitors on a single system using the AMD Linux driver…
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The open-source AMD Linux graphics driver now boasts support for AMD’s next-generation “Hainan” GPU products, a.k.a. the Radeon HD 8800 series…
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Curious about the top contributors to the open-source Intel Linux kernel driver, Ben Widawsky of Intel’s Open-Source Technology Center did some analysis…
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While the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver already has support for at least 36 variants of Intel’s forthcoming Haswell processors with faster integrated graphics, it turns out some were missing. The reserved PCI IDs weren’t added and it turns out that some products are actually going to be using the IDs.
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