Started 2 weeks, 5 days ago (2009-11-30 05:54:00)
by kraftman
From the
OpenSolaris forum:
Quote:
The system automatically boots into 64/32 bit mode depending on CPU probe done at boot.
How did you make to run its kernel in 32 bit mode? Some bootline option?
Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-12-09 22:04:00)
by grantek
C# now has 4 features!? WOW!
Started 1 week, 6 days ago (2009-12-06 09:10:00)
by XorEaxEax
Quote:
Originally Posted by curaga
Can you explain the difference between "-combine -fwhole-program *.c" and this new -flto? From your explanation it sounds similar.
As I understand it -flto is basically an improved version of '--combine' and that '--combine' will be
deprecated.
Started 1 month, 1 week ago (2009-11-11 04:00:00)
by sturmflut
Can we please stop talking about Reiser himself and focus on the file system?
I doubt that Reiser4 will ever be a part of the
vanilla kernel. The developers already proved on ReiserFS 3.x that they don't care about maintenance afterwards and critical issues (like the Big Kernel Lock) may only be fixed *years* after.
Reiser4 may have some nice features, but they also introduce an ...
Started 2 weeks, 1 day ago (2009-12-04 04:10:00)
by Picander
Quote:
Starting by looking at the CPU usage during the playback of a 1080p H.264 video file, the Linux 2.6.32 kernel had the lowest overall CPU usage when using
X-Video with MPlayer. However, the CPU usage was only less by 2%.
Looks like there is an error! The graph says
2.6.30 = 32.3
2.6.31 = 37.2
2.6.32 = 39.1
Started 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2009-12-01 10:32:00)
by BlackStar
Preemptive snarky comments, Raymond Chen style:
Michael should run his articles through a
spell checker.(*)
GTK is left further and further in the dust and sucks and I wish it would die.
Gnome is not configurable, looks like Windows 98 and has Mono.
With those out of the way, another exciting release of Qt. I was worried that the library would start slipping when it was acquired by ...
Started 2 weeks, 3 days ago (2009-12-01 16:03:00)
by llama
Quote:
Originally Posted by phoronix
VirtualBox 3.1 also brings major performance enhancements for PAE and x86_64 guests when running atop a system with
Intel VT-x or AMD-V processor technology with normal, non-nested paging...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Nzc0OQ
32bit WinXP uses PAE by default (for NX...
Started 1 year, 2 months ago (2008-09-27 21:09:00)
by Jade
Yes, the Reiser4 filesystem has been deliberately sabotaged on occasions. If you use one of Morton's older patches, you are likely to run into trouble,...
See, the Linux Kernel SABOTEURS @
http://www.
phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95 09