Hardware News and Articles

Chipmaker Intel has paid around $900 million for Wind River's know-how in things embedded and mobile.

Dell has announced its XS11-Vx8 server based on VIA Nano U2250 power-saving processors normally used in low-cost netbooks.

Eric Anholt of Intel's Open Source Technology Center has announced Intel GPU Tools 1.0 on the X.org mailing list. The toolset should help driver development for, and error detection of, Intel graphics chips.

Nvidia's proprietary graphic driver 180.29 can, under certain conditions, turn your Fujitsu Celsius H270 notebook into a brick.

The Groklaw legal forum has provided a document under European Commission sponsorship that demonstrates Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior during the last 20 years.

Sun Microsystems is previewing its upcoming MySQL 5.4 and MySQL Cluster 7.0 database products.

Following the news of Oracle's purchase of Sun, we hear a lot about MySQL, OpenOffice and VirtualBox. But Btrfs vs. ZFS is yet another highlight of the takeover.

Florian Effenberger is co-lead of the international OpenOffice.org marketing project. Our sister publication Linux-Community asked him how the deal between Sun and Oracle would affect OpenOffice.