Archive for March, 2009

Fedora giving FOSS graphics driver “nouveau” a try

BeagleBoard, Dev, Fellowship, Jalimo, Maemo, OpenMoko, March 27, 2009, rschuster

The free and open-source graphics driver for Nvidia graphics cards "nouveau" is going to be tested in the Fedora distribution. I have to say that, as a user, I have some troubles with Fedora right now but this move makes me happy. Even of I do not have this kind ...

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Shark bites ARM

BeagleBoard, Dev, Jalimo, OpenMoko, , rschuster

No this post is not about a tragic accident. It is about the half-way successful attempt to get the Shark JIT compiler, which is funded by Red Hat and developed by Gary Benson as part of the Zero (assembler) port of the Hotspot Java VM, running on devices equipped with ARM ...

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