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05-23-2013, 12:58 AM

Ericg replied to a thread Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No Longer Fit in Processors & Memory

When I took this measure, htop was reporting about ~812mb of RAM used, of 3277 total, so it was saying about 2,465mb free. $ free -m ...

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05-23-2013, 12:40 AM

Ericg replied to a thread Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

What are you talking about ultima? Btrfs never had the goal, nor the idea to beat Ext4 on pure performance. It was the filesystem to handle...

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05-22-2013, 10:03 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Wayland's Weston Gets Output Scaling Support in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Sooooo... a game that is set to run at 800x600 could take up the fullscreen still instead of just the ACTUAL 800 by 600 pixels?

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05-22-2013, 02:11 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No Longer Fit in Processors & Memory

I'm just reading off the number from htop at the top, so if it automatically pulls out cache & buffers-- then yes. As good with linux as I have...

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05-22-2013, 02:06 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Chrome 27 Loads Web Pages Faster in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

There's a 300MB difference in RAM between the same windows opened in Firefox and the same windows open in Chrome (firefox is at 1400 and Chrome is at...

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05-22-2013, 02:03 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Meaning...what, exactly? o.O Whats more 'filesystem-y' than a symbolic link?

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05-22-2013, 12:41 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Portal, Starcraft 2, Team Fortress 2 and WoW all work just fine on my Sandy Bridge laptop so idk what you're talking about Curaga (medium to high...

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05-22-2013, 12:28 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

From the BTRS wiki.... Personal experience? From using it since it was first available in Fedora and Arch... Yes. I'm using it right now on...

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05-21-2013, 10:12 PM

Ericg replied to a thread New Intel X.Org Driver Supports All Of Haswell in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

You fail to realize just how inferior the entire graphics stack is on Linux compared to Windows.. The Intel driver JUST got the ability to be used...

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05-21-2013, 04:08 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Microsoft Releases Skype For Linux 4.2, Has Bug-Fixes in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Thanks dstaub :)

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05-21-2013, 03:39 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Qt For Tizen Launches, Based On Qt 5.1 in Mobile Linux

Haven't there been rumours of Samsung pushing Tizen in the future because theyre tired of being Google's B*tch with Android?

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05-21-2013, 03:16 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Microsoft Releases Skype For Linux 4.2, Has Bug-Fixes in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

And yes guys, I know that MS can at least partially decrypt messages. I read the article. But the article even mentions itself that its not sure what...

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05-21-2013, 01:51 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No Longer Fit in Processors & Memory

Htop says: 1496mb of RAM used, of 3277MB available Arch x64, KDE 4.10.3, firefox open with 7 tabs (3 are active thanks to Unload--...

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05-21-2013, 01:44 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No Longer Fit in Processors & Memory

Whats your processor? How much RAM?

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05-21-2013, 01:33 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Microsoft Releases Skype For Linux 4.2, Has Bug-Fixes in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Pretty much, maybe not encrypted (it could probably be done, just i dont think mandated by the standard), maybe not screensharing, but voice calls?...

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05-21-2013, 09:47 AM

Ericg replied to a thread FreeBSD Still Working On Next-Gen Package Manager in BSD, Mac OS X, Hurd & Others

Reaper, civil tongue, remember? "Kids with down syndrome," "bsd fucks"--> not civil. We get that you dont like BSD but you can still be respectful...

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05-21-2013, 01:27 AM

Ericg replied to a thread FreeBSD Still Working On Next-Gen Package Manager in BSD, Mac OS X, Hurd & Others

I'm a little upset at how much nicer the pkgng code looks compared to the apt-get sources >.> Maybe apt-get could use a good spring cleaning &...

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