Ryan passed this along early this morning (really early for Ryan, seeing that we’re not even in the double digits of the morning hours!), and while this issue is only likely to affect a very small subset of users, anything that can completely brick a laptop in a matter of seconds is worrisome enough that we wanted to pass it along. File this one under the "things that should never happen" category. You can read more of what is known at H-Online, but the short summary is this: Samsung’s UEFI implementation appears to be faulty. It was most likely tested with Windows only and found to work, but thorough testing with other operating systems doesn’t appear to have been a priority—or perhaps a consideration at...

Canonical Brings Ubuntu To Televisions

Canonical, a services and software company that backs open-source projects like Ubuntu, recently announced they would be moving to compete in the Smart TV space. The project, called Ubuntu...

3 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012

Humble Indie Bundle 4 Available

The Humble Indie Bundle team today launched the pay-what-you-want Humble Indie Bundle 4 just in time for the holidays - the bundle included WIndows, OS X, and Linux versions...

14 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/13/2011

Game Review: Minecraft (PC)

Minecraft, the world building game from independent developer Mojang, finally came out of a lengthy beta last week. It's difficult to adequately review a game that has been playable...

20 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/21/2011

Mozilla Developing Open Web Mobile OS

The developers at Mozilla have been busy; Firefox 8 is just around the corner and now they seem to be developing an experimental mobile operating system. They're calling it...

18 by Amman Sood on 11/7/2011

Ubuntu 11.10 Released

Canonical has just released the latest version of Ubuntu, 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, to end users. Most prominent among its new features are upgrades to the Unity interface, the new...

32 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/13/2011

Canonical Releases Windows Client for Ubuntu One Cloud Storage Service

Ubuntu One, the cloud storage service available for Ubuntu versions 9.04 and higher, now has an official Windows client. Previously available as a beta, Ubuntu One for Windows gives...

10 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/30/2011

Firefox 7.0 Released

Has it already been six weeks since Firefox 6.0 was released? Apparently so, since Firefox 7.0 has just been made available for Windows, OS X, and Linux users to...

23 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/27/2011

Flash Player 11 in Early October, Says Adobe

Flash Player 11, the next major version of Adobe's near-ubiquitous browser plug-in, is now officially set for release in early October, the company said in a press release today...

31 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/21/2011

ZFS - Building, Testing, and Benchmarking

Click to enlarge If you are in the IT field, you have no doubt heard a lot of great things about ZFS, the file system originally introduced by Sun in...

105 by Matt Breitbach on 10/5/2010

The Family Proxy

Do you have a growing family at home slowly eating away at your bandwidth? Maybe you're a web surfing fanatic looking for a little more speed? If you answered...

97 by Christopher Rice on 5/11/2010

Linux Gaming: Are We There Yet?

Can you actually play Windows games on Linux? That's what we seek to find out. Talk about opening a can of worms!

127 by Christopher Rice on 12/28/2009

Revisiting Linux Part 1: A Look at Ubuntu 8.04

After a long delay, it's time to revist Linux. To start things off, we look at at Ubuntu 8.04, the latest Long Term Stable release of the popular operating...

197 by Ryan Smith on 8/26/2009

Dual Core Linux Performance: Two Penguins are Better than One

We got our hands on some of the new dual core processors from AMD and Intel and put them in a high performance Linux rig was exactly what the...

70 by Kristopher Kubicki on 7/1/2005

Linux and the Desktop Pentium M: Uncommon Performance

We received a brand new 2.1GHz Dothan with a desktop motherboard and put them through their paces against the Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 processors.

51 by Kristopher Kubicki on 12/24/2004

Revisiting Linux GPUs: Playing the Driver Game

NVIDIA and ATI have warmed up to the idea of Linux gamers, but are the new driver wars enough to make them competitive?

23 by Kristopher Kubicki on 12/17/2004

The AnandTech Linux XBOX PC Experiment

Interested in turning a few extra XBOXes into a modular render farm? Maybe just a $200 PC for surfing the web? There is quite a bit of...

31 by Kristopher Kubicki on 11/10/2004

Doom3 Linux and Windows Battlegrounds

Today, we take a look at the biggest Linux game to date, how it performs on various hardware configurations and how it compares to its Windows counterpart.

36 by Kristopher Kubicki on 10/13/2004

Linux 3D AGP GPU Roundup: More Cutting Edge Penguin Performance

We continue to take our testing to the edge with Linux GPU benchmarks. You saw the release of AnandTech's benchmark utility last week; now see it in action.

31 by Kristopher Kubicki on 10/4/2004

Building a Better (Linux) GPU Benchmark

Can we build a better mousetrap? Delve into the minds of AT developers working to develop clearer, concise benchmarks. It all starts with some Linux...

24 by Kristopher Kubicki on 9/24/2004

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