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Intel Ends The Confusion
Intel finally has seen the right direction and decided to simplify the confusing naming conventions for the CPU’s. The naming will tell more about the level of the products and the average consumers won’t need any extra knowledge anymore.
Intel still going to keep Pentium which refers to “trustworthy” and Celeron which is cheap price with an average performance and they are going to keep Atom processor name for internet based computers. In future, you would not be able to find Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Solo or Core 2 Quad processor in the market. All of these will be given a common name as Core 2 Processor. So the new names will be Core 2 i3, i5 and i7. i3 means beginner level, i5 for medium level and i7 for upper level.
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First Support From Linux
According to Sarah Sharp who is writing on her own blog; The initial support for USB 3.0 drivers is now available at her own kernel.org git tree. and the patches are queued for 2.6.31. That means we are going to have the official support latest on September 2009 which is a great timing because NEC announced that they will be producing 1 million USB 3.0 cards in September so Linux is going to be the first operating system that supports USB 3.0.
To see Sarah Sharp’s Blog.
Bug Hunting Ends
The Bug Hunting competition has now ended.
The roster now stands as follows:
- Rahil Bedretdin: 4 valid bug reports
- Jason Brower: 2 valid bug reports
- Virgil Mocanu: 1 valid bug report
Despite the competition ending, we’ll still welcome any reports of bugs you find.
The winners will be contacted once we have their prizes ready for collection.
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Bug Hunting competition
The bug hunting competition is open!
What are bugs?
- Invalid XHTML/CSS
- Typos or bad grammar
- Things that just don’t work
Please report the bugs on our Lighthouse page.
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Prizes will be awarded to those who report the most bugs.