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The fast boot is one of the main features that the new Windows 8 platform arrives with, but it can also be seen as one of its greatest weaknesses from a certain point of view. Windows 8 can boot faster than any previous versions of the platform, that’s a fact. With help from devices that have been designed sp... |
23 May 2012
05:13 GMT |
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As Christmas is coming, this will be the last "BIOS of the day" until Tuesday, most likely. For today, some Asus notebooks and a motherboard, the usual HP notebook BIOSes and new Asrock stuff.Hopefully we get to see new gear before the end of the year. Asrock release new Atom-based boards, with AD2700-ITX being the f... |
23 December 2011
11:17 GMT |
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Ubuntu Hardware Summit took place on December 8th, at the Grand Victoria Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan. There, Canonical took the time to launch a new website and to speak about what's to come in the Ubuntu future, over the next two years. The new website promoted by Canonical, odm.ubuntu.com, is designed to help devi... |
13 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Q4 has brought a nice breakthrough in the world of PC BIOS: the eye-candy UEFI version, a very neat 3D GUI which seems to fill the gap between the unexperienced user and the – until now – rather abstract, and even scary BIOS screen.The new 3D BIOS from Gigabyte can run in two modes: the 3D and the Advance... |
16 November 2011
07:25 GMT |
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Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is taking place these days (October 31st - November 4th) in Orlando, Florida, USA.Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is scheduled for release on April 26th, 2012. As you know, Ubuntu 12.04 will be a 5-year LTS (Long Term Support) release, therefore we believe that the fol... |
2 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: openSUSE 12.1 RC1, m23 rock 11.4, Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.10.26 and CAELinux 2011. In other news: Linus Torvalds announced the final and stable release of Linux kernel 3.1; Google released the final and stable version of the Google Chrome 15 web... |
29 October 2011
19:01 GMT |
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Red Hat and Canonical, both announced a few minutes ago, October 28th, on a short press release that it published a white paper called UEFI Secure Boot Impact on Linux.The companies are also collaborating with The Linux Foundation, in order to make hardware manufacturers think twice before implementing the new "Secur... |
28 October 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Users will be in full control of their PCs and will be able to install any operating system they want, Microsoft stressed, ending the controversy over the possibility that Windows 8 machines with UEFI Secure Boot could lock out third-party platforms. Not the case, the software giant says.
Tony Mangefeste, from Mi... |
23 September 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Although he acknowledges that there’s nothing to panic about yet, Matthew Garrett, mobile Linux developer at Red Hat, posted a blog post designed to raise some concerns over the possibility that Linux might be locked out from Windows 8 PCs because of the new UEFI secure boot feature.
One of the new security... |
22 September 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Microsoft might not be ready to share details about theWindows 8-centric BUILD event, but Intel is less shy about its own developer conference.The CPU giant published the list of sessions for the Intel Developer Forum 2011, and it appears that the next generation of Windows will get its fair share of the spotlight. ... |
7 September 2011
11:30 GMT |
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AMD may have slammed the market, regardless of how indirectly and unofficially, with what CPUs it will, or perhaps it would be better to say it won't, release next year, but Intel may also have hit a certain snag, that or its motherboard makers have, or both.
Those who haven't read the recent reports co... |
7 September 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Windows 8 will play nice with the next generation Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) from Phoenix Technologies, the company that created the instant boot BIOS. Phoenix had a presence at the recent Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan where Kelly Wu, VP and general manager of Phoenix Greater China confirmed for... |
10 June 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Windows 8 plays nice not only with next generation hardware, but also with additional enhancements coming with future form factors, delivering unmatched performance, especially in boot scenarios. Case in point: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).A plethora of Windows 8 details were unveiled the past week a... |
6 June 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Gigabyte has just announced the release of a new utility which allows all the company's motherboards that don't feature the Hybrid EFI technology to recognize and use unallocated space on new 3TB and larger hard disc drives, a feat that wasn't previously possible.
The utility adds support for the dr... |
29 March 2011
05:41 GMT |
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With the introduction of the LGA 1155 motherboard line, most major manufacturers have made the switch from the antiquated BIOS to the new UEFI firmware, Gigabyte just letting us know that their boards also support the new EFI standard, the Taiwanese company dubbing this technology Hybrid EFI.
According to a post o... |
27 January 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Customers running the latest versions of Windows client and server on UEFI-enabled machines have reported issues during startup that prevented the computer from booting properly. Microsoft confirmed that, in certain scenarios, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on UEFI-enabled machines would not boot, but instead f... |
15 April 2010
03:35 GMT |
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Over a year ago, Microsoft revealed that it considered 15 seconds the ideal startup time for Windows 7 under laboratory conditions. While 15 seconds was half the time it took Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to boot, some critics pointed that the 15-second boot was a pipe dream. Well, Windows 7 did manage to provid... |
7 October 2009
11:01 GMT |
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