http://konstantin.antselovich.com/archives/2005/06/18/linux-kernel-2612/ Nothing revolutionary, just another stable Linux kernel 2.6.12 was relased yesterday. It contains no surprises, but a lot of small changes that lead to a better performance under high load, better memory and process management. As usual, you can grab your fresh copy from www.kernel.org
http://konstantin.antselovich.com/archives/2005/06/18/firefox-104-vs-opera-80-vs-internet-explorer-60/ Till yesterday I was yet another one very happy FireFox user. Recently I started to notice that Firefox leads to very high CPU load when you open a lot of tabs. But yesterday I got the real firefox killer. It came from IBM as information portal for Linux on Power architecture. Everyone is welcome to click on this page http://openpowerproject.org/us/index.php and watch how your CPU load goes through the roof. Lets analize it a bit further. Here are the screen shots of that page opened in Opera and MS IE 6.0 and the third screen shot shows CPU load that Opera and IE take to display that page. (for IE, look at ‘wine-preloader’ process, because I have IE running under wine on Linux.) MS IE 6.0 | Opera 8.0 | ...