Recent content by Shining Arcanine

I use Gentoo Linux with 8GB of RAM. I had 4GB, but I could not compile all of my operating system updates in a tmpfs with it, so I went with 8GB and I have been much happier. To be honest, I wish I had 16GB; unfortunately, my motherboard does not support it. Anyway, I have an 80GB Intel X25-M...

Linux desktop environments will need to behave more consistently across various systems before that happens. Compositing issues cause lag and no MBA will accept a system without eye candy. Linux will also need to have office software that focuses not on being a "me too" product by...

The current top site for Linux benchmarks (phoronix.com) does an awful job at interpreting their own results. If Anandtech were to branch out into Linux benchmarking by doing comparisons of Windows versus Linux GPU performance and a few other areas of interest, Phoronix's viewers would likely...

Thankyou for forwarding it. I am glad that there was a way for me to report it.

That is not exactly true. Debian Linux uses precompiled binaries, which are compiled with every feature possible, so it is not actually possible to add exactly what you want unless you compile software, in which case you might as well be using a source-based distribution. At the same time...

It is the winsxs folder7. It stores duplicates of every dll that was installed on your system in case a program might need one and there is no garbage collection mechanism to delete the old ones, so the folder keeps growing. The effect is a feature and attempting to delete things from that...

The short answer is no. The long answer is a philosophical digression into what can theoretically be done to improve the Windows NT kernel and whether or not it is appropriate to modify the kernel to do it. Microsoft made improvements to the kernel in Windows 7 to make it more scalable, so that...

The following blog is hotlinking benchmark results from Anandtech, which I assume is without permission: http://lensfire.blogspot.com/2010/09/entry-level-sandy-bridge-will-end-up.html This affects everyone because it puts additional load on Anandtech's servers, slowing down the site for...

A few years ago, I recall reading an article at either Tech Report or Anandtech that claimed that Intel had investigated what the optimal power management strategy was for a computer processor under load and they found that it was more energy efficient to let the processor run at its maximum...