If you’re anything like me, you’ll be aware that some things are just plain nasty to do in Linux (vs Windows or Mac). I’ve been trying desperately to get my webcam working. I’ve had problems with supported hardware, then issues getting anything to see a supported one, and now I just need usable software.

If you’d like to skip out some of the hard work, check out this article at LinuxPlanet!

From Phoronix

Since publishing our Linux review of the AMD Phenom 9500 on the Spider platform a month ago, we have continued in our investigation of this first AMD desktop quad-core processor that has been very problematic with Ubuntu 7.10 Linux. Fortunately though this support isn’t stagnate and a better picture is painted when using the latest development builds of Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” with the Linux 2.6.24 kernel. Per reader requests, we have carried out additional benchmarks of the Phenom 9500 to compare its 32-bit and 64-bit Linux performance.