Dropbox over proxy

If you're want to install dropbox on linux and you access internet through a proxy it's not a straightforward task. After downloading and installing application from dropbox main page it will try to download a proprietary daemon and will fail although you have set http_proxy environment variable. The solution found in the dropbox forums. You just need to manually download and unpack the latest but not stable version.

CUDA Linux

Some Japanese company called Fixstars have released Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for CUDA. I was amazed by this topic wandering what it could be in fact. I was imaging that Linux core computationally intensive operations accelerated by GPU etc. So what is it all about:

Key benefits of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for CUDA:

• YDEL for CUDA users can experience up to a 9% performance improvement in some applications.
• Comprehensive support is offered to paid subscriptions with our skilled team able to assist you with both Linux and CUDA.
• YDEL's unparalleled integrations means everything you need to write and run CUDA applications is included and configured.
• YDEL includes multiple versions of CUDA and can easily switch between them via a setting in a configuration file or an environment variable.
• Never worry about updates affecting your system, Fixstars offers YDEL users greater reliability with our strenuous test procedures that validate GPU computing functionality and performance.

So it's not about speeding up kernel, or something but rather Linux with convinient pack of
drivers, toolboxes, SDK's and addons helping developers to write and test CUDA programs.