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Today we are proud to launch a new Mozilla Webmaker app to the world. Meet Thimble, the new tool that makes it incredibly simple for anyone to create and share their own web pages and other projects in minutes. Thimble … Continue reading

While the process to transfer the leadership of the Mandriva distribution into a non-profit foundation continues, the developers have released a first technology preview of Mandriva 2012

Cheese the webcam Gnome’s application that was written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx is under a new design development. Yet another Gnome App that it might get cloud support?

A new a customized build of Unity is now available that adds missing features to back to the Unity Shell.

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Shutter is a free and open-source screenshot program that offers advanced capturing, sharing and editing abilities. It stands out for its feature richness and editing power that will save you time jumping from one application to the other, and adds professional look, or artistic style to your screenshots!

After being in development for many years, the xf86-video-nouveau X.Org DDX driver finally saw its first release and it is version 1.0...

MapR is now available on Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service, albeit an older version than the newly released MapR 2.0

Patches emerged last week for supporting the GL_ARB_base_instance OpenGL extension within Mesa and Gallium3D's Mesa state tracker. This OpenGL extension was only conceived last year and became part of the specification with OpenGL 4.2...

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the month of May 2012.

Look out C++, the Years of the Snake are upon you Open... and Shut The enterprise, long the stodgy bastion of mainframes, Oracle databases, and Windows servers, is starting to look a lot more like the consumer technology companies that eschew it.…

During today's FESCo meeting, the engineering and steering committee approved a number of new features for Fedora 18, a.k.a. the Spherical Cow...

In March 2012, version 3.3 of the Linux kernel was released (followed in by version 3.4 in May). In addition to a plethora of small features and bug fixes, several important changes have arrived with these releases, including the merging of the Google Android project; merging of the Open vSwitch; several networking improvements (including the teaming network device); and a variety of file system, memory management, and virtualization updates. Explore many of the important changes in versions 3.3 and 3.4, and have a peek at what's ahead in 3.5.

The open-source Radeon DRM/KMS driver in the mainline kernel beginning with the Linux 3.5 release will finally provide support for HDMI audio on the Radeon HD 6000 "Northern Islands" graphics cards...

A high-availability stack serves one purpose: through a redundant setup of two or more nodes, ensure service availability and recover services automatically in case of a problem. Florian Haas explores Pacemaker, the state-of-the-art high-availability stack on Linux.

Lightworks, the high-end non-linear video editor that was open-sourced, is almost ready to finally debut on Linux...

As the business of mapping becomes more competitive and as Open Street Map goes from strength to strength, Glyn Moody looks at the privacy hurdles the mappers will all face and in particular, how it could affect the open source map creators

In this post, I’ll try to provide an overview of the results of the work we’ve done during the Workspace sprint in Pineda de Mar, Catalunya, Spain. The sprint is still going on, unfortunately I had to leave early to attend a friend’s wedding. ...

Activities central: One focus that we have been working on in Plasma quite extensively is organising your documents, contacts, applications, files and other digital assets into Activities. Activities provide a contextual way of organising your devices. Activities usually enclose these resources into personal context which might include locations, contacts, documents and any other resource we’re able to express in terms of semantics. (So pretty much all. :)) ...

The Zorin OS Team are proud to release the Zorin OS 6 Core and Ultimate, the latest version of our operating system designed for Windows users and those who are dissatisfied with the Unity and Gnome Shell offerings.

Few days ago was released Nvidia 302.17, the new release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fixes, some of the new added features we find a new option, –restore-original-backup, to nvidia-xconfig. nvidia-xconfig creates a backup of the original X configuration file when modifying an X configuration file