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One of the best game engines Unity has been presented yesterday as a preview version. Now the new version of Unity supports Linux apart of Windows, Mac OS X, Android, Wii and other platforms. Furthermore, a new animation system, support for DirectX 11 and Adobe Flash have been added to the game engine.

Since AMD's decision to discontinue HD 2000/3000/4000 series support from the Catalyst driver plus other changes that upset some hardware owners, there's been some rumors that AMD may be discontinuing development of the Catalyst Linux driver and focus solely upon the open-source AMD Linux driver...

Perhaps they'll really imitate Apple and go to Foxconn Analysis If you want a job done right, do it yourself: that’s the consensus on the Windows 8 Surface tablets. Or, put another way: “OEMs, please pay attention. This is how you build a PC.”…

The LLVM compiler infrastructure provides a powerful way to optimize your applications regardless of the programming language you use. Learn to instrument code in LLVM, using the clang API to preprocess C/C+ code in this second article of a two-part series.

RandR 1.5 paired with the latest X.Org Server advancements allows for GPU offloading and USB GPU hot-plugging under Linux. Here are some demos of this technology finally working...

RIFS-ES V1 has been published as a new interactivity favor scheduler for the Linux kernel...

The open source software that powers the popular SourceForge project hosting site has been submitted to the Apache Incubator, the first step to becoming a top-level Apache project

Marketing doesn't always sit that comfortably with the spirit of open source and freedom, but it's something that is severely lacking in the Linux world.

The installer in this technical preview gives you the option to install a KDE desktop (default), a GNOME 3 desktop, LXDE and Other desktop. I hoped to show screen shots from test installations of supported desktop environments, but the GNOME 3 installation was too buggy to use. As a result, only screen shots from the KDE, LXDE and Other desktops are featured.

The rumours of the Unity game engine being ported to Linux have been confirmed true as Unity Technologies opens pre-orders for Unity 4

Linux creator Linus Torvalds may call Nvidia “the single worst company” the Linux community had ever dealt with. But the chipmaker makes no apologies for its approach to the open source operating system.

While Intel's original GMA500 "Poulsbo" hardware is now more than four years old, this Intel Atom platform with PowerVR graphics continues to be a bloody mess under Linux...

In future, developers will be able to deliver JavaFX applications as zip, exe, msi, dmg or rpm native packages, making their applications easier to install and run; however, there are a number of drawbacks to the new delivery mode

Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S III smartphone will be the company's first device to be officially branded and sold under its new SAFE program. SAFE stands for "Samsung Approved for Enterprise." The Galaxy S III will be available in the U.S. from Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular in July.

For those that didn't hear yet, Intel's getting ready to ship the Larrabee-derived "Knights Corner" co-processors and they will be marketed under the name of Xeon Phi...

Last week I shared results from the Phoronix 12-core ARM Linux mini cluster that was constructed out of six PandaBoard ES development boards. Over the weekend, a 96-core ARM cluster succeeded this build. While packing nearly 100 cores and running Ubuntu Linux, the power consumption was just a bit more than 200 Watts. This array of nearly 100 processor cores was even powered up by a solar panel.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is on something of a mission: reducing the grumpiness factor among kernel developers, and maintainers in particular. His keynote at LinuxCon Japan was meant to help the audience understand what the maintainers do, and how contributors' actions can sometimes result in grumpy maintainers. But, if contributors can follow the rules and make things easier on him, there are a number of things that he will promise to do on their behalf.

In Linux Mint 13, when you insert a USB drive into your machine, a popup window will appear to show the files and folders you store in the USB. If you find this popup window annoying, here is how to disable this feature.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 17 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

Microsoft appears to be trying to build a tablet that's IT-friendly, but in the Bring Your Own Device era, users tend to be choosing their own devices, and this could be an outdated strategy.