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A set of Direct Rendering Manager patches have appeared to ease the development of targeting DRM drivers for embedded systems. There's also two new DRM drivers using this SDRM layer...

Syllable, an attempt to write a desktop-focused operating system from scratch using best practices, has notched up a new milestone, with its developers releasing 0.6.7 today.

Today’s interview is with Mark Hall one of the original core developers of the WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) data mining software. Mark currently works at Pentaho Corporation as technical lead for the WEKA project, among other duties. We go into WEKA’s history and a lot of resources for the machine learning enthusiast. Do not miss the video tutorial at the end of the interview. Enjoy!

I know you love robots. Who doesn’t? And if you are technology fan, you just have to adore them. Most robots are simply amazing. While robots are being used in many industries, I think the best use of robots is in the medical field, and the second best just has to be in toys.

The openSUSE Project, through Jos Poortvliet, announced last night, April 12th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the third Milestone release of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 operating system.

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 is now available for download and testing. It was expected to be released last week but there were some delays due to the move to a i686 desktop kernel for 32-bit systems.

Instagram’s back-end is powered by Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal running on EC2

Canonical announced last night, April 12th, on their Ubuntu One blog, that their working hard on a new feature called "Send to Ubuntu One."

The new version comes with a huge list of bug fixes but also a small yet useful feature which completes the Ubuntu Software Center Unity integration: when you click the install button, the application icon "flies" from the Ubuntu Software Center to the Unity launcher using an animation. Also, the launcher icon wiggles when the installation finishes.

I found out how to install and use Compiz 0.8.6 in MATE in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot", and I'm using a different GTK+ theme now. So now I have my old desktop back, for real this time!

Linux Tycoon, which the developer claims to be the “worlds premier Linux Distribution Building Simulation Game”, is getting some pretty big improvements in the near future. Not the least of which is a version for Android and iOS, as well as real-time online gameplay.

Canonical announced last evening, April 12th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available, fixing four security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.

Firefox developers are considering making web plugins like Adobe Flash an opt-in feature. A very early version of the “click-to-play” option for plugins is now available in the Firefox nightly channel. Whether or not the click-to-play approach that Mozilla is considering will ever become the default behavior for Firefox remains to be seen.

FUD is a lot like commodity open source software. It just keeps moving up the stack. A decade ago, the FUD was all about operating systems and database software. Now? It's migrated up to the cloud stack. FUD may be mobile, but it hasn't gotten any prettier.

Google tried retail once with a Google branded Nexus One phone and failed miserably, but instead of learning from that experience, it's going to try another shot at retail -- this time selling Android tablets. What makes it think it will get different results?

The first development release of Phoronix Test Suite 4.0-Suldal is now available. There's some exciting features met in this first milestone that will please those using this open-source automated testing infrastructure if you're using it for benchmarking or if you're just a Phoronix.com reader of our many published benchmark results...

The open-source ARM Mali graphics driver, known as the the Lima project, has achieved a major milestone...

Being discussed following the Ubuntu 12.04 Desktops Impact Performance, Power Consumption was the impact that KDE's KWin compositing window manager (and others that don't redirect fullscreen windows by default) has on the OpenGL gaming performance...

This article describes two instances where open source is making an impact. It clearly has potential to improve the quality of our lives.

Verizon's new HomeFusion LTE fixed wireless Internet service opens up interesting opportunities in rural areas for Bohemians and makers. The FOSS and maker culture overlap a lot, too.