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It's just as good as before, and it's rolling-release now too, meaning it's super-good! Yay!

The awesome Wildfire Games have unleashed another Alpha of 0 A.D.

Add your Facebook events to your Google Calendar with a simple extension for the Chrome browser.

If you plan to host databases in the cloud, you should be attuned to platform differences

After presenting this week at XDC2011 Chicago about TimeGraph, an open-source GPU command scheduler, and PathScale's GPGPU run-tiume, Shinpei Kato has now taken to the Nouveau list with his proposal...

Intel released an open source engine for JavaScript that will let the language tap into multi-core CPUs and their vector extensions. Code-named & River Trail,& the Parallel Extensions for JavaScript will extend browser-based apps into new areas, such as photo and video editing, physics simulation, and 3-D gaming, according to the company....

Oracle APEX, HTML5, Force.com Cloud Apps, and CoffeeScript

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) have been natively ported to the Sony PlayStation 3 console...

Prepaid phone provider Boost Mobile announced a mid-range Samsung smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard and a $230 no-contract price tag. The Samsung Transform Ultra runs Android 2.3 on a 1GHz processor, and offers 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, a three-megapixel camera, a front-facing VGA webcam, and Android Market support, the mobile provider says....

Canonical announced that lots of new games, books and magazines will be available in the Ubuntu Software Center for all Ubuntu users.

"OpenIndiana oi_151a has been released, this release comes exactly one year after the first release, oi_147. This build brings a wide variety of enhancements,openindiana including being the first build based on Illumos. Notable changes to the kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana's oi_148 release includes KVM

Making delirious dictators worldwide quake in their boots, the Tails Project recently announced numerous improvements to its anonymity-obsessed Linux distro, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, aka Tails. more>>

On Monday the BBC reported that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been asked to push 1 million euros into development of ReactOS, the open source Windows clone. Evidently, the request came from a student at a high school where the president was visiting.

GNOME Shell is at the very beginning of its long treacherous journey. As we saw in our earlier post, it is now possible to easily install GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot, whose final release is scheduled to happen next month itself. Meanwhile, I have been using GNOME Shell in Ubuntu Oneric beta for sometime now and one thing I am really unhappy about is its default theme. But third party GNOME Shell themes are already pouring in. Here is a collection of top 10 GNOME Shell themes(installation instructions towards bottom of this post).

Aaeon announced a 3.5-inch single board computer (SBC) with dual display support and a touchscreen controller. The GENE-LN05 Rev.B offers a choice of Intel Atom N455 or dual-core, 1.8GHz D525 processors with up to 2GB or 4GB of DDR3 memory, respectively, and features CompactFlash, SATA, gigabit Ethernet, USB, serial, Parallel, and expansion interfaces, says the company....

Hypervisor hammering in the Cloud Foundry VMware's SpringSource unit has released Java tooling making it faster and easier to build big clouds using its parent's Cloud Foundry project.…

The following article is part of a series I’m writing on the various configuration tools available in Fedora 15. Look at the bottom of this article for links to the rest of the series.

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced a few minutes ago, September 16th, the stable release and immediate availability for download of the Google Chrome 14 web browser for Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms.

This week, we explore 10 differences between HTML4 and 5, 4 agile requirements levels and dealing with stupid clients. And as an added bonus, a cartoon from the always brilliant xkcd.

Further to my previous post about Dungeons of Dredmor, Gaslamp Games have now stated Linux support will be in the next version!