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Just one week after doing the first public beta release of SteamOS, Valve Software has released the second beta public ISO image. This new release has various package updates and fixes, including graphics driver work.

Mozilla developers continue to optimize everything they can with ASM.js to deliver the greatest performance possible inside Firefox.

The GNOME developers have announced recently yet another development release towards Eye of GNOME 3.12, the default image viewer application for the upcoming GNOME 3.12 desktop environment.

Beyond the Zenbook Prime SSD tests, some more performance data to share this Sunday from the ASUS UX32 ultrabook is of the battery power consumption when running some NVIDIA Optimus Linux tests and kernel comparisons.

Here are some tweaks I used on Ubuntu 12.04.

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 16 “Petra” KDE.

My final target was to create two node oVirt 3.3.2 cluster and virtual machines using replicated glusterfs 3.4.1 volumes based on XFS formatted partitions. Choice of IPv4 firewall with iptables for tuning cluster environment and synchronization is my personal preference. Now I also know that postgres requires enough shared memory allocation like Informix or Oracle

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 16 “Petra” Xfce.

Secrets of Rætikon is an atmospheric, open-world, 2D exploration game set in the romantic wilderness of the Alps. Fly through savage mountains, encounter wild animal tribes and discover the secrets of an ancient culture.

Gummiboot 41 was released this weekend with new features and was followed immediately by Gummiboot 42 to correct the build system for this open-source simple UEFI boot manager...

Microlinux Enterprise Desktop 14.1 MATE is another lightweight production desktop, based on Slackware 14.1 and the MATE desktop environment with many enhancements. It sports a complete choice of neatly integrated applications, one per task.

Valve has released a couple of days ago, December 19, a new build of its SteamOS gaming Linux operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux, bringing updated Intel drivers, as well as many other interesting features that were missing from the initial build of the distro.

The GNOME developers announced a few days ago the third development version towards the GNOME Online Accounts 3.12 package, which will be part of the upcoming GNOME 3.12 desktop environment.

For this weekend benchmarking of LLVM/Clang 3.4, testing is just being done from a single system and comparing just the LLVM/Clang/Compiler-RT 3.3 release against a SVN snapshot of the LLVM 3.4 branch with Clang and Compiler-RT. When LLVM 3.4 is officially declared as stable, more benchmarks will be coming on Phoronix and reference compiler performance benchmarks against GCC, etc. It's a cycle that comes every six months at Phoronix with major LLVM updates.

The GNOME Project has announced recently that a new development release towards the Epiphany 3.12 web browser that will be part of the upcoming GNOME 3.12 desktop environment is now available for download and testing.

Sabayon 14.01 is a modern and easy-to-use Linux distribution based on Gentoo, following an extreme, yet reliable, rolling-release model. This is a monthly release generated, tested and published to mirrors by our build servers containing the latest and greatest collection of software available in the Entropy repositories. Linux Kernel 3.12.5 with BFQ iosched, updated external ZFS file system support, GNOME 3.10.3, KDE 4.11.4, Xfce 4.10.

Last week when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 was released I was already running RHEL7 benchmarks looking at the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 over RHEL 6.5. In this article for some extra benchmarks to put out over the weekend is a quick comparison of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in its current development state against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1.

While we're mid-way through the Linux 3.13 kernel development cycle and the Linux 3.12 kernel has been out for almost two months, the Reiser4 file-system is finally available for this latest stable kernel release series.

I was searching for lightweight collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) to manage some small websites and while searching around I found Citadel. Citadel is a complete and feature-rich open source groupware platform.

Microlinux Enterprise Desktop 14.1 Xfce has been released.