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After the kernel-side AMD Berlin APU support was merged for the Linux 3.12 while the user-space Mesa Gallium3D and Radeon X.Org driver support was just merged on Friday evening for this first HSA APU.

We announced Glare to you previously with some excellent looking screenshots and now the developers have sent in a video of the game in action, and it's looking good.

In an interesting change of events, the mainline Intel Linux graphics driver has reverted the patch to support XMir -- the X11 compatibility layer for the Mir Display Server in Ubuntu Linux.

Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.18 has been released, this is a maintenance release that comes to fixe many important bugs.

Support was committed to Mir on Friday for handling Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) so that monitors will be able to enter down their power-down/sleep state...

If you are a Linux system administrator, monitoring log files on a server host will be one of your daily routines. The tail command comes in handy as you can monitor a log file in real-time. This tutorial describes how to tail multiple files at once in Linux, by using a command-line tool called multitail.

The "Ilo" driver that began targeting Sandy/Ivy Bridge graphics support on the Gallium3D architecture in mainline Mesa now has initial support for Haswell graphics...

The developers of Game Dev Tycoon have finally detailed the actual reason on why the Linux version isn't yet on Steam and isn't as up to date as the Windows and Mac versions.

Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 Beta 1 has been released. Ubuntu GNOME (formerly Ubuntu GNOME Remix) is an official flavor of Ubuntu, featuring the GNOME desktop environment. It is intended as a mostly pure GNOME desktop experience built from the Ubuntu repositories.

Ranger is an ncurses based command line file manager that is capable of previewing files and opening them with default programs.

Samsung unveiled its first smartwatch at IFA in Berlin this week. Although the Galaxy Gear reportedly runs a customized Android OS, the device serves as a remote Bluetooth accessory to a paired Samsung smartphone or tablet, and cannot independently access Internet content or services. The Galaxy Gear runs a customized Android 4.3 OS on an […]

Now that we know the name of the upcoming Fedora 20 Linux operating system, we can learn more about its release schedule, because we are so eager to test both Alpha and Beta versions, before the final release is out.

At a PC Gaming World talk at PAX Prime 2013 some big name game developers talk down about DirectX and talk up OpenGL, great stuff and the video is within!

It is important to measure power consumption in operating system especially when you try to maximize the battery life of your laptop, or reduce the energy bill of rack-mounted servers in a data center. This tutorial describes how to monitor power usage in Linux operating system.

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments ... The move by Google is among the most concrete signs yet that recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance efforts have provoked significant backlash within an American technology industry that U.S. government officials long courted as a potential partner in spying programs.

The Xen Project User Summit is just days away, with a strong lineup of speakers, including a featured talk from Greg Kroah-Hartman.

I'm currently working on what I believe are several significant new NSA stories, to be published imminently here, as well as one very consequential story about NSA spying in Brazil that will first be broadcast Sunday night on the Brazilian television program Fantastico (because the report has worldwide implications, far beyond Brazil, it will be translated into English and then quickly published on the internet).

But Soverain actually had one final trick up its sleeve—a desperate attempt to pull victory from the jaws of defeat that was, in Cheng's telling, effectively based on a typographical error. The appeals court had invalidated claim 34 of the "shopping cart" patent, not claim 35. Instead of allowing what Newegg said was a mistake to be corrected, Soverain tried to literally make a federal case out of it. The patent company asked for a re-hearing from the panel, as well as from the full "en banc" court, saying that after months and months of arguing with Newegg over the value and validity of claim 34, it was actually claim 35 that should have been considered all along.

Among the ARM changes for the mainline Linux 3.12 kernel is adding platform support for the Allwinner A20 and A31 SoCs along with continued work on NVIDIA's Tegra 4 support...

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 high quality open source Linux presentation software.