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The XBMC media center software has been ported so it can run directly on the Mir Display Server...

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It seems Canonical is making it a habit of tagging new versions of the Mir Display Server on a weekly basis. Mir 0.0.8 is out this week with a handful of changes over v0.0.7.

While it shouldn't come as a surprise given the recent (accurate) leaks on the device, but Google unveiled today a new ASUS-manufactured Nexus 7 tablet. The new Nexus 7 has a higher resolution display and is powered by the just-announced Android 4.3 operating system.

While we have published many Linux articles about Intel Haswell since the debut of the processors a month and a half ago, coming out now are our first benchmarks of the Microsoft Windows 8 performance against Ubuntu 13.10 Linux when using an Intel Core i7 4770K processor with HD Graphics 4600. Past Phoronix benchmarks have shown the Intel OpenGL performance to be superior on Windows over the Intel open-source Linux driver, but is this the case for Haswell?

Today in Open Source: Time for the distro wars to end? Plus: Ubuntu's Edge, and Android 4.3

A Linux Foundation executive revealed that the 2014 Toyota Lexus IS is the second major automobile to offer an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system based on Linux. Meanwhile, ABI Research projects that Linux will quickly grow to represent 20 percent of automotive computers by 2018, pulling closer to Microsoft behind industry-leading QNX.

The Federal Trade Commission today issued the Final Order in its action against Google involving that company’s assertion of certain “standards essential patents” (SEPs).

If you haven’t heard yet, Source Fire is being bought by Cisco for ~$2.7b. While I love Source Fire and their product line, Cisco leaves a sour taste in my mouth. With that said, I decided to write a series of articles talking about Suricata. That wonderful program that will no doubt gain a lot of traction in the IDS/IPS community since the eventual end of Source Fire is coming along.

This is good for us on the penguin farm. It only strengthens our argument that Linux is more secure than the other brands. In Linux, there are no secret back doors. Your computer won’t secretly call it’s handlers at the NSA to file a report on you. If you’re really paranoid and don’t trust the binaries supplied by your distro, afraid they’ve slipped in something nefarious that’s not in the code you’ve seen, go ahead and compile from source. It’ll be a lot of work, but if it makes you sleep better at night, go for it.

Legends of Aethereus the Kickstarted RPG game has been officially release now along with many new versions over the past few months and it's looking good!

There's a revolution under way in the way documents are managed, reports Mike Vizard. Open-source platforms are rapidly replacing a host of proprietary systems as part of the rise of NoSQL databases in the enterprise. And that's bringing in more open source across the business.

There is Shutter and Deepin Scrot, both of which come with image editing features. In that aspect, they are better than the previous two. Deepin Scrot is from the developers of Linux Deepin, a distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop. And here comes HotShots. What does it look like and what can you do with it, other than take screen shots? Let me show you.

Indie videogame designer Nick Liow launched the Open Game Art Bundle in June this year. It was a simple idea: independent videogame designers contribute game assets—animations, soundtracks, character designs—and customers can pay any price they want to access them. Nick describes it as a sort of cross between Kickstarter and Humble Bundle, and like Humble Indie Bundle, the income is split between the developers themselves and charities (including Creative Commons). But there was one big twist: if the bundle reached its goal of $10,000 by July 15, all assets would become public domain under the CC0 public domain declaration.

The next portion of the kernel that is configured is the IRQ subsystem. An Interrupt ReQuest (or IRQ) is a signal from the hardware to the processor to temporarily stop a running program and allow a special program to execute in its place.

It looks like Ubuntu Edge will reach the $32 million goal that Mark Shuttleworth set to begin building the hybrid smartphone PC. But will it have a market? Could it replace the traditional PC?

Richard Stallman’s suggestion for people who want to compromise on the issue of firmware.

NSA chief Keith Alexander said his agency had implemented a "two-man rule," under which any system administrator like Snowden could only access or move key information with another administrator present. With some 15,000 sites to fix, Alexander said, it would take time to spread across the whole agency.

Samsung continues to signal it intends to blanket the mobile operating system landscape just in case something goes awry with Google’s (GOOG) Android OS or Chrome browser, and even if its Tizen open source initiative with Intel (INTC) goes nowhere. The Korean manufacturer, taking a page from rival Apple’s (AAPL) book, is launching its first ever developers’ conference. Here are details.

If you are reading this article then it is highly likely that you are already a Linux user. This article explores why we feel the need to play the game "My distro is better than your distro".