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Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC Corp. about adding its Windows operating system to HTC’s Android-based smartphones at little or no cost. People with knowledge of the matter said that it's further evidence of the software maker’s struggle to gain ground in the mobile market.

Everyday the question is asked "which is the best operating system for my netbook?". Any answer given is subjective and down to personal opinion. Here is a list of 12 Linux distributions that work really well on a netbook.

Yesterday Mesa received support for a new OpenGL extension and after that another useful OpenGL 4.2 extension was added to Mesa and implemented within the Intel OpenGL Linux driver. This latest extension can be used for a driver performance optimization.

Qmmp is a music player written in Qt wich an interface that resembles the one of the old XMMS and Winamp 2.x. Qmmp comes with some very nice features including XMMS/Winamp 2.x skins support, an equalizer, plugins, configurable shortcuts and transparency effects.

The purpose of this article is to list the finest open source software that lets you dive into responsive design.

When a new article is posted on the Internet, the first addition to the comments section is often an inconsequential, one-word statement: "First!"... The Samsung Galaxy Gear says "First!" in hardware form. Samsung has beaten Google and Apple as the first major manufacturer to market, but much like the Internet commenter, it has sacrificed substance for the sake of timing.

Summary: The data released by Google shows that Jelly Bean power 48.6 percent of all Android devices. But fragmentation remains a big problem, and getting users onto the latest version continues to be an uphill struggle.

We've written a few times about patent troll Innovatio, which claims to hold some patents on WiFi, saying that anyone using WiFi (including home users) are infringing, though it has chosen "at this stage" not to sue home users.

The Sphirewall team is pleased to announce today the release of version 0.9.9.7, the latest version of the Sphirewall open source firewall. Along with this release we also announce the availability of our S3 Network Appliance.

The necessary plumbing has happened inside Mesa for handling the OpenGL ARB_texture_query_levels extension and it's now implemented for the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver on Sandy Bridge hardware and newer.

This is the first article in a series intended to cover the basics of Linux and working in with the command-line. Since this is a work in progress, one chapter will be provided at a time.

With many fixes having landed, Mesa 9.2.1 was released on Friday along with Mesa 9.1.7 for providing improvements to the Linux OpenGL graphics drivers.

Nokia advised developers that no new apps, or updates to existing apps, are to be accepted for Linux-based MeeGo and Symbian products starting Jan 1, 2014.

With this morning's revelation of how the NSA and GCHQ are trying to attack Tor, some of the presentations being used by the NSA to explain Tor are somewhat interesting or amusing. For example, in one presentation about the program EgotisticalGiraffe (I don't make 'em up, so don't ask), the NSA amusingly feels the need to highlight the fact that "terrorists" use Tor:

Neutron basic RDO setup (havana) to have original LAN as external on Fedora 19 and attempt to test Openstack RDO Havana on a Fedora 19 box.

Hanthana 19.0 has been released. Hanthana Linux is a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. It has all the features of Fedora and loads of additional software, including multimedia players and out-of-the-box codecs support.

SOFTWARE titan Adobe Systems has warned that hackers breached its defences and stole source code along with credit card numbers and other information relating to nearly three million customers.

Just a few days after the Pitivi 0.91 Alpha, the official release has occurred with support for the GTK+ 3.x tool-kit, GStreamer 1.x APIs, and is now powered by the GStreamer Editing Services...

If you often mount and access a remote NFS share on your system, you will probably want to know how to improve NFS file access performance. One possibility is using file caching. This tutorial describes how to enable local file caching for NFS shares by using cachefiles.

On October 3, David Tavares has announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the third and last Beta release of the upcoming Pear OS 8 Linux operating system.