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Nvidia is now trying to get on Linux developers' good side. Yesterday, Nvidia's Andy Ritger e-mailed developers of Nouveau, an open source driver for Nvidia cards that is built by reverse engineering Nvidia's proprietary drivers. Ritger wrote that "NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs, with the intent to address areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau. We intend to provide more documentation over time, and guidance in additional areas as we are able."

Here's how you can install Firefox 24 in Fedora 19, 18, and 17.

As most Phoronix readers are now aware, the first countdown timer is now complete for Valve's SteamBox-related news. The first drop was about SteamOS, their own Linux distribution that's highly optimized for gaming.

Fedora Project, through Kevin Fenzi, has just announced a few minutes ago the immediate availability for download and testing of the Fedora 20 Alpha Linux operating system.

To outsiders like me, the announcement of the formation of Cyanogen, Inc. was a bit of a surprise. And the fact that the company succeeded in raising millions of venture capital (VC) funds was even more surprising.

After a one week delay, Fedora 20 is now up to being in an alpha quality state. Now it's your chance to give a first shot for this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution codenamed Heisenbug.

GStreamer 1.2.0 is now available as the first major update to this widely-used open-source multimedia framework since the GStreamer 1.0 milestone some months ago.

The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to beautify their current desktop environment with the gorgeous, flat and modern Pacifica icon theme.

SteamOS, from Valve Corporation, the company behind Steam, the popular gaming platform, is the latest Linux distribution to be announced.

Today in Apple: Should Apple merge OS X and iOS or would it be a disaster like Windows 8?

Linux vendor SUSE is releasing its latest open-source OpenStack cloud platform-based product today, SUSE Cloud 2.0. The SUSE Cloud 2.0 release comes just over a year after the first SUSE Cloud release in August 2012.

Today in Open Source: Nvidia promises to help with open source Linux drivers. Plus: Top 5 video editors for Ubuntu, and how to support open source

Red Hat reported its second quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Monday, once again showing continued demand for the company's Linux and open source technologies. Red Hat's CEO used the call as an opportunity to detail the competitive landscape as well as identifying where business is coming from.

At the Maker Faire in New York City, ValentFX showed off two open source FPGA boards that stack with BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi SBCs, and also unveiled BBot, a BeagleBone-based drink serving robot built with an earlier FPGA board version.

Packet queues are a core component of any network stack or device. They allow for asynchronous modules to communicate, increase performance and have the side effect of impacting latency.

Want a Java Enterprise Edition middleware stack for your PaaS cloud? Then Red Hat new JBoss PaaS services for OpenShift is for you.

If you are looking for a cross-platform VNC client, you have two options: use either Java-based VNC viewers (e.g., RealVNC or TightVNC), or web-based VNC clients. Compared to Java-based VNC viewers, VNC web clients are typically faster than Java-based counterparts, and could easily be integrated into other third-party applications. This tutorial describes how to access VNC remote desktop in web browser by using VNC web client called noVNC.

SteamOS is the new free operating system designed for the TV and the living room which will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines. I think SteamOS will be the perfect choice for gamers because it combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. SteamOS developers are working very hard to increase audio performance and now they are targeting reductions in input latency at the operating system level.

Axiomtek announced a 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX form-factor motherboard based on Intel’s embedded-oriented Atom E6xx processors and EG20T chipset. The Linux-friendly PICO822 SBC provides LVDS display, HD audio, SATA-300, gigabit Ethernet, USB, and serial interfaces, comes with up to 32GB of onboard SSD, runs fanless, and supports -20 to +70? C operation. Axiomtek says the […]

The BackBox team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, version 3.09. This release includes features such as Linux kernel 3.8, EFI mode, anonymous mode and armhf Debian packages. What's new: pre-installed Linux kernel 3.8; system improvements; upstream components; bug corrections; performance boost; improved Update menu; improved Forensic menu; new Anonymous mode (Tor transparent proxy); removed pre-installed compat-wireless 3.8 with Aircrack-NG patch; predisposition to ARM architecture (armhf Debian packages); new and updated hacking tools.