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Yesterday I shared open-source Linux graphics benchmarks showing the Intel Ivy Bridge performance improving on Mesa 9.2 over the earlier releases of this important open-source Linux graphics driver component. However, for the latest-generation Intel "Haswell" graphics, Mesa 9.2 is an even more important upgrade. Here's a look at the performance benefits in moving from Mesa 9.1 to the soon-to-be-released Mesa 9.2.

After the announcement of Canonical on Mir, which will be included as a default display server in Ubuntu 13.10, I decided to do some tests (benchmark, in the jargon), to see whether the performances of Mir are comparable to those of the good old X.org (the daemons currently present on Ubuntu), as promised by Mark Shuttleworth on his blog.

No, there's SSH in my browser! Although it may not be as logical of a combination as chocolate and peanut butter, for Chromebook users, an HTML5 SSH client is pretty amazing. Granted, Google's "crosh" shell has SSH abilities, but it's a very limited implementation.

At last week's Linux COnnect Europe 2013 conference, there was a presentation regarding bringing Android's HWComposer on Linux KMS.

It only works with rooted devices, but if you have one, and you're feeling nervous, it looks like it's worth installing.

You want to write an article, a report or even a book in a professional way, wondering about the layout, the text styling and the fonts to use, tired from coding in Tex/LaTeX starting from scratch. It’s time to end all of that and discover a wonderful tool that will offer you many features,

So what’s Kile ? Kile is an integrated LaTeX environment made especially for the KDE desktop but works well with other Desktop manager like Gnome and Unity

Android gaming consoles have hit the market, but are they doomed to die a quick death? Can Google save them with its own system?

This article showcases the finest open source projects that provide a key alternative for those who wish to avoid using a commercially provided cloud.

KDE 4.11's first release candidate shows off new versions of Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform.

Linux Games, an online classifieds website that advertises jobs for aspiring Linux game developers, has published an advertisment from Crytek’s German offices, inviting game programmers with a proficiency in Linux to port over the Crytek engine.

When Microsoft announced back in January that its flagship development tools Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service would play nicely with Git, it was a sign that the tool and its online manifestation GitHub had become part of the programming furniture. Many supporters chalk that status up as a win for all things open source. Others are less certain GitHub's always helping, because many projects on the site use highly contestable licenses.

Raspberry Pi embedded development firm Geekroo has surpassed its Kickstarter funding goal for a Mini-ITX board and case that extends the RPi into a full-fledged computer (SBC). The Fairywren is equipped with a 24-pin ATX power supply connector, a four-port USB hub, a 2.5-inch HDD bay, a serial port, an IR remote module, GPIO breakout, and sockets for a built-in XBee radio and Arduino Uno boards.

I never thought how a simple photograph at a family birthday could capture the essence of an open education until my niece recently turned one year old.

Review of developer Double Fine Productions' action adventure Psychonauts (2005).

The world’s leading in-car navigation provider accelerates development cycles, increases business agility and simplifies IT with Apache CloudStack.

Software is protected by copyright law in the U.S. and many other countries. Anyone that wrote the software, owns the copyright and can say how it is used. [NOT saying how it can be used does NOT remove your responsibility as the owner, even if you don't care.] People sometimes give up their copyright ownership to the software they write in their employment agreements.

Linaro has just published videos and slides from keynotes, technical presentations, and panel discussions at last week’s Linaro Connect Europe 2013 event held in Dublin, Ireland. The sessions spanned a wide range of topics, including Android, Builds and Baselines, Enterprise, Graphics and Multimedia, Linux Kernel, Network, Project Management Tools, Training, and more. Linaro describes itself [...]

Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Obama administration and are demanding the White House stop the dragnet surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency.

Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the EFF, told the Washington Post that the NSA leaks credited to Snowden have been a “tremendous boon” to the plaintiffs in recently filed court cases challenging the surveillance state. The courts are currently pondering at least five important cases, Cohn told the Post, which could for once and for all bring some other issues up for discussion.

A review of KeePassX, a secure and relatively simple way to manage your passwords. No solution is easy, but this is better than using temp123 for all of your valuable data.

"License, schmisence" may be the mantra of at least some open source developers, who are more interested in software code than legal minutiae. But that's a mistake, according to open source consulting company BlackDuck, which claims that as much as $59 billion may be "locked up" in open source projects that haven't declared explicit licenses.