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Just days after landing some OpenGL performance tweaks, Intel's Eric Anholt has committed some more performance optimizations for the Intel i965 Mesa driver...

Scheme is a very simple language with a very simple syntax based on s-expressions. Its simplicity has been fundamental in making it a popular introductory language. It follows a minimalist design philosophy specifying a small standard core with powerful tools for language extension. This philosophy helps make Scheme a programming language that can be learned over a weekend. Nevertheless, Scheme is a very versatile language and has been used to write a diverse range of applications such as financial analysis tools, compilers, virtual reality systems, as well as more mundane software.

Build & Defend the mish mash of several game types has been updated after months of no word, great to see!

htop is an ncurses process viewer for Linux. It is somehow similar to top but much better. In this article, I will enumerate several useful tricks with htop. These tricks will be useful for those who work as a sysadmin.

So with some recent titles including Brutal Legend and now Stacking and Costume Quest all hitting the Steam Linux Database and no weekly sales on Humble could the time be ripe for a Humble Double Fine Bundle?

Today, one of the most successful PC games, Portal, has been released for Linux. While a lot of Linux gamers are still waiting for the release of Left 4 Dead for Linux, they can enjoy the award-winning game Portal, as a foretaste of the upcoming Valve's titles for Linux.

This week we explore, non-existant Windows 8 app revenue, the state of 3D printing and cloud naysayers needing to face reality.

The second point release of the XBMC Media Center 12 software has been announced last evening, May 3, 2013, for the Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android and Raspberry Pi platforms.

phpMyAdmin, the popular browser-based software for MySQL database administration, has hit a significant milestone with the release of phpMyAdmin 4.0.0...

Tablet shipments continued to “surge” in the first quarter of 2013, growing 142 percent year-over-year, according to market analyst IDC’s latest “Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker” report. Additionally, Android vendors had an extremely strong first quarter, shipping 27.8 million tablets versus Apple’s 10.5 million iPad and iPad mini devices. More tablets shipped during the first quarter [...]The post Android trounces Apple in Q1 2013 tablet shipments appeared first on LinuxGizmos.com.

The Turbulenz game engine has been open-sourced under the MIT license...

Barnes & Noble seeks to revitalize its Android-powered Nook tablet line over arch-rival Amazon's Kindle tablets by adding Google Play and full Android app support.

Canonical published a few minutes ago, May 3, the regular top 10 app downloads chart, this time for April 2013, extracted from Ubuntu Software Center.

Linux faithful, assemble! Bow before vi, the Great and Powerful editor of FOSS! Well, okay, you don't have to bow, but please read and enjoy!

The Ubuntu 13.10 release, a.k.a. the Saucy Salamander, now has an official release date...

The new Linux 3.9 kernel adds driver support for tiny MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) devices made by ST, including accelerometers and motion sensors. Other Linux 3.9 features that affect the embedded world include SSD caching support, a lightweight suspend power mode, and support for Android’s “Goldfish” virtualization system. When Linux 3.9 arrived on April 28, its [...]The post Linux 3.9′s embedded gifts include MEMS and more appeared first on LinuxGizmos.com.

We already knew, of course, that Fuduntu was history, that the beloved distro was to be no more, evidently due to the fact that it was becoming nearly impossible to support GNOME 2 in any sort of meaningful way. We also knew there’d been talk among the developers at Fuduntu of continuing with a new distro. Well, now it’s a done deal and most of the developers of Fuduntu will be working on a new distro based on openSUSE.

...we learned on Monday that everybody’s favorite open encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has dropped the Facebook fork of MySQL they had been using to deploy MariaDB.

If you’re squinting as you read this on a smartphone, here’s some good news: mobile fonts may soon be clearing up. In collaboration with Google and the FreeType project, Adobe has contributed its CFF (Compact Font Format) rasterizer to the open source FreeType font engine. The open version of CFF is designed to improve legibility [...]The post Android and Linux device FreeType fonts get a facelift appeared first on LinuxGizmos.com.

KDE’s Plasma is the most popular desktop environment in the GNU/Linux world. The community was also working on a Windows port of KDE Plasma so that these users can also take advantage of KDE’s technologies. The Windows project was in the state of limbo for quite some time and now KDE SC 4.10.2 is available for Windows.

Codeweavers, the company behind CrossOver and Wine, has released CrossOver 12.2 for Linux and Mac. CrossOver is an emulation software which easily allows to install and run a countless number of Windows applications on Linux.