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With we are only about half-way through the development of the Linux 3.8 kernel, there's already exciting features beginning to enter the development spotlight for Linux 3.9. One of the features coming to the Linux 3.9 kernel will be grand changes to the very common "HDA Intel" audio codec drivers...

Planetary Annihilation the RTS game coming to Linux thanks to Kickstarter has released some really awesome concept images, if it's anything like the images it will be awesome.

HP cloud computing leader and OpenStack advocate Zorawar "Biri" Singh has exited the company, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has confirmed. At a time when the struggling computer giant needs consistency and strong execution, Singh's exit may raise eyebrows among HP's cloud partners and customers.

Approx is a proxy server for Debian archive files. Having such a service within your LAN with multiple Debian like systems will provide you with number of benefits such as update speed since any update package needs to be downloaded only once. This will also lower down Internet download usage requirements, etc. This article will describe a process of approx setup for Ubuntu Linux.

After much delay, the Spherical Cow graces us with its presence. How does the final version of Fedora 18 stack up?

This week we look at hacking the hackers, 5 reasons why the Ubuntu Linux mobile OS might just succeed and the Internet by the numbers in 2012.

The Open Compute Project is gaining momentum, as evidenced by the increasing attendance at the Open Compute Summit. This week, the summit attracted more than 1,900 attendees that were interested in checking out the latest and greatest in Open Compute Project technologies, innovations and products. There has been a bit of buzz about some of the innovations unveiled at the show, and this can only mean good things for the open source cloud computing market.

Earlier today, Two Tribes tweeted saying they were keen to catch up on the latest Steam developments after focusing on Toki Tori 2 development.

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running CentOS 6.3) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (CentOS 6.3 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

No i'm not talking about that many titles! 10,000,000 is the name of a game that has popped up in the Steam database.

The word on the street seems to be that Linux is set to be a commercially viable gaming platform. And the way it looks right now, this might actually prove to be true. There's still some uncertainty amongst both developers and gamers though. At the core of a lot of it is this: Developers are hesitant to make games for a market as small as this, and gamers are hesitant to adopt it as a gaming platform because there are so few games for it.

I asked Ethan Lee if he had anything to add to what I wrote, so I have included his view on the various topics.

Nearly one year after Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload storage site was shuttered on criminal charges filed by the United States government, the big man is back with a new cloud storage service, called simply Mega.

Why host in New Zealand? The site answers that one straight-on: “Among other important reasons, New Zealand's native M?ori name is ‘Aotearoa,’ which means ‘Land of the long white cloud.’”

According to plan, today openSUSE 12.3 beta sees the light. The beta comes with mostly smallish changes as we're in serious testing waters now – we hope you're out there to help us clear the way to the final release. The beta comes with 4.10 RC2 of KDE's workspaces and applications. KDE has announced a third RC due to some late changes and this version is part of a testing sprint organized by the KDE Quality team. openSUSE KDE packagers have build a special live image to test this release but we urge you to get the beta packages from software.opensuse.org as they are of course newer.

Earlier this year, VIA released a tiny $49 ARM-powered motherboard it called the Android PC System (APC) in an effort to ride the wave the Raspberry Pi Foundation accidentally started with its $35 Linux computer for budding young developers. Today, it's announcing a pair of follow-ups: the APC Rock is a $79 bare motherboard, and the APC Paper is a $99 version that is identical, except it loses the VGA port and comes in a recycled cardboard case designed to look like a small hardcover book. The Rock is available now, and the Paper has a March pre-order date. The original APC will continue to be sold with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) for $49.

The last few months have given us a steady trickle of new hardware running Google's lightweight Chrome OS: Samsung's ARM Chromebook and Acer's C7 Chromebook delivered Chrome OS for $249 and $199, respectively. Those releases finally gave us Chromebooks with prices that were roughly in line with their capabilities. Today, Lenovo is getting in on the fun with its own Chromebook announcement, but while the Thinkpad X131e Chromebook promises "a rugged design for the classroom environment," you'll pay $429 per laptop to get that extra durability.

There are a lot of good old Linux commands to see what's happening inside your system, with all the power and flexibility you need to zero in on just the information you want. Want to see who is sucking up the most resources on your computer? You can use the good old ps command. This example lists the top 7 hogs, excluding your own processes:

It seems to be good for beginner Linux users who may be ready to get their hands a little more dirty. More importantly, though, the Anaconda installer is amazing!

With Git activity that took place this morning in mainline Mesa, the Nouveau driver now supports hardware-accelerated video decoding for this open-source NVIDIA driver with GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" and GeForce 600 "Kepler" graphics cards using their dedicated video engines...

US federal courts are divided into 94 districts. When patent-holders file a lawsuit against a product that's sold nationwide, they have pretty wide leeway as to where to file their case. That's allowed for quite a bit of "venue shopping" in patent cases, and several years ago the remote and rural Eastern District of Texas started to become surprisingly popular.

Over time, East Texas became known as a place very friendly to patent plaintiffs and unfriendly to patent defendants, particularly out-of-state or foreign tech companies. Judges there were reluctant to let cases be transferred out of their district, and some patent-holding companies began setting up Texas LLCs in order to better argue that Texas was the right venue for them.

The developers of the SolusOS Linux distribution have announced the Consort Desktop Environment. This user interface for Linux systems is based on code from the same components that currently provide GNOME 3's fallback mode, also known as GNOME Classic. This mode works without 3D acceleration and provides a desktop which resembles that of GNOME 2; however, the associated code will be removed in GNOME 3.8 – among the reasons given is that nobody has maintained the code base and that the interface appears to have undergone very little testing in recent times.