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AMD's Ben Sander shares details about the heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) and how it will change the way people program in the future.

An evaluation of Android 4.2's new app verification system finds it somewhat lacking in detection capabilities when compared with existing AV engines in the cloud

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, December 10, the immediate availability for download of the tenth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.

Revenge of the Titans which is quite frankly an awesome game and my complete favourite from the Humble Bundles 2&3 has received an update which you can find either on your Humble Accounts if you purchased those bundles or via their own website of course.

GraphBuilder is an application that makes it easy to discover (hidden) structures in Big Data. It is an Intel-sponsored project released under the Apache 2 license.

For those that are new to open source, understanding the intricacies of how open source communities share, communicate, and govern themselves may take a while to understand. Each community is different, but there are a few commonalities between them that lay the foundation for a successful project. If you’re just getting into open source, be sure to read more about the different tools that organize communities of practice in The Open Source Way book.

With tmux, you can create a monitoring system allowing you to check on your server remotely and get the perfect overview of what’s happening. Joey Bernard explains how…

Clement Lefebvre proudly announced a minutes ago, December 10, the immediate availability for download of the OEM installation images of the recently released Linux Mint 14 operating system.

The GNOME 3/Cinnamon edition is still too unstable. The MATE edition is much better than in version 13 LTS "Maya", and I can now recommend it as much as I was past editions of Linux Mint with GNOME 2.

Overall, I’ve developed a preference for using open source tools and components whenever it’s feasible. Here are some of the reasons why I prefer to develop with open source code.

After posting a rapid personal rebuff to Richard Stallman's criticism of Ubuntu's Amazon Lens and its search servers, Jono Bacon has apologised for calling Stallman's position "childish"

Dropbox has announced that Python creator Guido van Rossum will be joining the company. Dropbox has been built using Python from the beginning and its design was influenced by the language's design philosophy

Among major computer hardware makers, Dell continues to show growing signs of having a cohesive, far-reaching strategy surrounding open source. We've reported on the company's work with Canonical to bring Ubuntu-based systems to both India and China, including an expansion of this effort. Dell also recently announced its Ubuntu laptop, part of its "Project Sputnik" effort, targeted at developers. And, Dell is offering new laptops with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) pre-loaded. According to the latest reports, we're going to see more open source-friendly moves from Dell going forward.

XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment. For Linux Mint 13, the was an XFCE edition in addition to the Cinnamon and Mate editions, but for Linux Mint 14, there isn't. This short guide explains how to install XFCE on your Linux Mint 14 desktop.

The Raspberry Pi can be the affordable route to teaching schoolchildren the lost idea that computer programming can be fun

You win some, you lose some," as the old saying goes, but rarely do the two occur nearly simultaneously. Sure enough, however, that's just what happened to open source software in Germany recently: It was being celebrated in Munich even as it was dumped in Freiburg.

When you use CPU intensive, multithreaded software tools on your multicore-processor such as 'pigz' or 'pbzip2' (for example), the OS loses its responsiveness (more or less) and it will slow down other running tasks, and it is something that should be expected too.

However, when running such applications while performing your other daily computer related tasks, the degraded OS responsiveness can become an issue.

Patents icon In a brief submitted to a US Court of Appeals, various major internet and IT companies have stated that the combination of an abstract idea and a computer should not be eligible for patent protection. "Many computer-related patent claims just describe an abstract idea at a high level of generality and say to perform it on a computer or over the internet", said the brief that was submitted by companies such as Google and Facebook on Friday. Other signatories include Dell, Intuit, Homeaway, Rackspace, Red Hat and Zynga.

Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. have joined forces to offer more than $500 million to buy Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ)’s patents out of bankruptcy, said people familiar with the situation.

The two companies, competing for dominance of the smartphone market, have partnered after leading two separate groups this summer to buy some of Kodak’s 1,100 imaging patents, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the process is private.

Takeaway: It’s taken quite some time, but Netflix streaming video has finally arrived on the Ubuntu Linux desktop. In this easy, step-by-step, Jack Wallen shows you how.