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The arrival of the ten-year anniversary of Creative Commons is an opportunity to express gratitude to an organization that has done so much to promote the sharing of cultural works and to challenge traditional assumptions about the appropriate use of copyright.

It's early days for secure boot, the new method that Microsoft is using to protect its desktop turf, but it would not be unfair to say that the company has succeeded in showing up the sharply fragmented nature of GNU/Linux.

Three months after the release of X.Org Server 1.13, the first point release is now available to provide additional bug-fixes...

The audio/sound pull for the Linux 3.8 kernel has been sent in and it features audio driver improvements, new capabilities, clean-ups, and more...

The Linux 3.8 kernel is beginning work on supporting Microsoft's Windows 8 multi-touch protocol...

Pulling together hardware designers from all over the Internet presents several challenges. Among these is the task of keeping things like project time lines, roadmaps, forums, wikis, and issue tracking organized and cohesive. There may also be the need to collect and organize design files such as CAD, which don’t fit well into the traditional paradigm used by source code management systems like git and CVS. The main reason for this is because CAD files tend to be binary, and are hard to diff or merge in any meaningful way.

The Cinnamon Desktop is becoming more impressive with every passing update. This release is the product of over 600 total changes. Linux Mint 14 Nadia is the first distribution to ship with Cinnamon 1.6 which now has a more convenient workspace management interface.

Today Valve Software has announced the forthcoming opening of the Steam Linux Beta for everyone next week. This announcement was made on a closed mailing list.

Linux got its start on a 386 processor, but 21-years later, the Linux kernel developers have decided its time to say good-bye to the venerable Intel processor in its next major Linux kernel release: 3.8.

Variety and choice have long been hallmarks of the Linux world, not least because new distributions emerge practically every day. That's been just as true in 2012 as it has in other years gone by, meaning that as this year draws to a close, we have even more options than we did when it started. More than 30 new distros joined our sphere in rapid succession thanks just to the “31 Flavors of Fun” experiment in August, but there were also several notable arrivals that come to light over the course of the year with the potential to make a lasting mark.

It seems that nearly every tech titan under the sun is throwing its support at OpenStack. EMC is the latest giant to do so, now that it is an official, corporate-level sponsor of OpenStack. Since it owns most of VMware, when VMware recently joined OpenStack it became obvious that EMC would become a sponsor, too. In commenting on the arrangement, EMC officials are likening OpenStack development to Linux development. That's an apt analogy, and it also tells us how important support and proper documentation and training are going to become in the future of OpenStack.

At my public library job, all day long I help people use the library's public access computers. At the end of a long day's work, I enjoy kicking back and listening to some YouTube music videos. One way I do this is to search YouTube for new Bob Dylan cover songs. I search YouTube for: Bob Dylan cover, this week.

While publishing this morning was a large Ubuntu 13.04 OpenGL desktop performance comparison using six desktop environments and five different GPU/driver configurations, to result in 30 different data points for multiple Linux games, also announced today were forthcoming Compiz performance improvements. To land soon will be a number of performance enhancements for the Compiz compositing window manager...

Google recently introduced its first 10-inch Nexus branded tablet, the Nexus 10, which boasts a stunning 2560×1600 (300ppi) IPS display and a slim/light/comfortable design. This in-depth review examines the Nexus 10?s hardware and user interface, and compares the Nexus 10 both to its smaller sibling, the Nexus 7, and to its 10-inch Android tablet competition.

Submit your game ideas and prototypes to Mozilla and you could win a trip to GDC 2013 and much more

Good news to anyone not in it yet, Steam for Linux will be in Open Beta next week!

Published to the Linux kernel mailing list were a set of patches to provide a new feature called Zswap for lightweight compressed swap caching...

The latest version 12.4 rock of the Linux deployment software m23 introduces the new IP manager for external (non-m23) devices. Read more about the new version at http://m23.sf.net!

WordPress is Free and open source software, built by a distributed community of mostly volunteer developers from around the world. New version was released a couple of days ago and now it is more polished and enjoyable than ever before. Here what is new in WordPress v3.5.

Complete article: http://www.loneshooter.com/whats-new-in-wordpress-3-5/

The latest version of Carl Sassenrath's REBOL language has been published as open source, marking a major change in how the novel language is made available to the public. REBOL, a previously proprietary language developed by Sassenrath, the primary developer of AmigaOS, was first released in 1997 and is oriented towards task-specific language dialects or domain-specific languages to be used in processing. It has a number of "dialects" for purposes such as data exchange (load), programming (do), pattern matching (parse), function and object definition (make), and GUIs (layout or display). These dialects work together with a free-form syntax to provide an intriguing language, but one which has never become mainstream.