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While Linux 3.7-rc1 hasn't even been released yet as the merge window is still open, the Linux 3.7 kernel is exciting and users of the open-source Nouveau driver will be greeted by the Nouveau DRM driver rewrite / code restructuring. Due to the invasive Nouveau work, some early Nouveau tests under the Linux 3.7 kernel were carried out. The 3.7 results were then compared to the earlier Linux 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 kernel releases.

This article explains the powerful Linux strace command by explaining its capabilities using practical examples.

Since I just built a new system with a Core i3 3220 processor, one of the low-end models, I decided to see what the heck is going on between the Linux and Ivy Bridge.

In the week ending 6 October - Linux kernel 3.6 released, 64-bit ARM support coming in Linux 3.7, Oracle's plans for Java, 4.5 million routers are hacked, Android malware can create 3D room maps and Jolla plans to launch a MeeGo-powered phone

Hi all, in this post we will create a very basic note taking app. It will store only single note and retrieve it back. In later post we will keep extending it until it become a fully working app. So bear with it as the attempt is to learn android programming not anything else.

Keith Packard has been working on support for passing file descriptors over the X protocol socket as part of the work of DRI-Next, a.k.a. the "DRI3" undertaking...

There's a bit of a spat that started between Intel and Samsung developers working on the Tizen operating system...

Pwnie Express has announced yet another high-end security auditing platform based on Linux and open source software.

David Tavares has announced a few days ago that the fourth Alpha version of the upcoming Pear Linux 6 operating system is now available for download and testing.

If you have been wanting to try out the FreeBSD 10-CURRENT operating system that's presently under development, there's now an easier way. Rather than needing to install a current FreeBSD release and then upgrade to the "-CURRENT" packages from there, a FreeBSD developer has finally started offering snapshot images of the FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE versions. Yes, finally ISO snapshots to make it easier to try out the current development state from a clean install.

Of course, patent system apologists will point out that he never patented his own work, and Mattheij answers that the same way many developers I know have answered various patent questions, by noting that what they did was nothing special, and the idea that it deserves patent protection is ridiculous.

It's football season and I'm trying my hand at helping coach my son's team. He's surprisingly good at defensive end and I am obviously very proud. It's all what you would expect, until recently, something stood out.

The pull request for the EXT4 file-system updates targeting the Linux 3.7 kernel were sent in on Friday afternoon by Theodore Ts'o...

If you've ever been frustrated by the inaccuracy of a television weather report, in particular the graphics, there's always been a way out -- you could go to the National Weather Service website and look at the online radar images pulled straight off the actual radar. If you're fishing, hiking or working outdoors, though, you'll find the graphics don't render all that well on mobile devices.

While Linux has all kinds of powerful and excellent networking utiltities, there are times when you want to see how things look from the outside. Check out this sampling of free websites that test performance, tell you where things are, perform diagnostics and display the results in nice graphs and charts that even a pointy-haired boss can understand.

PyBlosxom, a very worthy project that took the Perl-based Blosxom and re-did it in Python, has been slow, development-wise, for a long time now. In recent months the project was near death, but a new maintainer is at least watching over what's left. Not that Blosxom is an active, living project, because it isn't.

In this day and age, you really want to make sure your data is safe on your server. One popular tool to help do this is the CSF/LFD package (ConfigServer Firewall and Login Failure Daemon).

Apt-fast is a script that can "drastically improve APT download speed" by using command line download accelerators such as Axel or Aria2 with multiple connections per package.

Announced this morning on the kernel mailing list was F2FS, a new open-source Linux file-system that comes courtesy of Samsung. F2FS is short for the "Flash-Friendly File-System" for Linux. The list announcement describes this new file-system as "a new file system carefully designed for the NAND flash memory-based storage devices. We chose a log structure file system approach, but we tried to adapt it to the new form of storage.

Ubuntu 12.10 includes a new shopping lens that shows Amazon search results in dash. These results are related to the query you typed in dash while searching for applications, files or other stuff. If a user clicks on these results and makes a purchase from Amazon, Ubuntu gets affiliate revenue which is invested back into Ubuntu development.