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For those pulling down the Git master of the xf86-video-ati X.Org graphics driver this week, 2D color tiling is finally enabled by default for Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000/5000/6000 series graphics cards, from R6xx through the "Cayman" GPUs...

This edition looks at Ubuntu on an ARM-based Chromebook, a new Linux Mint store, a request for a new Linux minion, a software upgrade for the OUYA games console, and the Tweetian Twitter app going open source

A few minutes ago, November 1st, the Fedora development team proudly announced the immediate availability for download of the first Alpha version of the upcoming Fedora 18 operating system for the ARM architecture.

Yesterday I wrote about how Fedora 18 wasn't looking too good in terms of being delayed five times already and is still facing some problems with incomplete features. Today the situation was worsened by yet another delay...

Royalty free open standards are finally established as a requirement of UK Government procurement; this helps level the playing field for open source and free software solutions

The newest operating system from Canonical, Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), is shipping with Linux kernel 3.6, but the upcoming Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) could arrive with Linux kernel 3.8.

With time open source software have emerged as potential contenders to proprietary software. Unlike the traditional understanding, open source software have proven to be as capable (or even more capable) than counterpart proprietary software and have been successful in claiming substantial market share. While we occasionally analyze the browser market share, this time we decide to compare the open source and proprietary browser market share and investigate how trends are shaping up in browser market.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from November 12th - November 14th, 2012.

Linux support for UEFI Secure Boot has been evolving and prime mover behind that support, Matthew Garrett, has now provided an overview of the current status of how Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu are managing the challenge

Porn servers disclose their visitors' IP addresses, and payment processing services put their customers' active session tokens at risk. The cause, however, is no clever hack, but rather shoddy administration

What is Fuduntu? It's the Linux distribution with a "punny name" that has Fedora heritage but makes a hat tip to Ubuntu.

Phone maker VERY EXCITED about mega mobe probe RIM reckons more than 50 network operators are testing its BlackBerry 10 handsets, which sounds impressive until one remembers that testing is just a first step on the long journey to market.…

Each year automobile companies try to predict what new features consumers will want in their cars. If their predictions are right, they are richly rewarded with increased car sales. If they are wrong, they suffer the financial consequences. But wait, is that the best way to design cars? What if car companies invited consumers to the table as equal partners in the design process? The way I see it, consumers could be buying cars they co-designed—reducing the gigantic financial risk to car companies, not to mention the waste of never-purchased vehicles.

The beta for version 2.6 of the suite of open source productivity applications includes improvements to ODF handling and adds new features to the Plan and Kexi tools

It's no secret that many here in the Linux blogosphere greeted Windows 8 with jubilation -- not because they had any intention of using it, but because of the opportunity they think it represents for Linux to capture a greater proportion of mainstream users. That, indeed, was the hot topic du jour last week, but this week the conversation has shifted slightly.

New role for OS X 10.7 Lion's CoreStorage logical volume manager Top marks to hardware hacker Patrick Stein who has discovered that Apple’s Fusion Drive technology, which combines separate SSD and HDD storage into a single volume, can be added to old Macs. And he’s added one to his own Mac Pro.…

This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 12.10 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, October 31st, the immediate availability for download of the fifth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.

My fiance started a new class this week - an MIS (Management Information Systems) class. While we were having dinner tonight she brought up the fact there are some - lets say - colorful definitions of Linux in her wonderful "Experiencing MIS" text book.

Now that Ubuntu's been ported to the Google Nexus 7 and there's other interesting Ubuntu work going into the tablet/mobile-space, developers want more open-source games ported to using OpenGL ES rather than the full OpenGL stack...