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Wayland and the reference Weston compositor have been updated against the upstream version 0.95 release for the packages to be found in the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10 release...

Fri Aug 24 20:08:37 UTC 2012 This is Slackware 14.0 release candidate 3, and is hopefully the last stop on our long road to a stable Slackware release soon.

Sadly, even this latest release does not ship with a graphical package manager. All package management tasks have to be accomplished from the command line. Aside from that, I think this release has a lot of goodies to offer, and is what a detailed review.

Ubuntu is innovative and forward thinking. With its own unique interface and the fact that dozens of distributions are derived from it. Do all other distributions aspire to achieve the success of Ubuntu?

A US jury has rubberstamped Apple's exploitation of the patent system. But Samsung's $1bn loss will cost consumers dear

Unvanquished is still on track to become one of the most compelling and visually impressive multi-platform open-source games...

While VMware's VMWGFX graphics driver has been deemed stable for months, only now with the Mesa DRM library is the driver support being built by default...

Unfortunately, due to Nokia selling off Qt and the other recent changes, the beta for the Qt 5.0 tool-kit still isn't ready...

For those curious about the development progress on Steel Storm 2, a quick video update has been published...

GCC 4.8 likely won't be released until H1'2013, but there's a number of changes building up for this next release of this leading open-source multi-language compiler...

Great news! The Humble Bundle team has added 4 other games to the Humble Bundle for Android #3.

Fuduntu Team Reorganization Announced With the Fuduntu project growing, a reorganization in the team was deemed as a necessary step. The reorganization will include more defined primary roles for the Fuduntu team members as well as setup team leaders for the major areas of Fuduntu. Andrew Wyatt will remain in the role of the project leader. In addition, we are announcing leaders in various areas. Andrew, along with the various leads will form a new leadership team, replacing the steering committee.

In the week ending 25 August - Microsoft warned users about cracked VPN technology, Oracle are keeping MySQL bugs to themselves, the hard bugs in LibreOffice come under the hammer and sandboxes cause problems. Also, the latest on what's coming in the next Linux kernel

NASA is planning a fleet of small satellites powered by Android Nexus smartphones as a demonstration of how consumer hardware can be used to control future low-cost spacecraft.

Well, another year has passed and Linux is getting older and older, as it now turns 21 years old, today, on August 25th.

If you have never heard of or used John the Ripper, then you most likely have not heard of or used Johnny either. So, what, or who, is Johnny?

It's been quite the all-star cast of companies joining the Linux Foundation over the past year or so, and next week will see the addition of another doozy. Following in the footsteps of Broadcom, Nvidia, and Samsung--all of which joined the nonprofit consortium recently--none other than Twitter will announce on Tuesday that it is joining the foundation as well.

No secret spying plan in new OS Microsoft has moved to quell fears that Windows 8 is building up a detailed record of all applications stored on client machines via its SmartScreen application.…

Apple's three utility patents, all found infringed, cover features like double-tapping to zoom and the "bounce back" technology that snaps images back into place. Apple's four design patents cover elements like the contours and shape of the iPhone.

The jury also rejected Samsung's arguments that the patents were invalid. Samsung escaped punishment on only one of Apple's patents, a design patent asserted only against two Samsung tablets.

Samsung's counterattack against Apple, using six of its own patents, went nowhere. The jury found they weren't infringed.

Remember how last week the judge in the all-but-concluded case of Oracle vs. Google ordered the two companies to disclose whom, if anyone, they might have been paying to write about the case? Yeah, that.

So anyway, today was the deadline for the companies to drop their filings, and, well, here they are. Short answer: Oracle reiterated what it said before, that it had retained the patent law blogger Florian Mueller, he of Foss Patents, as a paid consultant in the case, though this wasn’t exactly news since Mueller and Oracle had both already disclosed the relationship. It also mentioned an Oracle corporate blogger who wrote about the case while it was going on.

Google for its part appears to have shrugged. “Neither Google nor its counsel has paid an author, journalist, commentator or blogger to report or comment on any issues in this case. And neither Google nor its counsel has been involved in any quid pro quo in exchange for coverage of or articles about the issues in this case.”