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My work takes me in and out of busy offices all day long. I see Macs, I see PCs, I see servers and printers. I see PCs running Windows which is no surprise, but what I never see are PCs running Linux. “Why is this?” I always ask myself...

Following yesterday's article about Radeon Gallium3D HyperZ support defeating open-source developers, Jerome Glisse has clarified the situation after trying to make this code work properly for more than a half-year...

This is how Nautilus looks in SolusOS

If you are a system administrator and you want to push the performance of your PHP website such as Drupal, WordPress or wrote by you or other programmers, there are good chances that you’ve heard about the Alternate PHP Cache or simply APC.

The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free and open opcode cache for PHP. Its goal is to provide a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.

That everything you’ll read about APC on the php.net site, and i think is not enough in comparison to the huge boost of performance that this small component can give you

Earlier this month, however, the project entered beta and is apparently “rapidly gaining traction” within Dell, according to a recent blog post from Barton George, Dell's director of marketing for the Web vertical.

Intel has provided Linux kernel support for PCI Express Non-Transparent Bridges (NTB). PCI-E NTB allows for interconnecting multiple systems using PCI Express...

This year has already been a notable one on many technological fronts, but certainly one of the more exciting ones among them is the Linux-powered revolution that's taking place in personal computing.

Funduntu 2012.3 is somewhat unique among Linux distributions. While you find many Debian and Ubuntu spins and forks you do not find as many Red Hat spins and forks that are user friendly, and more, optimized for laptops and netbooks.

With Valve Software's ambitious plans for Linux, they have just picked up another Linux development all-star. Their latest hire has been working on Linux games for more than a decade, is a former Loki Software developer, and he's the creator of SDL.

For those not aware. Emdebian is a smaller, lighter flavor of Debian Linux intended for use on embedded devices. At DebConf this week they talked a bit about this initiative...

Every time you boot a CD or DVD, thank Peter Anvin for making it possible. And, as a key Linux contributor that's not all Peter has done in his long Linux career.

How to use Imagemagick to add watermark to images

In the last seven days: a new Secure Boot-enabled PC landed, a first release of the E17 desktop is on approach, and new malware locked onto all major OS platforms. Also, the Kernel Log series took a look at architecture, driver and infrastructure changes in the upcoming 3.5 Linux kernel release, and Glyn Moody looked at problems caused by low-cost Android tablets

Patrick Verner announced last evening, July 5th, that yet another maintenance release of his Parted Magic Linux operating system for partitioning tasks is available for download.

There's a very exciting open-source announcement coming soon that will please an increasing number of ARM Linux users and fans of open-source graphics drivers...

Denies that app hackers are fleeing the platform Alec Saunders, RIM's VP of developer relations, wishes the press and analyst community would get its "bleeding" story straight about the BlackBerry developer community.…

The latest out of DebConf 12 are future plans from the Debian game team...

Developers could be seriously out of pocket Vid A Russian hacker claims to have found a way to crack the in-app purchasing mechanism used in iOS so that users can get free content in a variety of applications.…

Jerome Glisse has published a new patch to enable HyperZ support for the AMD Radeon (R600g) Gallium3D driver. While this patch could be pushed to Mesa, it's not being enabled by default as it's still causing some GPU lock-ups and developers can't seem to figure out the cause. Jerome is now moving onto other work...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 28 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes a lot of items: an XKCD comic, etherpad, centos, flare, diablo, lunduke's Illumination Software Creator, Blender, the new Sintel game, intel, Github gets money, Android jelly bean code, GNUcash, RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi, TeX, Archbang, Freebsd, Firefox PCmanFM, Fedora 18, E17, Libreoffice and a lot more...