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Always a popular operating system, Linux has been getting a lot more buzz lately. All of this new news has helped to propel Linux operating systems to the public eye, and awareness of this system’s existence is now starting to spread beyond technology enthusiasts and computer coders.

JavaScript library handily beats all comers The jQuery open source JavaScript development library is now running on 50 per cent of all websites, according to the latest data from web technology surveyor W3Techs.…

This is a quick “getting started” guide to enable and help people to begin developing using Gnome Technologies and why not involve in the Core Gnome Modules and push Gnome further. If you think that develop a Gnome App is hard, your wrong ..isn’t harder than setting up a WordPress :)

Support within the DRM user-space library for handling PRIME import and export of GEM buffer objects has been committed for the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver...

Alright, this is not new at all. But this time Jeremy Bicha from Ubuntu’s Gnome Team (maintainer in Gnome 3 Team ppa and in many other projects) asked in Gnome Board and Marketing MLs to collaborate in order to find a name for an Ubuntu Gnome community spin, similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu and others.

This screenshot tour of the first Google Nexus-branded Android tablet includes over 350 images showcasing numerous aspects of the Android 4.1-based device’s user interface, home screens, customization, and apps.

What is in common with the golden winner of 100 & 200m in 2012 (and 2008!) Olympic Games and Gnome3? They are both born to run fast and break records! The so unpopular Gnome3 won the Product of Year and Best Desktop Environment in Linux Journal Readers’ Choice Awards ’11, in every release makes a new record in extensions.gnome.org (almost 200!) and forces daily Blogs/Magazines to devote pages for it!

In this second installment of our five-week course on the Go language, we explore Go's unusual approach to object orientation, its special built-in object types, the syntax for multiple return values, and how Go handles exceptions.

AMD quietly released an update to their preferred compiler, Open64, last week. The AMD Open64 4.5.2 compiler supports their next-generation "Piledriver" Fusion APUs...

The KDE Randa Meetings are a small gathering of KDE contributors in the village of Randa, Switzerland. For the fourth year, the intense Randa sprints will include key KDE projects and top developers, all collaborating concurrently under one roof, isolated from noise and distractions. Funds are being raised to support the meetings. read more

The Nexus 7 seems to be taking off among consumers, but the real game-changer is Android 4.1, known as Jelly Bean.

HandBrake is a simple, open source program designed to convert videos, movies, and obscure media files into formats that can be read by various devices such as the iPod, Apple TV and others. In this tutorial, we'll show you how. You'll be converting videos in no time!

Plex always has been the Mac-friendly offshoot of XBMC. I've never considered using an Apple product for my home media center, so I've never really put much thought into it. Things have changed recently, however, and now the folks behind Plex have given the Linux community an awesome media server.

The first certified NVIDIA 304 series Linux graphics driver has been released. The NVIDIA 304.37 Linux x86/x86_64 graphics driver packs in 41 official changes affecting several areas of this leading proprietary graphics driver...

Red Hat has long supported OpenStack cloud software... in theory. In practice though the Linux giant wouldn't commit to OpenStack until now. On August 13, Red Hat, announced the immediate availability of the preview release of Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution. This test release is based on the Essex version of popular open source OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud framework.

The Open Source Manager of Twitter discusses how open source software is vital to Twitter's success

This guide provides an overview on how to set up umbrella monitoring to monitor applications and devices in distributed networks. Multiple instances of monitoring systems (in this example Verax NMS express) can be configured in a tree-like, master-slave, federated umbrella monitoring structure. This umbrella-like monitoring can be used to monitor geographically distributed networks e.g. by telecommunications operators to manage regional, state and national networks or managed service providers for managing their clients' infrastructure.

First public OpenStack release from Red Hat lays the groundwork for future enterprise adoption and support.

The Slackware developers have delivered the first release candidate of Slackware 14. According to the developers, all bugs from the beta have been fixed and many packages were refreshed

There's been much ado about Linux desktops in recent months, but few would dispute KDE's prominence among them. That, indeed, is one of the many reasons there's been so much concern over Nokia's impending sale of the Qt toolkit, upon which KDE is based.