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Last week I took something of a trip back through time. The transition began somewhere over the dark Atlantic on my way to Brussels, when the person sitting next to me struck up a conversation. Improbably, I found myself discussing ODF – the OpenDocument Format – with a former Sun engineer who had followed the ODF–OOXML contest with great interest back in 2005 - 2007.

"Got an email from Microsoft, wanting to help 'certify' minecraft for win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the PC as an open platform," he wrote.

"I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way," he added in the second message.

The new kernel offers a hybrid standby feature, can cut off the power to PCIe chips and includes a new framework for userspace drivers. Linux 3.6 also offers improved support for current MacBook models; other new features include security improvements for the temp directory as well as quota and backup features for Btrfs

The Slackware developers have released version 14 of the oldest still-maintained Linux distribution, with kernel version 3.2.29 and numerous updated components such as the Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5 desktop interfaces

While there are many good IDEs for android development like eclipse, NetBeans, intelliJ; sometimes one may want to use lightweight editor to create android apps and still don't want to get into command line every time.

A major new feature for desktops and laptops is hybrid sleep, long supported by Mac OS X and Windows. There have also been updates to Btrfs support

This is a simple tutorial on how to enable USB support in VirtualBox.

After a recent Ubuntu update Youtube has tinted the sky orange and people blue. This article will help resolve this issue.

I get offered products for review here and there. Usually those products are hard for me to get excited about. But a computer built for Linux, assembled in Berkeley, California, by the well-respected ZaReason? That was exciting. (Sorry it took so long for this review to see the light of day.)

Five of the best games to show off what your new Nexus 7 is really capable of.

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.6 kernel on Sunday afternoon...

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to install the latest Beta release of the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email and RSS client on their systems.

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has pointed to estimates that there are some 200,000 mobile patents with "complicated" and "overlapping" technical specifications. He further added that this ""literally prevents choice, prevents innovation. And I think that's a very bad outcome".

Oracle has no plans to offer MySQL as part of the company's public cloud PaaS (platform as a service) strategy for ISVs, the company confirmed at Oracle OpenWorld. Here are the details.

Amazon's integration with Unity is a welcome move as it opens doors for other GNU/Linux based distributions to find new revenue generation models beyond donation.

With GLX set to be deprecated in the not too distant future and EGL being in use with OpenGL ES on mobile platforms, KDE's KWin compositing window manager now has support for using desktop OpenGL over EGL instead of GLX...

Just before the arrival of their own September deadline, HP's remaining webOS developers have released the first version of the Open webOS mobile operating system

Ubuntu and openSuse both come with openJDK installed however at times one needs Oracle JDK to be present in the system. Here are the steps needed to install it on both OS.

The software developers have released version 14 of the oldest still-maintained Linux distribution, with kernel version 3.2.29. Slackware 14 includes numerous updated components such as the Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5 desktop interfaces

A patch has emerged that provides "AutoFDO" support for the GCC compiler for automated feedback-directed optimizations...