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Patches emerged last week for supporting the GL_ARB_base_instance OpenGL extension within Mesa and Gallium3D's Mesa state tracker. This OpenGL extension was only conceived last year and became part of the specification with OpenGL 4.2...

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the month of May 2012.

Look out C++, the Years of the Snake are upon you Open... and Shut The enterprise, long the stodgy bastion of mainframes, Oracle databases, and Windows servers, is starting to look a lot more like the consumer technology companies that eschew it.…

During today's FESCo meeting, the engineering and steering committee approved a number of new features for Fedora 18, a.k.a. the Spherical Cow...

In March 2012, version 3.3 of the Linux kernel was released (followed in by version 3.4 in May). In addition to a plethora of small features and bug fixes, several important changes have arrived with these releases, including the merging of the Google Android project; merging of the Open vSwitch; several networking improvements (including the teaming network device); and a variety of file system, memory management, and virtualization updates. Explore many of the important changes in versions 3.3 and 3.4, and have a peek at what's ahead in 3.5.

The open-source Radeon DRM/KMS driver in the mainline kernel beginning with the Linux 3.5 release will finally provide support for HDMI audio on the Radeon HD 6000 "Northern Islands" graphics cards...

A high-availability stack serves one purpose: through a redundant setup of two or more nodes, ensure service availability and recover services automatically in case of a problem. Florian Haas explores Pacemaker, the state-of-the-art high-availability stack on Linux.

Lightworks, the high-end non-linear video editor that was open-sourced, is almost ready to finally debut on Linux...

As the business of mapping becomes more competitive and as Open Street Map goes from strength to strength, Glyn Moody looks at the privacy hurdles the mappers will all face and in particular, how it could affect the open source map creators

In this post, I’ll try to provide an overview of the results of the work we’ve done during the Workspace sprint in Pineda de Mar, Catalunya, Spain. The sprint is still going on, unfortunately I had to leave early to attend a friend’s wedding. ...

Activities central: One focus that we have been working on in Plasma quite extensively is organising your documents, contacts, applications, files and other digital assets into Activities. Activities provide a contextual way of organising your devices. Activities usually enclose these resources into personal context which might include locations, contacts, documents and any other resource we’re able to express in terms of semantics. (So pretty much all. :)) ...

The Zorin OS Team are proud to release the Zorin OS 6 Core and Ultimate, the latest version of our operating system designed for Windows users and those who are dissatisfied with the Unity and Gnome Shell offerings.

Few days ago was released Nvidia 302.17, the new release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fixes, some of the new added features we find a new option, –restore-original-backup, to nvidia-xconfig. nvidia-xconfig creates a backup of the original X configuration file when modifying an X configuration file

While putting on his "Linus T. speaks for me" T-shirt, Larry the Free Software Guy suggests there's really only one response to the recent Linus Torvalds-Nvidia hubbub: Yawn.

Are Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and SAP falling in love… or simply countering Oracle Linux and Oracle applications? Either way, Red Hat and SAP seem to be spending more and more time together. Here’s the story.

Search for movie reviews through Unity's Dash in Ubuntu by using the Rotten Tomatoes Scope

Some useful tips to customize Linux Mint 13 (MATE) after a fresh install.

A lot of people use cloud storage systems like Dropbox, Spideroak or Ubuntu One, these software allow you to store your files on a remote server (on the clouds) and be able to access them on all your devices: computers with Linux,mac or Windows and also from tablets and smarthphones. But it wouldn’t better to manage yourself your own storage system ?

This could be really useful for small and large company to setup their own storage with their security policy and permission systems, or also for people that want to have the full control on their files.

The Open Source Initiative's affiliate scheme is five members stronger and now open to any eligible open source organisation to apply for membership

Nobody seems to want to talk about the desktop anymore. It seems that the trend followers have jumped to the next biggest thing. The glamor now isn’t in desktops and laptops, machines that do all the necessary grunt work, but in gee-whiz tablets and smart phones. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but desktops and laptops aren’t going to go away soon – not as long as there’s work to be done.

With all the recurring debates and "year of" discussions here in the Linux blogosphere, it's hard not to suffer frequent pangs of deja vu even on the best of days. Last week, however, was not the best of weeks, at least not for one Linux user by the name of Norma, who had an experience eerily reminiscent of one Linux Girl remembers writing about back in 2010.