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With its newly announced Microsoft Surface tablet/laptop hybrid, Microsoft is trying to be a PC and post-PC device in one gadget -- and it's going to be extremely difficult serving two masters.

Canonical proudly announced last evening, June 18th, that in collaboration will Dell they will ship laptops pre-loaded with the Ubuntu operating systems.

What, we fire thousands and the shares go down? Analysis Last week Nokia did exactly what analysts have been begging it to do for years - it took an axe to the company's bureaucracy and purged the leadership. The latest 10,000 redundancies leave the company with its smallest workforce since 1998. Nokia's reward was a further 18 per cent fall in its share price. Thanks, markets.…

A researcher has reported that the performance improvements that SPDY brings to the web may be a lot less than suggested. Meanwhile an Nginx developer rolls out the first test release of their SPDY implementation

The significant difference between the Ubuntu approach and the Microsoft approach is that there's no indication that Canonical will be offering any kind of signing service. A system carrying only the Ubuntu signing key will conform to these requirements and may be certified by Canonical, but will not boot any OS other than Ubuntu unless the user disables secure boot or imports their own key database. That is, a certified Ubuntu system may be more locked down than a certified Windows 8 system.

Paul Whalen proudly announced a few minutes ago, June 19th, that the stable version of the ARM edition of the Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) operating system is now available for download.

The developers of the Nouveau project have released version 1.0.0 of their open source graphics driver for X.org. With this release, the last part of the free driver stack for NVIDIA graphics components has left beta state

Today we are proud to launch a new Mozilla Webmaker app to the world. Meet Thimble, the new tool that makes it incredibly simple for anyone to create and share their own web pages and other projects in minutes. Thimble … Continue reading

While the process to transfer the leadership of the Mandriva distribution into a non-profit foundation continues, the developers have released a first technology preview of Mandriva 2012

Cheese the webcam Gnome’s application that was written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx is under a new design development. Yet another Gnome App that it might get cloud support?

A new a customized build of Unity is now available that adds missing features to back to the Unity Shell.

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Shutter is a free and open-source screenshot program that offers advanced capturing, sharing and editing abilities. It stands out for its feature richness and editing power that will save you time jumping from one application to the other, and adds professional look, or artistic style to your screenshots!

After being in development for many years, the xf86-video-nouveau X.Org DDX driver finally saw its first release and it is version 1.0...

MapR is now available on Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service, albeit an older version than the newly released MapR 2.0

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.