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While patches have been around for more than one year to support Hierarchical Z on the ATI/AMD R600 open-source driver, the Gallium3D support still hasn't been merged...

Samsung will be the foundation’s seventh platinum member, alongside industry heavyweights such as IBM, Intel, and Qualcomm. Samsung uses Linux extensively throughout its product line, particularly in the mobile space. Samsung said in a statement today that it intends to continue expanding its support for the open source operating system.

"We’re looking forward to increasing collaboration and support for our growing portfolio of Linux-based devices and to making contributions that advance Linux for all," said Samsung Electronics Vice President WonJoo Park in a statement.

Effective. Efficient. Secure. These are the hallmarks of Ubuntu and GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux is the go-to operating system for advanced software developers world wide, and yet may not be seen as a good fit for creative writers. Why is this? After all, what is one of the basic tasks performed by software developers?

Firefox 13 has been officially released June 5. This complete howto explains how to install Firefox on any Linux distribution, with or without replacing an existing Firefox installation.

Sure, you can use any of the fancy graphical tools for updating Linux or for adding new programs to the open source OS. But sometimes it's faster and more efficient to use brute force and a command line. For those days, you need to know these shell commands update and add programs to your Linux system. Behold.. the command line!

Rhythmbox 2.97 has been released a couple of days ago, bringing a new, more compact header layout which includes album art by default, along with a new podcast subscription interface and other minor new features and bug fixes.

Netflix announced it was launching its own Content Delivery Network (CDN) this week and it was open sourcing the hardware design and software. That makes it doubly interesting and could help ISPs ease the burden of Netflix traffic across their systems.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: June 5, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced an online "one-stop-shopping" solution for learning resources for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) program: http://www.lpimarketplace.com. This online resource will bring together the best in LPIC exam preparation materials, publishers, and courseware providers to assist IT professionals prepare for their career advancement in Linux and Open Source Software.

It's now been four months since Linux Game Publishing saw its new CEO, but there's been no announcements since the decade-old company saw some new blood at the healm...

As Linux attracts more developers, careful thinking and best practices can reduce the unique testing challenges it presents

The LLVM compiler infrastructure provides a powerful way to optimize your applications regardless of the programming language you use. Learn the basics of the LLVM in this first article of a two-part series. Building a custom compiler just got easier!

The list of planned features is very long and includes many UX and UI additions, improvements and bugfixes, but the two that I am looking forward to the most are KLook and StackFolder, two features already available by default on ROSA Marathon 2012 and also in ROSA Desktop 2012 beta.

The schedule for Akademy Workshops and Birds of a Feather sessions (BoFs) is available for registration. Organized in the Unconference style, people attending Akademy can select the preferred times and locations for topics they will lead. read more

Microsoft may not have fully endeared itself into the FOSS rank and file with its recent attempt to hold hands with the open source community. Feelings are not unanimous regarding the commercial software giant's decision in April to front a company-owned subsidiary called "Microsoft Open Technologies."

But with F17 comes gnome3. And I knew I'd have trouble, but also knew that most of the worst cr@p could be fixed with extensions, and I'd used 3.4 on my laptop enough to know it should be all somewhat usable. But christ, it's a "one step forward, one step back" kind of thing. Change the font sizes? No can do - until you install the tweak tool, because the standard settings panel still doesn't do something as fundamental as that. Ok, I knew it used to be broken, I knew the work-around, but it's still broken?

Creating your own Linux system can be a rather difficult thing to do and is not usually attempted by anyone other than advanced and power Linux users and veterans. Thankfully, Novell and SUSE has made the task very easy.

I got burned by Ubuntu again this morning - as if I needed to be reminded why I dislike it so much. I have a number of computers around here, and they all have a moderately complicated multi-boot configuration. Each of them has multiple Linux distributions installed, and most of them have some sort of Windows as well. I always use the openSuSE Legacy GRUB bootloader. The overall result is that it does what I want, and it's reliable. At least, it was reliable until I installed some Ubuntu updates this morning.

When Linus Torvalds sneezes, the Linux world catches the cold. We often find Linus complaining about Gnome, no surprises you will complain about the flaws in the technology you use and not about the one you never touch. But when he says something it carries a lot of weight as he shares his experience as a user and not the father of Linux. His rants are also important as it gives voice to thousands of users who share the same plight but no one listens to their problem. So, what irked Linus this time?

In this article is a look at the impact that compiler tuning has for the latest-generation Intel Ivy Bridge processors. Being tested is the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) while passing various architecture flags to look at the impact they have on the results.

This howto details how to add full multimedia support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x and its derivatives CentOS and Scientific Linux. A lot of more or less ugly codecs and DVD support included!