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Recently I showed off some Intel DRM benchmarks from the Linux 3.3 kernel along with what will be in the Linux 3.4 kernel via drm-next. These results indicated some performance improvements on the side of Intel Sandy Bridge hardware, but how do the new kernel and Linux 3.4 impact the discrete Radeon graphics? Here's some benchmarks covering that side of the graphics table.

Mark Shuttleworth’s eagerness to declare victory over RHEL notwithstanding, it’s clear that Ubuntu still has a lot of growing to do in the server room. But it came one step closer to becoming a leader on that front recently with the introduction of official Ubuntu cloud images to Amazon’s EC2 interface. Here are the details, and what they say about where Ubuntu may be headed in the cloud.

HP updates its open source roadmap for webos.

WebGL is an amazing technology that allows hardware accelerated 3D animations and effects in browsers without any need of 3rd party plugins. Firefox has enabled WebGL for most of the modern graphic cards. However if you have an older graphic card, WebGL may be disabled in Firefox as Mozilla devs have blacklisted older GPUs based on driver version numbers. This is good step which ensures more stability and less crashes. However, your graphic card may be blacklisted even if it supports WebGL.

After seven release candidates, Linus Torvalds proudly announced a few hours ago, March 18th, the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.3, which now includes code from the Android project.

First the engine of the minibus died, and then the lights. In the sudden darkness, Frank’s light-bedazzled eyes could see nothing, leaving him temporarily immobilized. He heard the door to the VW open and close quietly. And then, a quiet voice from a shadowy figure by his side.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on CentOS 6.2 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

After seven release candidates, the Linux 3.3 kernel has been declared stable. The major update to the kernel is the inclusion of Android support, however there are plenty of other new features...

I was really impressed by the system. The only issues, which I noticed in my test, were minor ones - the absence of English translation to one of screen elements, and non-standard icons for some applications. They are not that important, are they?

The level of the distribution produced by ALT Linux team is impressive.

One of the common issues facing Ubuntu users after installing or upgrading Ubuntu is the nosound problem, there are many reason for this issue, sometime is related to a volume setting configuration, misconfiguration or can be that you have a new hardware that is not supported. In this post will try to list some solutions to nosound issue on Ubuntu.

Linus Torvalds officially released the Linux 3.3 kernel on Sunday afternoon...

Motif, a leading global BPO and KPO services provider, organizes many philanthropic events throughout the year, such as the Motif Charity Walk, Blood Donation Drive and Christmas Celebrations for the underprivileged.

It turns out there's a rather serious issue for some systems when having Wayland support within GTK+ exposed, which may hinder the Wayland GTK+ availability in the near-term...

Mobeen Iqbal has announced the availability of the Vinux 3.0.2. This Ubuntu based operating system is specially developed for blind and visually impaired users. Hence it contain screen-reader, full screen magnification and support for Braille display.

Arriving this weekend for the open-source Intel DRM graphics driver for the Linux kernel were new -- nearly re-written -- hardware context support patches...

In our previous post which you can read here, we mentioned that Gedit, Totem, Remmina and Brasero received quicklist support. Well two more applications have been added to that list.

Back in January I wrote about how open-source compilers are quickly maturing for Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs and offering early support for Intel Ivy Bridge and Intel Haswell processors. Both GCC and LLVM have been quick to take advantage of the new instruction set extensions and other capabilities of these latest -- and very impressive -- Intel processors. With the release of GCC 4.7 quickly approaching, here is an updated set of GNU Compiler Collection Fortran/C/C++ benchmarks from the Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition test-bed.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Work on diagram auto layout feature in Umbrello 'Create new class' dialog for Ruby support in KDevelop Work on object custom dimensions tabs and support for Matlab's .mat format in Kst KStars gains a horizontal coordinates grid read more

Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of second beta version of Mageia 2 Linux on 15th Mar, 2012. This version include KDE 4.8.1, GNOME 3.3 and Linux Kernel 3.3-rc7 with many other new updates. This version is specially for testing and bug fixing.

Chromium OS Lime builds have been updated and now they have new Aura based interface. If you were waiting to try the new Aura based Chromium OS desktop, this is the right time as Lime builds come with extra hardware and java support.