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A massive Nouveau code push went through today affecting libdrm, the Mesa Gallium3D drivers, and the xf86-video-nouveau driver. The whole shebang should offer some performance improvements across the board while one driver has been completely rewritten and affects three generations of hardware...

Few days ago was released the new Nvidia driver 295.40, the new release added support for the following GPUs: GeForce GT 635M and GeForce 610M ,closed a security vulnerability which made it possible for attackers to reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary system memory.

As Linux users look forward to the release later in April 2012 of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Canonical’s decision to cease sponsoring Kubuntu as an official Ubuntu variant has passed largely under the radar — a sign, perhaps, that Kubuntu’s user base is small. But as the first member of the Ubuntu family to lose official endorsement, where is Kubuntu headed? And more importantly, what does its departure mean for the Ubuntu brand as a whole? Read on for some analysis.

OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, is beginning to attract an ecosystem of IT consultants, integrators and deployment specialists who can help customers with public cloud and private cloud projects. Key examples include ApriorIT, Cloud9ers, Grid Dynamics, Hastexo Professional Services, Mirantis and Piston Cloud Computing. Here's the update.

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc, a surprising new subsidiary from the folk at Redmond, has been created to work on open source projects...

This week we look at if it's time to give up on Java, the open source clouds wars between OpenStack and CloudStack and IT pro's favorite mobile apps.

This HOWTO describes how to protect your home / small enterprise network users from objectionable internet contents with help of HTTP proxy. Our goal is to set up a free Linux based server running Squid and deploy web filtering application on it saving bandwidth, speeding up web access and blocking obsessive and potentially illegal and malicious web files.

A set of Direct Rendering Manager patches have appeared to ease the development of targeting DRM drivers for embedded systems. There's also two new DRM drivers using this SDRM layer...

Syllable, an attempt to write a desktop-focused operating system from scratch using best practices, has notched up a new milestone, with its developers releasing 0.6.7 today.

Today’s interview is with Mark Hall one of the original core developers of the WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) data mining software. Mark currently works at Pentaho Corporation as technical lead for the WEKA project, among other duties. We go into WEKA’s history and a lot of resources for the machine learning enthusiast. Do not miss the video tutorial at the end of the interview. Enjoy!

I know you love robots. Who doesn’t? And if you are technology fan, you just have to adore them. Most robots are simply amazing. While robots are being used in many industries, I think the best use of robots is in the medical field, and the second best just has to be in toys.

The openSUSE Project, through Jos Poortvliet, announced last night, April 12th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the third Milestone release of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 operating system.

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 is now available for download and testing. It was expected to be released last week but there were some delays due to the move to a i686 desktop kernel for 32-bit systems.

Instagram’s back-end is powered by Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal running on EC2

Canonical announced last night, April 12th, on their Ubuntu One blog, that their working hard on a new feature called "Send to Ubuntu One."

The new version comes with a huge list of bug fixes but also a small yet useful feature which completes the Ubuntu Software Center Unity integration: when you click the install button, the application icon "flies" from the Ubuntu Software Center to the Unity launcher using an animation. Also, the launcher icon wiggles when the installation finishes.

I found out how to install and use Compiz 0.8.6 in MATE in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot", and I'm using a different GTK+ theme now. So now I have my old desktop back, for real this time!

Linux Tycoon, which the developer claims to be the “worlds premier Linux Distribution Building Simulation Game”, is getting some pretty big improvements in the near future. Not the least of which is a version for Android and iOS, as well as real-time online gameplay.

Canonical announced last evening, April 12th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available, fixing four security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.

Firefox developers are considering making web plugins like Adobe Flash an opt-in feature. A very early version of the “click-to-play” option for plugins is now available in the Firefox nightly channel. Whether or not the click-to-play approach that Mozilla is considering will ever become the default behavior for Firefox remains to be seen.