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There's some RFC patches out this week from Intel's Jesse Barnes that provides sprite support for the recently announced Weston Compositor for the Wayland Display Server...

For those who became more interested in the PandaBoard ES after it was benchmarked on Phoronix last week, here's some details about the Distributed Codec Engine found on this OMAP4 platform from Texas Instruments...

Search for PirateBay torrents on Ubuntu through Unity Dash by using the PirateBay Scope and Torrent Lens.

Welcome to the 181st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Motorola's new Wi-Fi Xyboard tablet goes on sale January 19th and customers can pre-order theirs now as they've just popped up on the Motorola store, just ahead of the CES show where they will be on display. There are 4 models, starting at 400 dollar minus a cent up to 600 dollar for the top model, the Xyboard 10.1, 32GB. All of the tablets come with the same Technical Specs, with Android Honeycomb, which is upgradeable to Ice Cream Sandwich. 5 MP rear and HD front webcams with digital zoom, LED flash and auto focus and weighing in a 603 grams. The choice of model is really down to selecting a 8.2 screen or a 10.1 and 16GB or 32GB.

Another feature coming to the Linux 3.3 kernel is Byte Queue Limits (BQL), which attempts to fight "bufferbloat" in networking...

Krita (click to enlarge) The Calligra and KDE on Windows teams are proud to announce the first testing version of the Calligra Suite Windows installer. Yes, Windows users, you can now use and help test the Calligra from the comfort of your own operating system with a single installer. read more

Wind River, the maker of embedded and mobile software, has presented Wind River Solution Accelerators for Android, a series of software modules which the company claims can accelerate Android device development and reduce engineering time and cost to help developers turn around high quality devices faster.

Well today we launched our new look at ReviewLinux.Com. For 7 years we have been bringing Reviews News to the Linux Community. We decided to go with the latest WordPress release 3.3.1 as well as a theme from StudioPress.

While Plymouth is now quite mature and didn't see too much new activity in 2011, it may be finding its way into another Linux distribution. The openSUSE developers are debating to use Plymouth as a replacement to bootsplash...

Shopping for a new Linux server isn't as easy as you might think. Here's a round-up of what's available for those of you who want to dance with the penguin.

The OLPC XO-3 Tablet is supposed to be unveiled on Sunday night at CES. While many probably remember seeing the somewhat unrealistic looking, early concept images from a couple of years ago, the final design looks quite obvious although I found the cover options surprising. A few pictures are included.

Hewlett-Packard's WebOS is making unexpected inroads in healthcare as medical researchers develop applications for the newly open-source platform.

Andrew B. Holbrook, a Stanford University Department of Radiology research associate, developed a WebOS application that operates an MRI scanner and allows radiologists and other medical personnel to view images captured by the MRI machine on a TouchPad tablet.

Time tracking software is a type of computer software that records time spent on tasks. This category of software can enable users to run billing reports, and prepare invoices for clients.

This week, we look at why developers and IT pros change jobs (more money, duh!), why your mobile app isn't selling and the analytics outlook for 2012.

Lenovo has announced a 13.3-inch notebook computer that has both Intel and ARM processors. The ThinkPad X1 Hybrid combines an Core i3, i5, or i7 CPU with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon, allowing users to toggle between Windows 7 and a Linux-based & Instant Media Mode& operating system whenever they want....

When talking yesterday about the likely DRM pull for the Linux 3.3 kernel there were a few graphics driver related items not on the list...

Red Eclipse, a total conversion mod of the "Cube 2" engine, is now at version 1.2 after racking up many changes to this open-source game...

The Radeon virtual memory (VM) support -- part of the Radeon HD 7000 series upbringing -- is now in the DRM next tree for landing in the Linux 3.3 kernel. Separate from the expected 3.3 graphics pull request, Linaro's "dma-buf" has already been sent to Linus Torvalds for merging into the mainline tree...

Wind River announced three modular versions of its Android development platform. Wind River Solution Accelerators for Android are available in User Experience, Connectivity and Medical modules, offering features such as multi-windowing support, DLNA media sharing, multimedia and sync interfaces, firmware management, IEEE 11073-compliant medical data exchange, and 30 percent faster boot-times, claims the company....