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At the MySQL Connect conference, Oracle has presented a preview of MySQL Cluster 7.3. It is the first to support foreign keys and offers an experimental interface for the Node.js JavaScript server

The new kernel offers a hybrid standby feature, can cut off the power to PCIe chips and includes a new framework for userspace drivers. Linux 3.6 also offers improved support for current MacBook models; other new features include security improvements for the temp directory as well as quota and backup features for Btrfs

The Slackware developers have released version 14 of the oldest still-maintained Linux distribution, with kernel version 3.2.29 and numerous updated components such as the Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5 desktop interfaces

A major new feature for desktops and laptops is hybrid sleep, long supported by Mac OS X and Windows. There have also been updates to Btrfs support

A patch has emerged that provides "AutoFDO" support for the GCC compiler for automated feedback-directed optimizations...

Keith Packard has outlined plans for "DRI-Next", the improvements to the Direct Rendering Infrastructure that were brewed earlier this month at XDC2012 Nürnberg...

Chris Wilson has released yet another xf86-video-intel 2.20.x driver. This time around, the 2.20.9 point release brings back X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC) and also fixes a critical bug...

It's time for another bi-weekly development Wine release for running Windows binaries on Linux and other operating systems...

Taking a brief break from his direct work on Wayland, Kristian Høgsberg has published his "Render Nodes" work for DRM2 following the recent DRM2 proposal...

Thanks to the Google Summer of Code, the openSUSE distribution made progress on several fronts...

Today's been quite a busy news day for a Friday, but it's not over yet. Slackware 14.0 was released today after being in development for more than one year...

While it's been a number of days since mentioning anything on Intel's forthcoming Valley View Atom SoC, the open-source graphics driver support continues to mature...

After being in beta for a while, HP's Open webOS has a new release: version 1.0...

An alpha release of the Tizen 2.0 SDK with source-code was released this week...

The Joomla developers have released version 3.0 of their open source CMS. Many new features, and new standard templates for the web site and administrator areas that also work on mobile devices, justify the major version jump

As part of a facelift, the Nautilus file manager has gained and lost a number of features. The Boxes VM tool and the GNOME Disks utility, which are also of interest for Cinnamon and Unity users, have matured. The account manager now allows programs to access Facebook friends and Microsoft's SkyDrive

A decade of real choice - there's no app for that Open ... and Shut It's hard to believe it now, but not too long ago the web was dangerously close to being owned by one vendor: Microsoft.…

AMD released a new development tool suite this week called CodeXL that focuses upon heterogeneous compute support across GPUs, CPUs, and APUs...

Smartphones from nearly every manufacturer are exposed to an Android control code vulnerability which can kill a phone's SIM card. The causes of the problem have now been identified

There's new improvements within the wonderful open-source APITrace utility for better profiling OpenGL games/applications...