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At last week's Linux COnnect Europe 2013 conference, there was a presentation regarding bringing Android's HWComposer on Linux KMS.

Awk's features have advanced considerably in the last decade — such as the addition of a debugger and a profiler — all without removing any of the elegance or terseness of the fabled little language.

As I write these words in mid-February 2013, many Ruby on Rails developers are worried. The framework that so many of us have used and enjoyed for so many years, turned out to have some serious security flaws. It's not just the sort of flaw that can allow someone to modify your Web site either;these holes meant that a properly armed attacker could execute arbitrary code on your server.

The VLC 2.1 media player update is due out in the coming weeks and with it will come several new features for the open-source program.

The open-source Eucalyptus cloud project has just released a new version that's improved its Amazon Web Service cloud interoperability.

There is a popular theory about the ills of the patent system that there is nothing wrong with software patents. According to this theory, all the problems are due either to bad actors called trolls or to poor quality patents. Then, as the logic goes, the patent system may be fixed by curtailing the activities of bad actors and by improving the quality of the patents. Is that so?

Last month we shared slides from a presentation about Linux as a gaming platform. After that generated much interest, the developer of this presentation has revised his slides.

Intel's Ironlake hardware may be very old and not nearly as nice as the latest generation Haswell parts, but shipped today was a new patch-set for implementing hardware context support.

Quite often on Phoronix we cover various experimental open-source projects that catch our interest as they're interesting from a technical perspective, but often these projects don't end up stabilizing due to limited manpower or prove to be too technically ambitious. Here's a look at some of the less heard of open-source projects that have previously been covered on Phoronix to look at where they are today.

Chris Wilson has put out another speedy X.Org Intel graphics driver release, this time bumping it to version 2.21.12.

The main event on the KDE Calendar has begun. Akademy 2013 in Bilbao, the Basque Country, Spain is underway.

The Wayland LiveCD has been updated against the new Wayland/Weston 1.2 release. This Linux LiveCD also ships with the Wayland-enabled GTK3, Qt5, SDL, and Enlightenment EFL tool-kits for easily trying out this next-generation Linux display stack.

Our friends at Geeks3D have updated their GpuTest program so that its OpenGL 3.x benchmarks will work under the Mesa and Gallium3D open-source Linux graphics drivers. GpuTest 0.5.0 was released this week as the updated cross-platform 64-bit OpenGL graphics benchmark.

The fifth release candidate of the feature-rich Wine 1.6 for running Windows applications on Linux and other operating systems is now available. Having been in a code freeze since the first release candidate in early June, the RC5 release today just contains bug-fixes.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in HAProxy, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service. HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Epic Games is working on a new first person shooter that's said to be a triple-A game, but it's not necessarily part of their famed Unreal series. During a talk at a developer conference this week, Epic's Tim Sweeney confirmed the company is working on an "unannounced triple-A shooter" game. This is beyond smaller projects the company has recently been trialing.

Unigine Corp has readied another batch of changes for their visually stunning and multi-platform Unigine Engine. The latest revision to the Unigine Engine introduces a PhysicalNoise object for simulating a force field affecting particles/objects with spatial 3D noise, various render improvements, additions to the engine's C++ API, better UnigineScript support, tooling improvements, and more.

The GNOME 3.9.4 development release was made available this week with many changes to its desktop stack ahead of the official GNOME 3.10 release in September. With this release, GNOME is in better shape when running with Wayland.

Nearing the end of the Linux 3.11 kernel with most (if not all) of the interesting pull requests merged, here's a look at the exciting features that will premiere in this next Linux kernel release.

Deutsche Telekom opened sales of the Firefox OS-based Alcatel One Touch Fire phone in Poland today for one Zloty (30 cents) on contract, a few days after Telefonica launched the ZTE Open for 69 Euros ($89) in Spain. On July 11, Mozilla released Firefox OS Simulator 4.0, which adds features like a “Connect” button and simulated touch events.