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Water Coolers, Cubicles, Committee Meetings and a Penguin

One of these things doesn't belong in the workplace. If you ask most people in the business world, they'd say a penguin is a silly thing to keep at work. Those of us in the server room, however, just snicker at such foolishness. I'll take Linux over a committee meeting any day!

At long last, NVIDIA confirms they are working on supporting their multi-GPU Optimus Technology under Linux with their proprietary graphics driver...

The OpenEMR community has released version 4.1.1. This new version continues to maintain Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification and has numerous new features including 19 language translations, full support for ICD9, ICD10 and SNOMED coding, support for 5010 billing standards, compatibility with new PHP and MySQL versions and improved performance. OpenEMR 4.1.1 can be downloaded from the OpenEMR Project website at http://www.open-emr.org . Thanks goes to the OpenEMR community for producing this release.

The beta of the open webOS is now available for testing...

Google has released an update to the 21.x branch of its Chrome browser, closing a total of nine security holes including three high-severity problems

The developer command line is the standout feature in the forthcoming Firefox 16, which has just entered beta

The creative director for Overhaul Games' Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition title has shared that they're looking at making a native Linux port...

Intel's Ian Romanick mailed in the patch today to bump the Mesa master version to 9.0...

The library that's too cute to kill The effort towards a Qt library for Android is progressing, with a fourth and final alpha release being sent out the door – despite confidence in the platform having steadily eroded since Nokia dumped it.…

Improved WebGL support for in-browser 3D gaming Another month, another Firefox update. But although Mozilla's breakneck release pace can be bewildering for some users, new Firefox versions continue to bring performance, stability, and security improvements – and in the case of the newly released Firefox 15, some nice goodies for gamers.…

It's a good thing looks aren't that important, right? Review Microsoft offended thousands in April with a preview of its next Visual Studio, a John-Major-inspired, grey affair intended to take Microsoft’s all-encompassing IDE loser to the look of Windows 8.…

The Yocto Project is an open source project formed with the goal of making embedded Linux development easier and more portable across architectures. This article introduces the project and provides a step-by-step walk through on how to get started.

When you can't just cram it into tables Data is easy. It comes in tables that store facts and figures about particular items – say, people. The columns define the data to be stored about each item (such as FirstName, LastName) and there is one row for each person. Most tabular database engines are relational and we use SQL for querying. So this "Big Data" thang must simply be very, very big tables with lots and lots of rows.…

The microblogging company will officially join the Foundation at the start of LinuxCon North America, alongside distributed filesystem maker Inktank and server builder Servergy

The EnterpriseDB developers have extended their replication technology for the open source PostgreSQL relational database to include the capability to use multiple master nodes. This allows write operations to be shared across clusters

Plex always has been the Mac-friendly offshoot of XBMC. I've never considered using an Apple product for my home media center, so I've never really put much thought into it. Things have changed recently, however, and now the folks behind Plex have given the Linux community an awesome media server.

For those curious whether the forthcoming Oracle VirtualBox 4.2 virtualization platform delivers on any performance enhancements, at least as it pertains to Linux virtualization, here are some quick benchmarks.

Following the recent Intel HD 2500 Ivy Bridge Linux graphics benchmarks, here's some more numbers that were recently collected when benchmarking the latest Linux graphics code with the Intel HD 2000/3000/4000 graphics cores when clocking the rest of the CPU to a common speed...

Developers at Intel's Open-Source Technology Center have made more improvements to their open-source Linux graphics driver to benefit Valve's upcoming release of their Left 4 Dead 2 game that's powered by the Source Engine natively on Linux...

Chris Wilson has released yet another driver update in the xf86-video-intel 2.20 series...