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Next week the Linux Foundation will announce that Twitter is joining them as a member organization...

Wayland and the reference Weston compositor have been updated against the upstream version 0.95 release for the packages to be found in the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10 release...

Unvanquished is still on track to become one of the most compelling and visually impressive multi-platform open-source games...

While VMware's VMWGFX graphics driver has been deemed stable for months, only now with the Mesa DRM library is the driver support being built by default...

Unfortunately, due to Nokia selling off Qt and the other recent changes, the beta for the Qt 5.0 tool-kit still isn't ready...

For those curious about the development progress on Steel Storm 2, a quick video update has been published...

No secret spying plan in new OS Microsoft has moved to quell fears that Windows 8 is building up a detailed record of all applications stored on client machines via its SmartScreen application.…

Without Wine, it's now possible to run Unreal Engine 3 on Linux...

The White House has open sourced the code to its Drupal-based petition platform "We the People" in an effort to enable other countries and organisations to set up the system for themselves

There once was a time when open source was all about peace, love, and Linux, a bottom-up community of self-selecting hackers that chummed together for the love of good code. As soon as Linux hit pay dirt, the nature of the open-source community changed forever. Today it is virtually impossible for a successful open-source project to hit critical mass without being consumed by venture capital dollars.

Next week the Linux Foundation will announce that Twitter is joining them as a member organization.

The first maintenance update to "Precise Pangolin", Ubuntu 12.04.1, has been released with fixes and minor enhancements. It also sees added support for Calxeda ARM SOCs and the debut of the Ubuntu Cloud Archive

Support for OpenVMS is set to be removed from Mesa due to lack of maintainership in four years and trimming out the OpenVMS can shave just over two thousand lines of code...

When life gives you lemons, everyone knows you should make lemonade. But what if life gives you Linux on a Retina MacBook Pro? That, too, has been shockingly referred to as a "lemon" in recent days, but the solution there isn't so clear. "If you are planning to buy one of the new Apple MacBook Pro notebooks with a Retina Display for use under Linux, hold off on your purchase," warned Phoronix's Michael Larabel.

As expected, with Marek Olšák requesting a delay in branching Mesa 9.0 so that he can land more features, support for multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) for more ATI/AMD Radeon hardware has landed plus there's improved anti-aliasing support for currently-supported GPUs...

The Fedora developers have decided to postpone the release of the first Fedora 18 alpha for a week. A large number of blocker bugs are still unresolved and the code base has not been tested enough

Sony has moved its open source DASH framework to Github for better collaboration; the hardware abstraction layer for sensors should help Android ROM makers to quickly enable more sensor hardware, especially on Sony phones

The Linux 3.5 kernel for Texas Instruments OMAP4 devices has finally been uploaded into the Quantal repository for Ubuntu 12.10. With the upgraded kernel release, here are some new benchmarks of the popular PandaBoard ES compared to earlier Ubuntu 12.10 development snapshots, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 from the dual-core Cortex-A9 ARMv7 development hardware.

Developers behind the open-source multi-platform Alien Arena game have managed some performance improvements as well as visual enhancements through some improvements to the engine's renderer...

“Classic Shell” can banish Interface Formerly Known As Metro Windows 8 user need not do without a Start button, thanks to an open source application titled Classic Shell that can banish the Interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM).…