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Dart is a language, library, toolset, and virtual machine from Google that greatly facilitates writing fast, interactive HTML5 apps without requiring you to be a JavaScript expert.

Kicking off the Linux benchmarks this weekend are some early numbers from the GCC 4.8 and LLVM/Clang 3.2 development compilers when running on Intel's latest-generation Core i7 "Ivy Bridge" processor. GCC 4.8 and LLVM/Clang 3.2 are still months away from being formally released, but this article provides a glimpse at how the open-source compiler battle is panning out.

A new release of the native ZFS file-system module implementation for the Linux kernel (not the FUSE-based ZFS) has been released by the team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...

Original code from when the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was first created has been newly re-implemented in C++

Kaspersky says there were 15,000 samples of Android malware and a tripling of the risk to users, but the less hyperbolic estimate from F-Secure estimates only 40 new variants in the wild

Using Qt Cordova, a developer is creating an application which will let Tizen specific applications run on Nokia's N9 and N950 MeeGo smartphones

QNX licences up for grabs to anyone with a chequebook Troubled phone biz Research in Motion wants to license its new BlackBerry 10 operating system to anyone who can afford it in the hope of climbing out of its rut.…

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JavaScript library handily beats all comers The jQuery open source JavaScript development library is now running on 50 per cent of all websites, according to the latest data from web technology surveyor W3Techs.…

Support within the DRM user-space library for handling PRIME import and export of GEM buffer objects has been committed for the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver...

In this second installment of our five-week course on the Go language, we explore Go's unusual approach to object orientation, its special built-in object types, the syntax for multiple return values, and how Go handles exceptions.

AMD quietly released an update to their preferred compiler, Open64, last week. The AMD Open64 4.5.2 compiler supports their next-generation "Piledriver" Fusion APUs...

The Slackware developers have delivered the first release candidate of Slackware 14. According to the developers, all bugs from the beta have been fixed and many packages were refreshed

The open source Rootbeer GPU compiler allows Java programs to be executed on graphics processors. The developer has included 39 separate test cases that all complete successfully on Linux and Windows

With OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenGL 4.3 there is now mandatory texture compression support in the form of ETC2, the Ericsson Texture Compression method...

XWayland, the implementation that allows for X11 applications to run inside Wayland by running a root-less X.Org Server, will be talked about next month for possible upstreaming in the X.Org Server...

A number of updates were published this morning to the OpenBenchmarking.org live server...

While lately I've been busy with trying out the Retina MacBook Pro under Linux, which has been a big problem and I'm not recommending the rMBP for Linux users at this time (more details soon), it looks like the new MacBook Air might also have some Linux woes. Outside of Apple, the Sony Vaio Z Ivy Bridge laptop also has some Linux problems of its own...

In the week ending 11 August - the CDE desktop was open sourced, plans were made for GNOME OS, Linux Mint forked Nautilus, and Damn Small Linux reappeared. Also, Digia acquired Qt from Nokia and LibreOffice 3.6.0 arrived

Following the news shared today that Ubuntu's delayed their Wayland System Compositor adoption from Ubuntu 12.10 to at least Ubuntu 13.04 there was the more positive news that there's an updated third-party spin of an Ubuntu derivative running Wayland. This article has some more information on that new "RebeccaBlack OS" release along with screenshots that provide a glimpse of where the Wayland adoption is at today.