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Customize Firefox to Show Support for Your Country

Mozilla Firefox is a global community of passionate people working together to make the Web better. This summer, athletes from around the world are coming together to support and represent their countries in a global competition. To celebrate the spirit … Continue reading

Oracle lowers the flag on Fortress language project

The latest ex-Sun effort to be felled by Larry's axe Oracle is shuttering the long-running Fortress programming language research project, in the database giant's latest move to divest itself of the less-profitable pieces of Sun Microsystems' software portfolio.…

Call for Articles - Drupal

Are you a Drupal developer anxious to share your knowledge with Linux Journal's audience?  We're currently accepting article proposals for an upcoming special Drupal issue, and we'd love to see your ideas.

Intel and Valve collaborate to develop open source graphics drivers

According to a blog post by Intel Software Engineer Ian Romanick, the Linux development teams from Intel and game developer Valve are collaborating to develop the open source drivers and the game engine for the forthcoming Linux port of first-person shooter game Left for Dead 2 (L4D2). Romanick said that the two parties met at Valve's headquarters in Bellevue, Washington to track down performance bottlenecks in the game and driver code, and to investigate the potential requirements for further OpenGL features.

Facebook, Last.fm and pals to reach deep into Ubuntu

Websites will be able to hook into the Ubuntu desktop in the Linux distro's next release - allowing, for example, users to receive "new message" pings from webmail services. Canonical boss and spaceman Mark Shuttleworth announced the availability of "web apps" in Ubuntu 12.10, due in October, at OSCON, Canonical marketing veep Steve George blogged. The new feature will make it possible for users to quickly jump to the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM, eBay and GMail from the desktop, he added.

Akademy 2012 Survey and Videos

Now that Akademy 2012 is behind us and life is getting back to normal, we can now share videos and slides from the conference talks with those who weren't there. read more

Running The Radeon Driver With GLAMOR

While the open-source ATI driver doesn't have some super fast 2D acceleration architecture equivalent to Intel's SNA or a developer making prolific contributions to the DDX, as of earlier this month the Radeon driver has support for GLAMOR...

HTML 5 gets forked up

Judean Popular People's Front and Popular Front of Judea go their own way on web standard Splitters! That's the cry echoing out across the web HTML 5 today, as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) have decided to pursue their common agenda of a marvellous new standard for the web by doing things differently.…

Electronic Arts Lacks Exciting Linux Strategy

With all the excitement this week about Valve confirming their Linux plans on their blog and other worthwhile developments like collaborating with Intel on their open-source Mesa driver and Valve wanting to do things for open-source, EA and their Linux efforts have once again been brought up.

Firefox 15 reduces memory consumption

The new beta version of Firefox 15 promises to use significantly less memory than its predecessors. The developers say they have improved the way the browser handles memory allocated to add-ons, potentially eliminating many memory leaks

Gatling: High-Performance Open-Source Server

After recently bringing up the G-WAN web-server, a Phoronix reader brought up Gatling. The Gatling software is a high-performance open-source web-server not known as widely as Apache, Nginx, or lighttpd...

Nouveau X.Org Driver Less Than 30k Lines Of Code

After delivering some development statistics on the xf86-video-nouveau driver yesterday, today there's a look at the development activity surrounding xf86-video-nouveau. This is the X.Org driver for Nouveau, the reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver...

Talking Linux Gaming On The Linux Action Show

As I alluded to yesterday, on Sunday I'll be on the Linux Action Show broadcast to discuss Linux gaming with the recent public Valve Linux news that I have been exclusively talking about for months/years, etc...

Linux 3.5 released

The 3.5 Linux kernel improves support for hybrid graphics, as well as DisplayLink and USB monitors in Linux. The new tracing framework in the kernel can now also monitor userspace software

KDE Commit-Digest for 8th July 2012

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Kexi's data handling library KexiDB became a common component of Calligra Remote installer implemented in Plasmate Work on the GUI for video slide shows in Kipi read more

Linux 3.5 Kernel Officially Released

The Linux 3.5 kernel has been officially released...

Cinnamon Desktop Comes To Fedora 17

Cinnamon, the project out of the Linux Mint camp for a new desktop that's based upon upstream GNOME but brings back memories of GNOME2, has now entered Fedora 17 through the stable updates repository...

X.Org Foundation Confirms 501(c)(3) Status

The X.Org Foundation has finally officially announced to their members and the public via their web-site that they're now a 501(c)(3) organization...

Intel X.Org Driver Explodes Thanks To Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson is now in effective control of the xf86-video-intel open-source graphics driver with being responsible for nearly all of its development activity. Plus there's some other interesting statistics to share...

Microsoft releases the .NET OR mapper as open source

Now open sourced, ADO.NET Entity Framework will continue to be an official Microsoft product, but the company wants to allow external developers to contribute new features to the object-relational mapper

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