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To some surprise, Gentoo FreeBSD -- the port of Gentoo running with the FreeBSD kernel rather than the Linux kernel -- is progressing...

Power consumption at Hetzner Online's data centres jumped by "about a megawatt" in the night from 30 June to 1 July due to a kernel bug which resulted in many Linux systems reaching 100% processor usage in dealing with the leap second added at midnight. The problem is described in an email sent by the web hosting company to customers, asking them to check their systems' CPU usage and, where necessary, to restart their systems in order to restore processor usage to normal levels.

Cast the Nets!

I thought we'd gone native this month and were going to show how to work nets and fish like the penguins do. I had a double-fisted, sheep-shanked, overhand cinch loop to teach you, along with the proper way to work your net in a snow storm.

While it's been less than two weeks since Wine 1.5.7 was released with dynamic device support, Wine 1.5.8 has already been released...

Google has released its grip on the development of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and moved it under the control of a steering committee comprising developers from Google, Sencha, Red Hat, ArcBees, Vaadin, mgwt and other GWT advocates such as Thomas Broyer, Christian Goudreau and Daniel Kurka. First released as open source in 2006 and controlled by Google, GWT will now be under the control of a committee which will set out a direction for future GWT development, approve new committers, review code, administer releases, adjust the GWT development processes and work as master committers on the GWT project.

Here's an interesting, but very brief, Gabe Newell interview from E3 where he mentions Linux...

Well it was a news-filled week last week, what with Google I/O going on, and the buzz about all the announcements made there still hasn't died down. Tongues have been wagging here in the Linux blogosphere as well, but one little tidbit has drawn particular attention. That's the Android-powered Nexus 7, specifically, the prospect of which has more than a few geeks drooling with abandon.

First devices featuring Firefox OS to be manufactured by TCL Communication Technology (Alcatel) and ZTE •    Leading global network operators back initiative, including Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Telenor Industry support is growing behind Mozilla’s.

Redmond boffins burn up CPUs so you don't have to Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death is the curse of Windows. Not just its appearance, mid way through some serious game play or spreadsheeting, but the messages themselves - digital monologues on the existence of a problem, its possible causes and how you can fix it.…

The World Wide Web Consortium has released a final draft of the Selectors API Level 1 specification and presented a working draft of Level 2 at the same time. The interface simplifies the process of searching for elements in HTML documents

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Multiple new features for a non-editable view of animations in Calligra; contour data is created and removed using image analysis from UI and a ClipCommand, a page/slide navigator control for the statusbar is used in Stage and Flow; Kexi gets an option for setting default length limit of text values and Kexi forms get Date Picker widget read more

While most haven't yet heard of the Unvanquished game, it's a promising but yet-to-be-released open-source multi-player game...

While most of the native Linux games that can be easily automated are built atop the id Tech engine or some spin-off there of the open-source id Tech 2/3/4 engines, here's something new to play with this weekend. There's also some early results to explore...

Community KeynoteAgustín Benito Bethencourt Yesterday, nearly 300 hackers grabbed their badges at the Estonian IT College in Tallinn and launched Akademy 2012. Mathias Klang's keynote, Freedom of Expression, got things going quickly with his urgent call to action for those who stand for freedom, which often disappears gradually and in a slow creep. Some people kicked off the conference on Friday night at the pre-registration party sponsored by Intel or even arrived earlier in the week to explore Tallinn and sample Estonia's beers. During the first day of Akademy, there were sessions on release management, Plasma Active, and the future of KDE and Qt technologies. read more

The Ultra KSM (UKSM) patch-set for the Linux kernel continues to be maintained for providing transparent full-system memory de-duplication for Linux...

Next week the annual Debian developers conference, DebConf, will begin in Managua, Nicaragua...

Gdev, the GPGPU run-time and resource management engines that provides an open-source NVIDIA CUDA run-time, is still being worked on at the University of California Santa Cruz in conjunction with PathScale...

After being in development for one month since the release of Suldal Milestone 3, the fourth development release of Phoronix Test Suite 4.0 was made available on Friday...

It looks like the VIA kernel mode-setting (KMS) code may soon go mainline...

Here's another interesting open-source project that's leveraging LLVM to do some interesting things with the Python programming language...