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Here's one of the names that many Linux gamers and Phoronix readers should know for his past open-source work, who since the beginning of May has been employed by Valve Software for their Linux enablement efforts.

For those that haven't heard, the IETF Codec Working Group has paired the technology from Skype's SILC codec with the CELT codec from Xiph.Org to form the Opus Interactive Audio Codec. This new codec can be used for VoIP, live music streaming, and more...

Learn about the basic milestones in the development, architecture, and operating principles of Security-Enhanced Linux, the powerful remix of Linux providing mandatory access control. This article was specially selected for translation by developerWorks Russia as an example of developerWorks world-wide offerings.

This news item is coming a bit belated due to LinuxTag, but the DRM graphics driver pull went in last week for the Linux 3.5 kernel. The open-source kernel graphics driver changes this time around are absolutely huge, complete with three new KMS drivers...

New build updates OpenStack and adds Gnome 3.4 As promised by the new Fedora boss Robyn Bergeron, version 17 of the Fedora Linux build aka "Beefy Miracle" is looking towards the cloud, with an update to OpenStack and new virtualization tools, as well as adding a spiffy new Gnome 3.4 interface.…

Put 'er there, Linux pal If you are tired of waiting for Red Hat to do an official port of its Enterprise Linux commercial distribution to the ARM architecture, well then Red Sleeve Linux has just what you are looking for.…

Wayland's Weston reference compositor now has built-in support for video capturing...

Up as an extra article from Munich is a comparison of Intel DRM drivers on recent Linux kernel releases while using Core i7 Ivy Bridge hardware. With the Linux 3.4 kernel there are definite Intel Linux graphics performance gains.

Microsoft will make it harder for customers to club together with lawyers to file lawsuits against its products. The company is rolling out new End User License Agreements (EULAs) that forbid punters from joining class-action proceedings.

This should go over well.. - Scott

A busy week on the Linux Planet as a new chapter is written in the saga of the company once known as Mandrake Linux.

Open-source handset versus Android and Apple First came the BlackBerry, bringing the smartphones for suits perfected by RIM to consumers. Next came the iPhone, which quickly hoovered up 23 per cent of the market. But the iPhone came at a price: the freedom of users and coders. It is tightly controlled by Apple, as Adobe quickly found to its cost with Flash.…

The native Linux support for the Wolfire Overgrowth game has finally arrived...

As the latest Intel Ivy Bridge Linux graphics benchmarks to publish, here is a comparison of some of the different desktop environment options of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS when using the Intel Linux graphics driver on the Core i7 3770K with its HD 4000 graphics. The desktop environments being compared include Unity, Unity 2D, KDE, and Xfce. The default Ubuntu Unity desktop with Compiz continues to have problems for the open-source friendly company's drivers.

For those curious what OpenGL gaming frame-rates are like if trying to run LLVMpipe on the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors, here are some numbers...

Intel continues to work on Linux kernel patches for ZPODD support...

After going into beta in March, the second and final beta release of NetBSD 6.0 is now available...

The FreeMedForms project is a free and open source medical project that includes an EMR, a prescribing assistant, an ICD10 coding assistant and an accountancy assistant. The FreeMedForms team is proud to announce the release of the new version 0.7.3 of the project. This release is mainly a debug release of the 0.7x series. Packages/binaries for: Ubuntu, MacOs, Windows are already available. Visit freemedforms.com

While Fedora 17 should be released next week, the ARM version is lagging behind and has just reached its own beta milestone...

LinuxTag 2012 ended this weekend at the Berlin Messe in Germany...

This weekend at LinuxTag 2012, an update was shared concerning the state of the Lima driver project -- the initiative to create a reverse-engineered, open-source ARM Mali driver...