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While OpenGL ES 3.0 has been speculated about for months, the specification will be formally released by the Khronos Group this summer...

This shouldn't come as a terrible surprise, but the Facebook Phone looks like it will be running atop Linux...

In my past several articles, I've looked at various packages to do all kinds of science. Sometimes, however, there just isn't a tool to solve a particular problem. That's the great thing about science. There is always something new to discover and study. But, this means it's up to you to develop the software tools you need to do your analysis. more>>

With the OpenMoko project being largely irrelevant these days and not vigorously pushing new software or hardware, the OpenMoko company has resorted to giving out USB IDs and MAC addresses...

Lennart Poettering recently spoke at a BarCamp in Warsaw, Poland where he talked about systemd. In the 100+ minute presentation, he covered where systemd came from, where it's going, and other details.

There's another Kickstarter-backed game that may be coming to Linux and it's causing Linux gamers to become extremely excited. In the past day I've received no less than 30~40 emails from readers talking about this possible Linux port of Carmageddon: Reincarnation...

The Linux OpenCL support for Intel CPUs is not in as good shape as the Intel Windows OpenCL support at this time, but here are some benchmarks that explore the Intel Ivy Bridge OpenCL performance under Linux.

GNUmed conference took place in Leipzig Germany today. We started roughly 9:30 am and pretty much continued until 3:30pm with few short breaks. The group consisted of 10 people. Apart from a representative of a local software support company and an network specialist there was one Debian packager, two physiotherapists and 5 physicians.

For those disappointed by the results of the open-source vs. closed-source AMD Radeon graphics driver results on Linux at this time, you may be more pleased going forward and carry hope for open-source AMD advancements in 2013...

Wayland's reference compositor, a.k.a. Weston, is now running on Google's Android...

With Fedora 17 having the codename of the Beefy Miracle, this week at LinuxTag in Berlin they're luring in new users with hot dogs. Meanwhile, the German-based openSUSE project continues to attract new followers with their beer...

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

The Linux 3.5 kernel will introduce support for the Sound Core3D audio cards that were launched by Creative last year...

Libusb has been forked as libusbx and it appears this library for user-space USB data transfers on Linux and other operating systems is gaining traction...

The effort to create an open-source graphics card suffered a premature and quiet death some time ago. Prior to LinuxTag Berlin later in the week, I have been visiting with Egbert Eich, the SUSE engineer, long-time X.Org developer, and former RadeonHD driver developer. Among the many Linux graphics topics being discussed in Frankfurt-Darmstadt, Egbert and I realized "that project to come up with an open-source graphics card" hadn't been heard of in years. Hell neither of us could recall the name of the main project even though it was presented just four years ago at FOSDEM.

With the OpenMoko project being largely irrelevant these days and not vigorously pushing new software or hardware, the OpenMoko company has resorted to giving out USB IDs and MAC addresses...

The Linux OpenCL support for Intel CPUs is not in as good shape as the Intel Windows OpenCL support at this time, but here are some benchmarks that explore the Intel Ivy Bridge OpenCL performance under Linux.

Linus Torvalds works weekends. We all knew that right? Just to reinforce that point, Torvalds released the third major kernel release of 2012 on Sunday. The Linux 3.4 release was a relatively rapid one, coming after two months and seven release candidates.

The arms race of supercomputers is fascinating to watch as their evolving architectures squeeze out more and more performance. One interesting fact about supercomputers is that they all run a version of Linux. To yield the greatest amount of power from an architecture, the SLURM open source job scheduler (used by the Chinese Tianhe-IA supercomputer, and the upcoming IBM Sequoia supercomputer) optimizes resource allocation and monitoring. Learn about SLURM and its approach to parallelizing workloads in clusters.

Never liked Windows 7 anyway ... Microsoft must really love Windows 8, or hate its legacy install base.…