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Earlier today, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the Open Book Project, an initiative to expand access to free, high-quality educational materials in Arabic, with a particular focus on science and technolog

The release of LLVM 3.3 is still months away, but one of its features already are notable improvements to its loop vectorizer...

While Mesa 9.1 represents a number of improvements to this open-source graphics stack that were made over the past six months, as far as end-users are concerned, there's still a number of shortcomings...

Valve has launched `Steam for Linux Celebration Sale` and all the games available for Linux are now on sale. During this campaign, the discount ranges between -50% and -80%.

This means that you can get Serious Sam 3 with a -80% discount (5,59 €), Counter Strike: Source with -75% (3,74 €), Half Life with -75% (1,99 €), Trine 2 with -75% (2,79 €), Crusader Kings II with a -75% discount (9.99 €) and so on.

On Monday was the original "work in progress" patch to improve the DIO code in the Linux kernel. As Overstreet wrote then, "The end result is _vastly_ simpler - direct-io.c is now ~700 lines, vs. ~1300 previously. dio_submit is almost gone, I'm down to 4 things left in it. It relies heavily on my block layer patches for efficient bio splitting, and making generic_make_request() take arbitrary size bios...It also gets rid of the various differences between async and sync requests - previously, for async reads it marked pages dirty before submitting the io (in process context), then on completion punts to worqueue to redirty the pages if any need to be. This now happens for sync reads, too."

Chances are you know about the digital divide, but not about the Kramden Institute's work to help hardworking students in grades 3 - 12 who don't have a computer in their home cross it. You also might be shocked to learn that while information technology seems to be ubiquitous, a full 23% of U.S. households still don't have a computer.

Vadim Girlin has revived his "shader optimization" branch of Mesa that focuses upon improvements to the AMD R600 Gallium3D graphics driver...

Erin Robinson, the Information and Virtual Community Director for the Foundation for Earth Science, the management arm of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (@ESIPFed), says that earth science matters to all of us. For example, when Hurrican Sandy devastated areas of the country, responders needed information on flood zones and what hospitals were available.

Code Synthesis has released version 2.2 of their ODB C++ Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) code...

The third development milestone release of Phoronix Test Suite 4.4-Forsand is now available. Incorporated into this latest development snapshot are enhancements for improving the Apple OS X benchmarking support, detection of the new Linux F2FS file-system, and other improvements...

As the creator of ROS, Willow Garage, pivots into a commercial business, the open source Robot Operating System is transitioning to the foundation established for it last year, where it will continue development

Opera has announced that it will cease development on its proprietary Presto rendering engine in favour of a switch to the open source WebKit and V8 engines. The company is also contributing to the Chromium project

The NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver has received a set of patches today that provide various enhancements to this open-source ARM SoC graphics driver...

In this edition: two competitions for open code and data, a new nginx version, Coreboot for the HP Pavilion Chromebook, a new version of the WordPress iOS app, the Dalvik VM on Xubuntu, and the NSH command line

Minor over-the-air release to arrive in waves Owners of Google Nexus devices have reason to hover anxiously over their System Updates screens once again, with reports surfacing that the Chocolate Factory has slowly begun rolling out the latest update to Android 4.2 "Jelly Bean".…

The first stable release of the XBMC 12 based, open source media centre distribution turns the Raspberry Pi into an HD capable entertainment centre that can be installed without previous Linux experience

Oracle plans to release iOS and Android ports of JavaFX as open source in the coming weeks and months. Both will run with an unreleased Java SE for iOS/Android and with OpenJDK ports

Two bugs in Rails and a bug in the JSON gem expose Ruby on Rails applications to new attacks, some of which involve the possibility of remote code execution. Updating is recommended

In this article are benchmarks of the past two Ubuntu Long-Term Support releases (Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS) compared to the latest Ubuntu 13.04 development state. Being looked at specifically for this round of testing is the AMD Radeon Linux graphics performance with the latest open-source driver compared to an older Catalyst driver. For an AMD Radeon HD 4800 series graphics card, the current state of the open-source graphics driver on Linux is beginning to outperform an old AMD Catalyst driver from 2010 for select Linux OpenGL games.

It may not come as a surprise to anyone who regularly reads my column that I tried to be first in line to order the Raspberry Pi. I mean, what's not to like in a $35, 700MHz, 256MB of RAM computer with HDMI out that runs Linux? In the end, I didn't make the first batch of 10,000, but I wasn't too far behind either.