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John Carmack, the veteran game programmer that co-founded id Software and was the lead developer on the id Tech engine and their most popular game titles, has shared some new opinions on C/C++ programming as it pertains to the id Tech game engine...

The X.Org state tracker target, which allows for providing basic 2D/EXA acceleration with the X.Org Server over GPU shaders using a generic Gallium3D state tracker, is no longer supported by the R300 Gallium3D driver. Support has been eliminated and the X.Org state tracker targets for other Gallium3D drivers might also be dropped...

Three updates to CouchDB include fixes to stop cross-site scripting, code execution in client browsers through JSONP, and the ability to retrieve arbitrary files from Windows systems

Version 9 of the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg library is reported to compress lossless images more efficiently than PNG, giving a smaller file for the same image

For kicking off a new week of Linux benchmarking at Phoronix is a round of ARMv7 performance benchmarks using Linaro 12.12. The Linaro 12.12 release from December was compared to Ubuntu 12.10, Linaro 12.10, Fedora 17, and Arch Linux on the PandaBoard ES with its Texas Instruments OMAP4460 Cortex-A9 SoC.

The open-source AMD "R600g" Gallium3D driver is slowly but surely closing in on OpenGL 3.3 support for this open-source Linux graphics driver that supports from the Radeon HD 2000 through Radeon HD 6000 GPUs...

Replay Games has written into Phoronix to talk about two commercial game titles that they will be bringing to Linux...

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

In addition to the two peculiar games coming to Linux being done by Replay Games, another unique title coming to Linux is Euro Truck Simulator 2...

For those not busy playing around with the Snowshoe web-browser, the beta of Mozilla Firefox 19.0 has been released and is ready for testing...

For those developers wishing to dive into the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) world on Linux, committed to the libdrm tree are improved man pages that cover various areas of this key component to the open-source Linux graphics stack...

NetBSD developers have announced the release of pkgsrc-2012Q4, the latest quarterly release of the package management system used by many BSD operating systems and other Unix-like platforms. This latest release also marks fifteen years that this open-source "package source" program has been around...

Last year UBO and TBO for the Radeon R600 Gallium3D driver was talked about and early patches proposed, but merged on Friday was finally this support for Uniform Buffer Objects and Texture Buffer Objects. With the OpenGL UBO/TBO support, the Radeon R600g driver is now advertising GLSL 1.40 as needed for OpenGL 3.1 compliance...

In the week ending 12 January - Systemd 197, Open webOS ported to the Nexus 7, NASA open source project slowed by commercial vendor, VMware stakes IP claim on Vert.x and Compiz lead developer sees no future under Wayland

Microsoft's Open Technologies company has put together a "VM Depot" of preprepared virtual machines for the Microsoft Azure cloud, composed of free and open source software

OUYA and Kill Screen have announced a programming competition with prizes totalling $45,000; they are hoping it will interest game developers in the new console

I was at LISA to present a paper I had written as part of my Ph.D. studies, but LISA is not really what one would consider an "academic" conference. In fact, many of the folks representing universities were from their IT departments, not their faculty. The main focus of the conference is instead on the training sessions and workshops held throughout the week. I was rather concerned that I would have a hard time connecting with anyone at the conference, since I am most definitely an academic, and even lean more towards the developer side than a system administrator.

Veterans Affairs holding contest to upgrade systems The US Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to upgrade the 25-year-old software that powers its nationwide health care system, and it's betting real money that open source is the way to do it.…

The year 2012 had many important FOSS legal developments which reflects the continued increase in FOSS use. FOSS projects have increased from 600,000 in 2010 to 900,000 by December 2012. In addition, a Dr. Dobbs' survey in the third quarter of 2012 stated that more than 90% of developers are using FOSS in two of the most rapidly growing areas, cloud computing and mobile computing. Continuing the tradition of looking back over the top ten legal developments in FOSS, my selection of the top ten issues for 2012 are as follows.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 was officially released on Tuesday. Hitting RHEL 5.9 also marks the start of Production Phase 2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as part of the company's 10-year life-cycle...