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A clear majority in the council of the Swiss city of Bern has voted for a switch to free and open source IT solutions. It instructs the city's IT department to make future IT purchases platform and vendor neutral and to prefer using open source solutions. This way, the council wants to rid the city of IT vendor lock-in.

Many educators might have been hesitant in the past regarding embracing open source software. But not anymore as the number that has taken to open source software (OSS) has increased significantly over the years. As more teachers as well as institutions are now engaging with organizations such as Open Source Schools, SchoolForge among others. Consequently, these educators have begun to realize the potential inherent in OSS that can help transform education in many ways. Now, here is a list of open source applications that is available to assist educators in teaching as well as in inspiring their students:

Blocked services lead to 'degraded experience' Microsoft has admitted that Windows Phone 8 doesn't work as well with some of the internet's most popular properties as do other smartphone platforms, but it has pinned the blame on a surprising culprit: apparently, it's all Google's fault.…

Bug surfaces just as Apple trumpets feature in new Venus 'n' Serena ad Users of Apple's iPhone will have to wait until Monday for its latest bug to fix itself.…

The Linux kernel's development branch has recently acquired all the basic components needed to use 3D acceleration with any graphics core in NVIDIA's GeForce series

Linux-based OS targeting high-end handsets Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system, has announced a new version of Ubuntu designed specifically for smartphones.…

Samsung and NTT Docomo, the largest mobile telephony provider in Japan, are reportedly cooperating to develop a smartphone that uses Tizen, the Linux-based mobile operating system

Global research and advisory firm, Forrester, said, "The explosion in open source projects in the HTML, mobile, cloud and big data spaces such as Android, jQuery, PhoneGap, Sencha, Hadoop and Cordova are driving a new model and a golden age of 'app' development." Clearly, Linux had a great year—as did their many dedicated developers, communities, fans, and users. 

Dot Categories: DeveloperIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Version 0.4.0 of the Simon open-source speech recognition system has been released. This release, which represents years of development, brings many improvements...

Here's a look at some of the most popular PC components for Linux users this year...

Rekonq, the lightweight KDE web-browser that's built atop WebKit, has seen its stable 2.0 release this weekend...

Earlier this month the first Unreal Engine 3 game that's native to Linux was released, thanks to the work of Ryan "Icculus" Gordon. Now with UE3 being "officially" ported to Linux in a released game, after Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux failed to be released, other UE3-based games have hope for a Linux debut...

With the latest improvements made to the high-end Unigine Engine, there's now support for the seamless rendering of forests plus other improvements to its OpenGL renderer...

While 2013 is shaping up to be the best year for gaming on Linux with so many major milestones just ahead of us, it's not without some unfortunate sore points still present for gaming and the Linux desktop...

With 2012 coming to a close, here's a look at the most popular data that was uploaded to the collaborative OpenBenchmarking.org testing platform this calendar year...

If you were hoping you would be able to run your favorite Linux distribution on Microsoft's new Surface Tablet, it doesn't look like it will be an easy task to accomplish...

Vadim Girlin has published a new Mesa branch that integrates a shader disassembler and ISA information tables within the AMD R600 Gallium3D graphics driver...

Earlier this week when multi-process support was added to the HTML5 back-end in GTK+, a TODO list was also created that hints at some of the features being looked at for the "Broadway" back-end...

Nine years after the project was conceived, ResidualVM saw its first stable release last week...