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For your viewing pleasure today are benchmarks of the DragonFlyBSD, Ubuntu, CentOS, Oracle Solaris Express, and OpenIndiana operating systems.

A second update to the Radeon DRM driver has been released that will be pulled into the Linux 3.8 kernel. This second Direct Render Manager update for the Radeon kernel driver provides new code from AMD that was kept internally for months but is now permitted for open-sourcing...

Ubuntu 12.10 includes features that are supposed to make it easier for users to find the stuff they want. One example is the Amazon integration which helps users by showing them stuff they might want if they are searching. According to Free Software Foundation (FSF) Founder Richard Stallman (RMS), Ubuntu is actually 'spying' on users.

Many heroes will remain unsung because there is no-one to tell their story. I first came across this story over eight years ago, and three years ago it became connected with my own. The hero in our story is an unlikely candidate for heroism: a public sector body in Germany, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

SUSE is now comfortable officially supporting the Btrfs file-system and considering it a "production ready" Linux file-system...

AMD's Ben Sander shares details about the heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) and how it will change the way people program in the future.

An evaluation of Android 4.2's new app verification system finds it somewhat lacking in detection capabilities when compared with existing AV engines in the cloud

After posting a rapid personal rebuff to Richard Stallman's criticism of Ubuntu's Amazon Lens and its search servers, Jono Bacon has apologised for calling Stallman's position "childish"

After last year discovering a major Linux kernel power regression that was widely debated until the Phoronix test automation software bisected the problem to get to the bottom of the situation, there's more active power regressions today on the Linux desktop. As I've mentioned on Twitter and in other articles in weeks prior there's a few regressions, but one of them for at least some notebooks is causing a very significant increase in power consumption. This situation that remains unresolved as of the Linux 3.7 kernel can cause the system to be going through about 20% more power.

The Video Game Awards happened on Friday night in California. During the event, Gabe Newell of Valve commented a bit more on their next-generation console / living room PC plans. To no surprise, Linux plays a big role...

Premiering with LLVM 3.2, which will debut later this month, is an automatic loop vectorizer. I've already delivered benchmarks of LLVM's new automatic loop vectorizer, but here's more details on this new LLVM compiler feature...

While there is the Wine project to run native Windows binaries on Linux (and other platforms), there's a new open-source project that's emerging for running Apple OS X binaries on Linux in a seamless manner...

Ubuntu developers continue investing a great deal of time and resources on ensuring the Linux distribution runs smoothly on the Google Nexus 7 tablet...

ArchBang 2012.12 was released this weekend as the latest version of the Arch Linux derivative distribution that is very lightweight and ships with the OpenBox window manager...

Konqui the friendly dragon has been KDE's mascot for over ten years. It's time for a new look!

I am now cleared to begin publishing Linux graphics benchmarks of Valve's Source Engine games on Linux plus other performance-related information from the Steam Linux client...

To adjust the rate at which how fast software updates are forced onto users, some Fedora and Red Hat developers have made a "Software Collections" proposal. The purpose of Software Collections is to allow users to install a package and choose between different versions of RPM-packaged software in parallel at run-time.

The ZevenOS developers have decided to bring their users an "early Christmas present" and have released version 5.0 of their Xubuntu-based distribution. ZevenOS 5.0 is designed to look like the BeOS of old.

NVIDIA is still working on a way to implement buffer-sharing for their closed-source Linux graphics driver...

It's been a few months since last delivering any Intel SNA acceleration architecture benchmarks but with all of the many recent xf86-video-intel 2.20.x driver releases, here's some new benchmarks comparing the UXA and SNA acceleration back-ends for Intel's Ivy Bridge hardware.