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Due to a 'technical glitch', Microsoft's legally-mandated browser screen was not displayed to Windows users for nearly 15 months. According to data from Mozilla, this resulted in the loss of 6 to 9 million downloads of Firefox alone

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Copenhagen today, developers discussed audio latency for gaming on the premise that "audio latency is relatively high on Linux and we need to be competitive with other platforms."..

It was only days ago that an EXT4 file-system corruption bug affected the stable Linux kernel, which was finally patched yesterday. Now though it looks like there may be another EXT4 corruption bug affecting the stable kernel...

The general X.Org discussion during the Ubuntu Developer Summit was held today to discuss X.Org/Wayland expectations for the Ubuntu 13.04 release...

For those pulling down the Git master of the xf86-video-ati X.Org graphics driver this week, 2D color tiling is finally enabled by default for Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000/5000/6000 series graphics cards, from R6xx through the "Cayman" GPUs...

This edition looks at Ubuntu on an ARM-based Chromebook, a new Linux Mint store, a request for a new Linux minion, a software upgrade for the OUYA games console, and the Tweetian Twitter app going open source

Yesterday I wrote about how Fedora 18 wasn't looking too good in terms of being delayed five times already and is still facing some problems with incomplete features. Today the situation was worsened by yet another delay...

Royalty free open standards are finally established as a requirement of UK Government procurement; this helps level the playing field for open source and free software solutions

Linux support for UEFI Secure Boot has been evolving and prime mover behind that support, Matthew Garrett, has now provided an overview of the current status of how Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu are managing the challenge

Porn servers disclose their visitors' IP addresses, and payment processing services put their customers' active session tokens at risk. The cause, however, is no clever hack, but rather shoddy administration

Phone maker VERY EXCITED about mega mobe probe RIM reckons more than 50 network operators are testing its BlackBerry 10 handsets, which sounds impressive until one remembers that testing is just a first step on the long journey to market.…

Each year automobile companies try to predict what new features consumers will want in their cars. If their predictions are right, they are richly rewarded with increased car sales. If they are wrong, they suffer the financial consequences. But wait, is that the best way to design cars? What if car companies invited consumers to the table as equal partners in the design process? The way I see it, consumers could be buying cars they co-designed—reducing the gigantic financial risk to car companies, not to mention the waste of never-purchased vehicles.

The beta for version 2.6 of the suite of open source productivity applications includes improvements to ODF handling and adds new features to the Plan and Kexi tools

It's no secret that many here in the Linux blogosphere greeted Windows 8 with jubilation -- not because they had any intention of using it, but because of the opportunity they think it represents for Linux to capture a greater proportion of mainstream users. That, indeed, was the hot topic du jour last week, but this week the conversation has shifted slightly.

New role for OS X 10.7 Lion's CoreStorage logical volume manager Top marks to hardware hacker Patrick Stein who has discovered that Apple’s Fusion Drive technology, which combines separate SSD and HDD storage into a single volume, can be added to old Macs. And he’s added one to his own Mac Pro.…

Now that Ubuntu's been ported to the Google Nexus 7 and there's other interesting Ubuntu work going into the tablet/mobile-space, developers want more open-source games ported to using OpenGL ES rather than the full OpenGL stack...

Following yesterday's article comparing the AMD Radeon Linux drivers on Ubuntu 12.10, Marek Olšák looked into some of the cases where the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver was much slower than the proprietary Catalyst driver. Already with one patch that touches only two dozen lines of code, Marek was able to quadruple the open-source driver frame-rate for at least one game...

Optimization, with its Lean Sig Sigma standard-bearer, has always been the objective of management for the industrial era, designed to control variability and increase productivity. In the information age, with the pace of change accelerating, innovation commercialization will be equally as critical to a firm's ongoing viability.

With Ubuntu 13.04 there will likely be an AArch64 (64-bit ARM) spin of the popular Linux distribution...

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