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Dell and Calxeda have donated a concept ARM-based server to the Apache Software Foundation. With the server, ASF developers can build and test software like Hadoop, Cassandra and the Apache Server on ARM architecture

Ryan Gordon, the well-known Linux game porter and developer of SDL and other open-source projects, along with Sam Lantinga, another key SDL developer and recent hire for Valve's Linux team, have proposed a window manager change to work out the full-screen X11 window mess...

The latest beta of the Russian firm's Linux distribution adds a new boot menu option for installing on lower-spec hardware, includes full support for UEFI and updates a number of the included components

Which collaboration tool is most widely adapted in your organization? IRC (chat) Mailings lists/email Bug tracker Wikis Teleconference Version Control System EtherPad Facebook Groups Most businesses today know that utilizing collaboration tools increases the liklihood success for a project, and for the organization as a whole. When people work together, brain power is multiplied; not only does more work tend to get done, but better work. The loner mentality—whether it's applied to how we think about office space, meetings, or project management—just doesn't measure up.

A bug introduced with version 3.6.2 of the Linux kernel can cause an ext4 filesystem to lose data if the system is rebooted twice in a short period of time. After the bug was reported, kernel developer Ted Ts'o quickly published a patch

While Wayland is sitting in the public limelight, DirectFB continues to exist as another means of handling Linux displays and input. DirectFB continues to quietly march on with new capabilities...

Ubuntu developers will be discussing this week about how they can rapidly bring-up support for new hardware within the Linux distribution...

While the ultimate future of Texas Instruments' OMAP division remains uncertain, their software engineers continue to work on maturing the OMAP5 Linux support...

The latest version of the Cairo-Dock application switcher for Linux desktops features integration improvements for Ubuntu's Unity desktop and updates the configuration window

Version 4.4 of the open source C++ integrated development environment adds a new welcome screen which the developers hope will help newcomers and provide a faster workflow for existing users

Code-named "Precise", the new edition of Puppy Linux is based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS binary packages and brings a variety of updates to the project's Ubuntu-based distribution

Many Phoronix readers have been writing in over the past day getting excited that it looks like Team Fortress 2 is coming to Linux...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has updated his USBView program, a user-space utility he started more than one decade ago for displaying USB device information under Linux...

As a warning for those who are normally quick to upgrade to the latest stable vanilla kernel releases, a serious EXT4 data corruption bug worked its way into the stable Linux 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 kernel series...

OpenNebula's Twin Jet release further improves the open source cloud computing toolkit's handling of virtual machines under VMware and KVM hypervisors. Support for Amazon EC2 has also been extended

KDevelop 4.4.0 was released today as the latest version of the KDE-focused integrated development environment (IDE), but it's hardly worth getting excited over...

With the release of version 1.7 of the JVM-based implementation of Ruby, the developers have made Ruby 1.9 compatibility the default. The release also includes many performance enhancements and is deemed ready for production use

One area of physics that is hard to wrap your head around is relativity. Basically, relativity breaks down into general and special relativity. General relativity deals with large masses and high energies, and it describes how space-time is warped by these. Special relativity deals with what happens during high velocities.

The ARM 64-bit compiler port (AArch64) of the GNU Compiler Collection is now ready for merging to trunk...

AMD today is lifting the lid on their Piledriver-based 2012 FX "Vishera" processors. Just weeks after the "Bulldozer 2" Trinity APUs were launched, the new high-end AMD FX CPUs are being rolled out. Being benchmarked at Phoronix today under Linux is the new AMD FX-8350 processor.