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FreeBSD developers are still working on bringing up ARM hardware support for various platforms so that it's in a similar state to Linux...

Work on version 2 of Rekonq, the popular QtWebKit-based web-browser focusing upon the KDE desktop, is now underway...

While LLVMpipe may be a different story, when using hardware-accelerated graphics drivers with the recently released Unity 6.8 desktop, the performance doesn't change much. For at least one driver, there's even a new OpenGL performance regression under certain workloads. Here's some test results of Unity 6.6 vs. Unity 6.8 on the Radeon and Nouveau drivers.

While Linux 3.7-rc1 hasn't even been released yet as the merge window is still open, the Linux 3.7 kernel is exciting and users of the open-source Nouveau driver will be greeted by the Nouveau DRM driver rewrite / code restructuring. Due to the invasive Nouveau work, some early Nouveau tests under the Linux 3.7 kernel were carried out. The 3.7 results were then compared to the earlier Linux 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 kernel releases.

In the week ending 6 October - Linux kernel 3.6 released, 64-bit ARM support coming in Linux 3.7, Oracle's plans for Java, 4.5 million routers are hacked, Android malware can create 3D room maps and Jolla plans to launch a MeeGo-powered phone

Keith Packard has been working on support for passing file descriptors over the X protocol socket as part of the work of DRI-Next, a.k.a. the "DRI3" undertaking...

There's a bit of a spat that started between Intel and Samsung developers working on the Tizen operating system...

It's football season and I'm trying my hand at helping coach my son's team. He's surprisingly good at defensive end and I am obviously very proud. It's all what you would expect, until recently, something stood out.

The pull request for the EXT4 file-system updates targeting the Linux 3.7 kernel were sent in on Friday afternoon by Theodore Ts'o...

If you've ever been frustrated by the inaccuracy of a television weather report, in particular the graphics, there's always been a way out -- you could go to the National Weather Service website and look at the online radar images pulled straight off the actual radar. If you're fishing, hiking or working outdoors, though, you'll find the graphics don't render all that well on mobile devices.

Announced this morning on the kernel mailing list was F2FS, a new open-source Linux file-system that comes courtesy of Samsung. F2FS is short for the "Flash-Friendly File-System" for Linux. The list announcement describes this new file-system as "a new file system carefully designed for the NAND flash memory-based storage devices. We chose a log structure file system approach, but we tried to adapt it to the new form of storage.

If there was an overarching message from the speakers at last week's Open Hardware Summit, particularly those in the first morning block, it's that openness isn't that critical. It sounds strange coming from a conference whose name starts with "open," but speaker after speaker talked about hybrids and doing whatever worked, not just doing what was open.

Dot Categories: Community and EventsKDE had a visible presence at LinuxCon 2012 in San Diego, California, August 29-31. Thanks to the Linux Foundation for donating an exhibit space to KDE. LinuxCon 2012 was the fourth year this annual event has taken place. Sponsored and produced by the Linux Foundation, it is a premier Linux event and attracts big names in open source, both companies and individuals. The event has a corporate feel with many leading tech companies exhibiting and their representatives making presentations.

Sandia National Laboratories announced on Tuesday that it has set up a network of 300,000 Android virtual hand-held computing devices to study large networks of smartphones. The project, called MegaDroid, is expected to result in a software tool that will let other cyber researchers model similar environments and study the behavior of smartphone networks.

Oracle's NetBeans developers have released a beta of version 7.3 of the NetBeans IDE which features the first appearance of Project Easel, the IDE's new HTML5 Application Development environment. Easel offers an HTML5 project type with a much improved JavaScript editor, which has enhanced code completion, and JavaScript testing support, along with a page inspector and visual CSS style editor. A JavaScript debugger, embedded WebKit browser and Chrome integration via a Chrome extension complete the extensive package of enhanced tools. A video(46 MB and 7 mins 24 secs) presents the new HTML5 features in NetBeans 7.3, including the new project wizard which lets users select initial templates and specific versions of JavaScript libraries to be downloaded from content delivery networks.

Pushed to OpenBenchmarking.org over the night were several new and updated test profiles for Linux performance benchmarking...

"To every thing there is a season," as the old saying goes, and "a time to every purpose under the heaven." Can the same be said for Linux distros? That is the question that's been on many Linux bloggers' minds. Specifically, "What Distros Have You Used, in What Order?" was the title of the Ask Slashdot post that got the conversational ball rolling, and it was a provocative one.

Developers working on the Unvanquished open-source game as a visually impressive project have been advancing their OpenGL 3.x renderer...

Open Colorado is announcing the third annual CityCamp Colorado unconference scheduled for Friday, October 26, 2012. The unconference will bring together people to share ideas that aim to enhance government transparency, citizen participation, and accountability. Ultimately, these goals look to enhance the citizen experience and foster a more healthy, livable community.

Red Hat says its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform has evolved to embrace far more than just Java, and to reflect this, it has launched a contest to rename the JBoss Application Server (JBossAS) to something more in line with its current vision of multi-language programming. In a blog post on Monday, Red Hat Senior Director of Middleware Engineering Mark Little explained that JBossAS is a very different project than what it was when it launched as an open source Java EE application server.