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Canonical's role in the effort arises from the fact that Calxeda has selected Ubuntu as the official OS for its 120-node, 2U server box. Each of the Calxeda server nodes contains a single quad-core ARM chip, a bit of memory, and some interconnect hardware that, all told, consumes about 5 watts. Calxeda can cram 120 (480 cores worth) of these into a single 2U rackmount server chassis, which makes for an incredibly dense cluster of cloud compute resources.

Things have been progressing nicely and we now even have 2 mash trees with install images for testing available for, one for ppc, the other for ppc64....

Canonical is pushing forward with ensuring ARM-compatibility for future versions of Ubuntu. In order to do that it needs a proper build environment and hardware to allow contributors to submit and build the 20,000+ packages that make up the Linux distribution.

It was just about a year ago that IBM, Samsung, ARM and others formed Linaro, the not-for-profit organization that aims to make it easier for developers to use Linux on ARM-based devices, and over the past few weeks the group has made several announcements that reveal some of the fruits of its labors.

Imagine a web where our browsers connected directly to each other to do voice, video, media sharing and run applications, using P2P and real-time APIs, rather than going through centralized servers that controlled traffic and permissions. . .

The chip technology at the center of the company's stripped-down business model is 30 years old but has attracted fresh attention from investors that has sent the stock zig-zagging. Demand for MIPS-based parts has been growing rapidly.

IDC indicated in an announcement that it has begun tracking PC microprocessor shipments by architecture, such as x86 and ARM, for the first time. The research firm now predicts that ARM will grab 13 percent of the PC microprocessor market by 2015.

Bitcoin is different: It wholly replaces state-backed currencies with a digital version that's tougher to forge, cuts across international boundaries, can be stored on your hard drive instead of in a bank, and--perhaps most importantly to many of Bitcoin's users--isn't subject to the inflationary whim of whatever Federal Reserve chief decides to print more money.

So Midori is going full speed ahead, we support the new libSoup cache now (WebKitGTK+ 1.3.11 or greater required), private browsing has received a number of improvements and lastly some fixes with the User Agent now resolves typical issues with popular websites.

Shipping in 3 flavors the Trim-Slice sports a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 A9 processor clocked at 1GHz, 1GB ram/mem, HDMI and lots more. And it ships with end-users' favorite operating system--Ubuntu 10.10 but supports others as well with the Trim-Splice being supported by the mainline kernel starting from 2.26.39. . .

There will be Linux on MIPS resources including kernel source code, as well as downloadable development tools including the MIPS Navigator Integrated Component Suite (ICS) integrated development environment and GCC compilers for MIPS.

ARM and its licensees are striving to expand their overall market presence by tackling Intel’s x86 in servers and client desktop and laptop computers.

So far this year I've noticed two new netbooks on the internet. The first being the Genesi Efika MX Smartbook and the other being the Hercules eCAFE which comes in two flavors (EX HD, Slim HD).

Hercules has launched a new range of eCAFE netbooks, the eCAFE Slim HD and the eCAFE EX HD. Both models comes with a Cortex A8 processor, and Linux as the OS, you get 512MB of RAM a standard and 8GB of storage in the eCAFE Slim HD or 16GB of storage in the eCAFE EX HD, plus 50GB of online storage.

Starting with GTK+ 3.0, we’re replacing the old theming layer with a more modern one. Designers will find it more powerful and immediate, and it’s more intuitive for the masses. This new theming layer has been developed in a GTK+ repository, but is available in master now, and brings in features that are starting to be a must in modern toolkits.

The last few days I spent fixing up some more details in the new HTML5 gdk backend. Not everything is supported yet (keyboard input in particular is very weak), but much more things work now. Even thought the backend is not of production quality it is now good enough that I think its interesting for a larger audience to play around with.

GNU Free Call is a new project to develop and deploy secure self-organized communication services worldwide for private use and for public administration

Thousand and one bug fixes, that's what this release turned out to be. A long run of tweaks in various places rather than short and explosive releases. Some big moves concerning bookmarks, user add-ons & bug tracking.

Its days are numbered and the downfall of the Wintel monopoly has been forecast for some time. Intel has indeed lost significant ground to ARM chips, and Microsoft faces equally annoying competition from the likes of Google's Android, which is climbing onboard practically every computer that isn't a desktop PC or server.

DuckDuckGo hereby pledges to tithe 10% of its income to free and open source software projects. I'm really hoping more companies will join me. Of course they'd be free to make their own requirements and allocation decisions, e.g. 10% of employee time vs income or allocations towards open source bounties, etc. I'll report back with pledge and donation amounts after the end of the year.