The developers behind the open source WebKit engine, used in browsers such as Chrome and Safari, have added support for the calc function specified in CSS3…

Jay Flood has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Porteus 1.2, a Slackware-based mini-distribution featuring Trinity (KDE 3), KDE 4, LXDE and now also the Xfce desktop: "The Porteus community is pleased to announce the first release candidate of Porteus version 1.2 This release features….

JavaFX's open source version, OpenJFX, now has a functional testing framework in the form of JemmyFX…

"Self Contained Mountable applications" (SCMs) can now be used to mount extensions for the lightweight distribution…

OpenStack community members are providing "156 cores, 1040GB memory and 59.1TB of disk storage" so that developers can get a feel for the OpenStack platform at no cost…

KWin's lead developer is considering dropping support for graphics hardware that is only capable of OpenGL 1.x if alternatives prove to perform well enough…

After writing about Btrfs LZ4 compression support and that the Btrfs FSCK tool wasn't available, it turns out that there is the new Btrfs repair tool, but it's not widely known and it's not recommended to ever use it — at least at this stage…

With my recent job change, I’m starting to run into a bunch of people asking „What exactly are you going to be doing now?”

Trend Micro's malware analysis tool is now available as open source, but the company will continue to maintain the Visual Basic application…

The free software project has put together an official position on patents and how the Debian community should handle patent related issues…