The initial code push has taken place for the Lima Project, which is the open-source ARM Mali graphics driver that's under development…
Mesa 3D 8.0 Supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30
The latest version of the OpenGL implementation and 3D driver collection adds improved support for the latest graphics hardware…
UK Government Starts New Open Standards Consultation
After withdrawing its original open standards policy, the UK Government has opened a new consultation process which will run until 1 May 2012, gathering opinions on its proposed policies…
Geek Picture of the Day: Linus Torvalds
Forbes.com features Linux creator Linus Torvalds today in a picture from 1999…
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Nginx Continues Growth, Adds Commercial Offerings
According to the Netcraft Web Server Survey for February 2012 Nginx was "the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month" by picking up 0.27 percentage points.
Linux 3.3-rc3 Has No Big Surprises
The Linux 3.3 kernel is now up to its third RC release and is fairly in shape…
SPICE On KVM/QEMU Works Towards Gallium3D
Red Hat's SPICE project that's used in KVM/QEMU virtualization environments is working towards better graphics support, which also includes work on a DRM driver and Gallium3D component for offering 3D acceleration support within guest virtual machines…
CrunchBang 10 Update Split into Two Editions
The update to the Debian-based Linux distribution is available as "stable" and "backported" editions because of concerns expressed over the default use of backport images…
Planning the X/Wayland Marriage, X Server 1.13
Keith Packard talked last weekend at FOSDEM about the imminent X.Org Server 1.12, the succeeding X.Org Server 1.13 release, and plans for bridging the X-to-Wayland migration…
Distribution Release: Superb Mini Server 1.6.4
Superb Mini Server (SMS) 1.6.4, a Slackware-based server distribution, has been released: "Superb Mini Server version 1.6.4 released (Linux kernel 2.6.39.4). This minor release brings security updates to 2.6.39 kernels for CVE-2012-0056 local root exploit, where a local user could gain root privileges by modifying process memory, and….