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Digia Announces "Boot To Qt" Project

Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs

SQLite Now Faster With Memory Mapped I/O

Handbrake 0.9.9 Supports OpenCL Offloading

PyPy 2.0 Python Alternative Released

Canonical Shows Mir, Unity-Next Running On MacBook Pro

Mozilla Firefox 21 Hits The Web With New Features

Go 1.1 Language Brings Performance Improvements

Colord 1.0 Released To Manage Open-Source Colors

PostgreSQL 9.3 Props Up New Database Features

The State Of PackageKit, AppStream, & Listaller

DRM Moves Ahead With HTML5 Specification

FreeType 2.4.12 Features New CFF Engine

OpenNebula 4.0 Improves The Open-Source Cloud

Blender 2.67 Brings Freestyle Rendering

Systemd 203 Is A Good Release, Brings New Features

Cinnamon 1.8 Desktop Adds In New Features

Audio Drivers Updated For The Linux 3.10 Kernel

phpMyAdmin 4.0 Release Kills Off The Tables

DRM Pull Request Submitted For Linux 3.10 Kernel

Adobe Open-Sources CFF Rasterizer For FreeType

OpenWrt 12.09 Brings Wireless Improvements

Lightworks Linux Beta Is Finally Public

GDB 7.6 Supports AArch64 Linux, New Features

Blender 2.67 Nears With New Features

The Good & Bad Of Btrfs In A Production World

OpenShot Switches From GTK+ To Qt

NGINX 1.4 Supports SPDY, Gunzip Filter

Systemd 202 Starts Playing With D-Bus In The Kernel

Benchmarks Of The New ZFS On Linux: EXT4 Wins

The State & Future Of The GNU C Library (GLIBC)

KDE, GNOME, Unity, Razor-Qt Developers Met Up

Tuning Btrfs vs. F2FS, EXT4, XFS File-Systems

ALSA 1.0.27 Released With Audio Improvements

Benchmarking PHP 5.5 Beta 3: Not Too Much Over 5.4

Facebook's HipHop 2.0 Virtual Machine Is Very Fast

Systemd 201 Ushers In New Features

Benchmarking The Performance Of PHP 5.5

SUSE Releases Icecream 1.0 Distributed Build Tool

DarkTable 1.2 Handles JPEG2000, Profiled Denoising

OpenShot Kicks Up With New Timeline Feature

Opera Will Switch To Blink Engine Too

Linux Video Disk Recorder 2.0 Supports HDTV

More Features Of C++14 Are Covered

Linux Group Files Complaint With EU Over SecureBoot

Enlightenment's Terminal Brings In Fancy Features

Cairo-Dock 3.2 Improves Multi-Screen Support

GStreamer OpenMAX IL Wrapper 1.0 Released

PHP 5.5 Beta Brings New Accelerator

SDDM Display Manager Sees Its First Release

Comparing Qt's QML vs. Enlightenment's EFL

Lightworks On Linux Shows Signs Of Life

Canonical's Bazaar Still In Stagnant State

Linux Audio Editing Is Better With Ardour 3.0

Crouton: Ubuntu Chroot On Google Chrome OS

Systemd 198 Brings "Many Big Changes"

Freedreno Driver Now Runs GNOME Shell

Qt/GTK Speed On Unity/KDE/Xfce/LXDE/GNOME/Razor

Genode OS 13.02 Plays With IOMMUs, Cortex-A15s

Jolla's Sailfish Linux OS Gets An Alpha SDK

ALSA's TinyCompress Audio Library Gets A Release

Ruby 2.0 Released As Stable

MINIX 3.2.1 Brings More Polish, Better User-Space

Linux Sound To Be Improved In 3.9 Kernel

Blender 2.66 Adds New Modes, Physics, Hair Rendering

Xamarin 2.0, Their New Code IDE Is Not For Linux

Git 1.8.2 Gets New Features, Ported To QNX

Gnash Flash Player Hasn't Seen A Release In One Year

SystemTap 2.1 Released With 40+ Features, Bug Fixes

FOSDEM 2013: Lots Of Wine, X.Org & Micro-Kernels

HelenOS Micro-Kernel OS Still Marching On

GNU/Hurd Plans For A Future With USB, SATA, 64-Bit

Enlightenment E18 Might Be Released This Year

LibreOffice 4.0 Released With Immense Changes

Calligra 2.6 Released

Microsoft Looking At Office For Linux In 2014

Oracle Releases MySQL 5.6 To Improve NoSQL, Performance

The Passing Of An Open-Source GPU Driver Developer

RAID 5/6 Support Finally Comes To Btrfs

Performance Counters Stuck For Linux GPU Drivers

Linaro Puts Out Its First Release Of 2013

Linux Foundation Still Prepping Its Secure Boot Loader

With E17 Out, Enlightenment E18 Is In Development

Fedora To Look At Reviving Apache OpenOffice

FOSDEM 2013 Is Coming Up This Weekend

XBMC 12.0 Released With HD Audio, PVR, Android

VESA BIOS Extension DRM Kernel Driver Released

Compton Compositing Window Manager Slows Down

ITU Approves H.265 / HEVC Video Codec

FSF Wastes Away Another "High Priority" Project

Btrfs Still Working To Address Corruption Issue

BusyBox 1.21.0 Is Busy With Many Changes

An Open-Source exFAT Implementation Reaches v1.0

GNU Hurd Is Still Moving, Albeit Slowly

Freedreno Gallium3D Now Handles Running XBMC

ELF Executable Signing/Verification Comes For Linux

JPEG Library Update Raises Compatibility Concerns

Kolab 3.0 Open-Source Groupware Software Released

Libjpeg 9 Does Better Lossless JPEG Compression

EnhanceIO: New Solid State Drive Caching For Linux

Snowshoe: New Cross-Platform Web-Browser On Qt5, WebKit2

Etnaviv: An Open-Source Driver For Vivante GPUs

Lightworks Re-Opens Its Linux Alpha For Testing

Systemd 197 Brings "Quite Some Cool New Stuff"

FFmpeg 1.1 Brings New Support, Encoders/Decoders

C++11 Support In Qt 5.0

Apache Puts Out Cassandra 1.2 NoSQL Database

Git 1.8.1 Released

Simon 0.4.0 Speech Recognition System Released

2013 Is Going To Be The Year Of Linux Gaming

14 Years & Kicking: FreeDOS Is Still Alive

Free Software Foundation Thinks It Can Stop SecureBoot

Automake Looks To Drop MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME

Multi-Process Support For GTK's HTTP Back-End

MorphOS Still Being Toyed With For PowerPC

LibreOffice 4.0 Beta 2 Is Looking Good

Glibc 2.17 Supports 64-Bit ARM, Improved Features

BLAKE2: A New Alternative To MD5 & SHA-2/SHA-3

Awesome 3.5 Window Manager Released

GNU Grep & Sed: Fallout Within The GNU FSF Camp

ADA 2012 Is Now An ISO Standard

The Most Popular Linux Stories Over Eight Years

PureDarwin Is Back To Improving Apple's OS X Darwin

Opera 12.12 Web-Browser Released

VLC 2.0.5 "Twoflower" Has Experimental Blu-Ray Support

Suricata 1.4 Brings New Security Features

Lightworks To Have Public Linux Beta In Q1'2013

CodeWeavers Puts New Features In CrossOver 12.0

Qt 5.0 Final Is Targeting A Release Next Week

New Features Coming Up For PulseAudio 3.0

Blender 2.65 Fixes 200+ Bugs, Couple New Features

Samba 4.0.0 Officially Released

SparkleShare 1.0 Released For Git-Based File Sharing

XBMC 12 Frodo Beta 3 Released

A New Project To Run Mac OS X Binaries On Linux

A Deep Look Into GPUs & Linux Graphics Drivers

Lima GPU Driver Faces Changes, Advancements

Enlightenment E17 Goes Into Beta

DarkTable 1.1 Supports OpenCL For Images

A New Build Of Qt 5.0 Surfaces For Testing

Git 1.8.1 Adding New Features, Fixes

FlashFire: Buffer-Based Write Reordering For SSDs

Genode OS 12.11 Is Now Self-Hosting

Qt 5.0 Release Still Planned By Year's End

Enlightenment E17 Alpha 6 Packs Many Changes

Guix: A New Package Manager & GNU Distribution

OpenELEC 3.0 Enters Beta With XBMC 12.0

LibreOffice 4.0 Alpha 1 Is Freed For Testing

Enlightenment E17 Alpha 5 Works On Its Default Theme

Jolla Presents Sailfish OS MeeGo-Fork

Systemd 196 Brings New Features

Enlightenment E17 Alpha 4 Released

OpenSUSE: Gaming, Wayland, USB Hacking & ARM

Gentoo Developers Unhappy, Fork udev

XBMC 12.0 Beta Packs Exciting Features

Netflix Comes To Linux Via Silverlight On Patched Wine

CGit Maintainer Disappears, Security Hole Found

Canonical Releases Upstart 1.6

Skype 4.1 For Linux Released

Enlightenment E17 Alpha 2 Released

Haiku Release 1 Alpha 4 Is Now Available

Lightworks Is Not As Open As Some Would Like

E17 Release Day Set For 21 December 2012

Qt 5.0 Is Getting Into Shape On Android

GCC 4.8 Compiler Development Is Over

Opera 12.10 Browser Improves Extensions

Tizen's Dawati Shell Has Gone Dormant

There Might Be Another EXT4 Corruption Bug

OpenSUSE For ARM Is Almost Ready

FOSDEM 2013 Dev Rooms Announced

Open-Source Flash Player Continues To Advance

DirectFB Continues To Gain New Features

Greg KH Updates USBView For GTK3, DebugFS

Enlightenment 0.17 Release Is Just Days Away

Git 1.8.0 Gets New Features With Official Release

Mono 3.0 Released With A Ton Of Improvements

LinuxDays: An Open-Source Event Of Disorganization

GLX-Dock 3.1 Brings Better Unity Integration

LinuxDays, Gentoo, SUSE Prague Is This Weekend

Waffle 1.1 Gets EGL + GBM, Android Toppings

Zenwalk Continues Banging The BFS Scheduler

One Week To LinuxDays In Prague

E17 Does A Desktop Shootout, The Winner Is....

New & Updated Linux Benchmarks

Blender 2.64 Brings Improvements For Open Movie

MythTV 0.26 Advances The Open-Source HTPC

Git 1.8 Is Being Readied With New Features

OpenShot Video Editor 1.4.3 Packs New Features

Python 3.3 Now Available

Open webOS 1.0 Released

FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0

OpenGL Profiling Improvements With APITrace

DRI2 Video Support Still Being Planned

Open-Source Graphics Drivers Need Better Security

LLVM Offered Into The Software Freedom Conservancy

ZFS File-System On Linux Keeps Marching Along

Digia Completes Its Nokia Qt Acquisition

Linux Security Slides: Secure Boot, Crypto, AppArmor

Samba 4.0 Makes It To Release Candidate Stage

Avidemux Video Editor Gets Internal Rewrite

Khronos SPIR For OpenCL Brings Binary Compatibility

Enlightenment E17 Is Another Step Closer To Release

GIMP Looks Towards GEGL, High Bit Depths, GTK3

Cinelerra 4.4 Betters Live Audio Processing, Plus More

Shuttleworth Tosses $1M Behind Open-Source Project

PostgreSQL 9.2 Is Faster, Packs In Many New Features

OpenSUSE: Not Everyone Likes SystemD

Crack Becomes Compelling For General Purpose Coding

Lightworks Linux Alpha Planned For Next Month

ALSA 1.0.26 Released

Who's Leading The Development Of Mono

Enlightenment E17 Has Secret Release Plans

IcedTea-Web 1.3 Supports New GTK, Chromium

Waffle: Run-Time Selecting GL, Windowing System

KMSCUBE: Spinning Cube Comes To The KMS Console

Cracking Broadcom's VideoCore With An Open Driver

Qt Developers Reconsider MinGW For Qt 5.0

Open WebOS Beta Released With OpenEmbedded Build

Qt Brisbane Developers Bid Farewell

GStreamer Conference 2012: ALSA, OpenGL, Wayland

ALSA: Audio Compression Offloading, Power Savings

Extending DRI2 For Video Handling Still Desired

Blender Can Do Simulations With Bullet Physics

Haiku OS Ported To 64-bit, Picks Up OpenJDK Support

Blender On Android With OpenGL ES Now Works

Twitter Is Set To Join The Linux Foundation

PixelLight Open-Source 3D Framework Hits v1.0

Genode OS 12.08 Gains ARM Support, NOVA Work

Merging LightDM Log-In Manager For KDE Workspaces

One Week To GStreamer Conf, LinuxCon San Diego

Systemd To Secure Logs With "Forward Secure Sealing"

GDB 7.5 Supports Google Go, x32 ABI

COGL 1.11.2 Supports SDL2, Betters GLES 2.0, Fixes Bugs

Some Enlightenment EFL Components Hit v1.7 Beta

Portable OpenCL 0.6 Released, Implementing OpenCL 1.2

ZFS File-System On Linux Moves Along

Freedreno: Complex Fragment Shaders, VBOs

Talk Of Qt 4.9, Backporting Qt 5.0 Features

Integrating Videobuf2 With DMA-BUF Still Being Done

A New Round Of Enlightenment EFL 1.7 Alphas

GLAMOR 0.5 Acceleration Library Released

FlashROM 0.9.6 Released For Open-Source BIOS Flashing

HelenOS 0.5: Micro-Kernel Multi-Server OS Release

Digia Buys Out Qt From Nokia

LibreOffice 3.6 Open-Source Office Suite Released

OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL ES 3.0 Specifications Unveiled

MythTV 0.26 Goes Into Beta

Nokia's Actions Already Harm Qt 5.0 Release

Nokia Reportedly Selling Off Qt

Upcoming Linux Benchmarks For August 2012

PathScale Working On DogFood, A New Dev IDE

Nokia Slams Office Working On Qt Components

KLANG: A New Linux Audio System For The Kernel

Freedreno Driver Gets Working Shader Assembler

Richard Stallman Comments On Valve For Linux

GLAMOR 0.5 To Advance 2D Over OpenGL

One Week To SIGGRAPH OpenGL Announcements

Apple OS X Mountain Lion vs. Linux

Mono Working Close With Microsoft, Gets $12M USD

Gatling: High-Performance Open-Source Server

G-WAN Web Server Claims Speed Records, Features

Mesa, ALSA At GStreamer Conference 2012

MythTV 0.26 Gets Ready For Video Playback

Nero CD/DVD Burning Software On Linux Is Dead

PowerVR Driver Gets New Site, Little Progress

Major Open-Source ARM Announcement Coming

Entangle: Controlling Your DSLR Camera From Linux

Gummiboot: A Simple UEFI Boot Manager

How To Recruit Open-Source Developers

DisplayLink USB GPU Hot-Plugging On Linux

Enlightenment E17 Is Going To Be Released

DebConf Managua 2012 Begins Tomorrow

Send/Receive Support For Btrfs Published

OpenPhoneux / GTA04 Still Going As Niche Phone

One Week To DebConf 2012 Managua

GNU C Library 2.16 Brings Many Features (GLIBC)

Pymothoa: JIT'ing Python Over LLVM

GRUB 2.00 Boot-Loader Officially Released

Kinect With Qt Makes Cursor Out Of Your Hand

GRUB 2.00 Boot-Loader Release Is Imminent

Enlightenment's EFL Gets Its Own Physics Library

Open Shading Language Continues Making Progress

Freedreno 3D Driver Hits Rendering Milestone

An Overview Of Qt 5.0 Features

DirectFB 1.6 Brings OpenGL, Android Features

OpenFIMG Graphics Driver Slow To Advance

Sponsoring Open-Source Drivers For $1 Per Day?

Lightworks Is Almost Ready For Linux Release

Skype 4.0 For Linux Officially Released

Opera 12 Web Browser Packs Many Features

Magenta Pairs Linux With Darwin/BSD, Is Like iOS

Chris Mason Of Btrfs Is Leaving Oracle

After 21 Alphas, Samba 4.0 Finally Enters Beta

Facebook Releases Folly C++ Open-Source Library

ACPI Updated For The Linux 3.5 Kernel

XBMC Gets Its New HD Audio Engine

Genode OS 12.05 Brings Interesting New Features

Opus Audio: Pairing Skype's SILC With CELT

LinuxTag Berlin 2012 Wrap-Up

The Facebook Phone Will Use Linux

FFmpeg 0.11 Has Blu-Ray Protocol, New Encoders

Microsoft: The Unlikely Sponsor Of Linux

Where systemd Came From & Where It's Going

The Linux USB Library Has Been Forked

ownCloud Four Brings New Features

OpenMoko's New Endeavor: Giving Out IDs

LinuxTag 2012 Gathers Linux Stakeholders In Berlin

Microsoft DirectX Back-End Support For Qt

Ubuntu Developers Discuss Using Mono AOT

PulseAudio 2.0 Runs On HURD, Has Jack Detection

PowerTOP 2.0 Finally Sees Release

Qt 5.0 Is Going To Like LLVMpipe, Wayland

LibVNCServer 0.9.9 Brings IPv6, TurboVNC Encoder

Did Hell Freeze Over? GIMP 2.8 Released

Maximal: A New Open-Source License...

The Most Awesome But Least-Advertised F17 Feature

Qt 5.0 Final Release Delayed To August

CodeWeavers Is Working On A New Web Browser

The Moose File-System Remains Tasty

NGINX 1.2.0 Web Server Released

Many FSF Priority Projects Still Not Progressing

Systemd Gets A Bunch Of Changes

A Crazy Demo Showing The Ilixi Compositor In DirectFB 1.6

GIMP 2.10 To Be Fully Ported To GEGL Core

A Linux Driver For USB-Based Projectors

UEFI On Linux Is Like A Pathogen

The Growing Number Of Open-Source Projects

GIMP 2.8.0 Is Finally Near With RC1 Release

Cairo 1.12 Is A Good Performance Story

Qualcomm Clarifies Killing Proprietary Drivers

KMSCON: A DRM-Based Terminal Emulator

Skype Open-Source Back In Action, Breaks v5.5

Cairo 1.12 Released With Major New Features

XBMC 11.0 Eden Brings Many Multimedia Changes

New Enlightenment EFL Package Releases

Mono 2.11 Release Brings Many Changes

PulseAudio 2.0 Is Set To Be Released Very Soon

Enesim: A Flexible, Extensible Graphics Framework

DirectFB 1.6 Is Coming Soon While 2.0 Is Far-Out

Say Hello To Julia, A New LLVM-Based Project

APITrace 3.0 Brings Graphics Tracing Goodness

Open-Source Skype Effort Is Dormant Or Dead

Qt 5.0 Alpha Is Just About Two Weeks Away

Fog: A High-Performance Alternative To Cairo

PHP 5.4 Release Brings Many Changes

XBMC 11 Eden Nears Final Release

Minix 3.2 Released, Uses LLVM/Clang, SMP, ELF

Genode OS Framework 12.02 Released

Flashrom Update Handles Flashing More Hardware

Apache 2.4 Comes Out As Web Server On Steroids

Proposals To Split KMS & GPU Drivers, 2D Kernel API

LZ4 For Btrfs Arrives While Its FSCK Remains M.I.A.

VLC 2.0 Twoflower Media Player Released

FOSDEM 2012 Summary, Videos To Watch

Blender 2.62 Brings New Render Engine Features

The Document Foundation Releases LibreOffice 3.5

The Gujin Boot-Loader Was Updated

Miguel de Icaza Calls For More Mono, C# Games

Demo Of The Lima Driver On The KDE Spark Tablet

Open-Source ARM Mali Code Published

Major ReactOS Release: Themes, Shell, ACPI, WiFi

DMA-BUF Is Ready To Push Forward Linux Drivers

The First Shots Of "Limare" Running On Linux

Announcing The Lima Open-Source GPU Driver

FFmpeg 0.10 Gets New Filters, Decoders, Encoders

Samba 4.0 Dances Closer To Release

ALSA 1.0.25 Is Out With Many Linux Audio Changes

A New Design For FUSE File-Systems

NTFS-3G Sees Major Update w/ Faster Compression

XBMC May Soon Run On Top Of Wayland

MPlayer2 Is Still Being Actively Developed

Plans For X.Org, Wayland At FOSDEM 2012 Are Drawn

Darktable For Open-Source Photography

SCALE 10x Kicks Off Today In Los Angeles

UEFI Secure Boot Still A Big Problem For Linux

Cogl, Clutter, Cogland Get It On With Wayland

OpenMP May Finally Come To LLVM/Clang

LessFS Pairs De-Duplication With Snappy Compression

DirectFB 1.6 Release Is Imminent With New Features

One Week To SCALE 10x Linux Event

OpenFIMG ARM Graphics Driver Is Still Active

Corel Releases Professional Linux Photo Software

FOSDEM 2012: Four Weeks To Wayland, X.Org & Games

FreeDOS 1.1 Released With Many Changes

libdce: The Distributed Codec Engine

Genode OS Gets An Ambitious 2012 Roadmap

Scribus 1.4 Desktop Suite Sees Major Overhaul

Avidemux 2.5.6 Video Editor Brings Many Changes

Calculate (Gentoo-Based) Linux 11.12 Released

Anything Up With OpenMoko These Days?

Qt 5 For Your Web Applications In The Browser

Haiku OS Looks Towards Mainline Mesa Support

Concept Work: Doing WebGL In Clutter's WebKit

Razor-Qt: A New Qt-Based Desktop Environment

Clutter/Cogl Running On Wayland Master

Blender 2.61 Released With Cycles Render Engine

GIMP 2.7.4 Has UI Fixes, Readies For 2.8 Release

Qt 5 Preps For Multi-Touch, Input Improvements

FFmpeg Moves Closer To 1.0 Release

First Release Of Open-Source Blu-Ray Library

Opera 11.60 Web Browser Drops In New Features

Genode Aims To Produce A General Purpose OS

GIMP 2.8 Moves Close To An Early 2012 Release

Genode 11.11 Released With Virtualization Options

CinePaint 1.0 For Linux Released

Accelerated Compositing, Better Video In WebKit

GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.6 Released

Lightworks Video Editor For Linux Is Delayed

Coming Soon: Project Anzwix

A Journal Comes To systemd

Enlightenment E17 Running On Wayland

X.Org, Wayland, Open Gaming At FOSDEM 2012

S3TC Now Golden For Linux & Open-Source?

Collabora Demos An HTML5 Video Editor

Particle Code Platform May Go Open-Source

What's Popular In The Linux World This Year

Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering

Skype Publishes New Linux APIs w/ Video Support

The Qt Project Is Now Live

Blender 2.60 Final Is Ready With Many Changes

Open LLVM-Based Portable OpenCL Announced

The Sad State Of FSF's High Priority Projects

LibreOffice Coming To iOS, Android & The Web

The Linux GPU Driver Limitations For Opera 12

Opera 12 Brings GPU Acceleration, Other Features

NGINX Goes Commercial, Raises $3M USD

Subversion 1.7 Brings Major Feature Changes

GNU fdisk 2.0 Has Been Rewritten

Free Software Foundation Calls PDF Done

How To Become A Free Software Developer

Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

PulseAudio 1.0 Is Now Released With New Features

Among The Tech News From The Wiesn...

Facebook's Flashcache For The Linux Kernel

OpenShot 1.4 Video Editor Released

A Native Enlightenment EFL Port To PlayStation 3

Lightworks Hopes To Ship In November

Qt Is Likely To Use The V8 JavaScript Engine

New GIMP Release Has Working Single-Window Mode

SDFS: A File-System With Inline De-Duplication

Photos Of Steamworks On Linux

OpenCL Is Coming To The GIMP Via GEGL

Samba 3.6 Brings SMB2 Support

XtreemFS: A Distributed & Replicated File-System

Moto: From Dining To Open-Source Software

OpenGL 4.2 Specification Published With GLSL 4.20

Xamarin Puts Out Its First Mono Release

Java SE 7 Finally Sees The Light Of Day

One Last Call To Make Novacut A Reality

CUPS 1.5.0 Released With Several New Features

Apple Unleashes Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Linux.Conf.Au 2012 Call For Papers

Coming Up: Benchmarks Of GNU Hurd

A Status Update On GNU Hurd: Java, Debian, Money

Apple Time Machine Come To Linux, Sort Of

MLAA For Mesa Is Ready For Testing

WebCL: OpenCL For The Browser

Shed Skin: Another Way To Compile Python Code

A New Version Of Libvirt Brings Many Changes

The Kernel Graphics Interface (KGI) Is Effectively Dead

Yet Another Open-Source Video Editor: Novacut

Gawk 4.0 Is A Major New Release

Gcrypt Library 1.5 Adds Support For Intel AES-NI

GCC 4.6.1 Compiler Released

Tuxera Claims NTFS Is The Fastest File-System For Linux

Blender 2.58 Released, Now Much More Stable

GCC 4.6.1 RC Arrives; Official Release Not Far Off

Haiku OS Advances With New Official Release

More Details From The EKOPath Open-Source Launch

Major Open-Source Code Drop For XvBA, PowerVR Coming

GStreamer 1.0 Is Coming; Here's The Plans

Dirndl On Intel's Sandy (Bridge) Is Hot

OpenMoko Is Still Around & They Just Launched Something

Pidgin 2.8 Program Officially Released

Skype To Take Action Against Reverse-Engineering

LibreOffice 3.4 Meets The World

The Skype Protocol Was Reverse-Engineered

The Light Begins To Shine On Qt 4.8

GNU GRUB 1.99 Released; So Close To Version 2.0

OpenGL ES 2.0 Support For Compiz, KWin, Cairo

Microsoft Is Buying Out Skype

Systemd Is Now One Year Old; Why You Should Use It

ApiTrace 1.0 Released: A Great Way To Debug Graphics

DragonflyBSD 2.10 Improves Hardware Support

DirectX Video Acceleration For MPlayer

Tesseract: A New Way To Interactively Explore Open-Source

GIMP 2.8 May Not Come Until Late November

Audacity 1.3.13 Improves The Open Audio Scene

GIMP 2.7.2 Arrives, But Still Far From Belated GIMP 2.8

Blender Becomes More Usable With 2.57 Release

Nine Years Later, NGINX 1.0 Server Released

NTFS-3G Merges With NTFSprogs, Plus New Version

Skype 2.2 Beta For Linux Released

Several Linux Foundation Announcements

Portable C Compiler 1.0 Has Been Released

Marek Files Patches For Floating-Point In Mesa Master

What Would Be Disastrous For Linux, Open-Source

Exciting Proposals For The Linux Community

What Would Be Crazy For Linux Right Now

Mac Graphics Drivers Are Still Troubled

Moonlight Gets Generic GPU Video Acceleration

GTK+ HTML Back-End Merged For GTK+ 3.2

GNU Free Call: A Proposed Free Phone To Skype

That Was Quick: Nokia Sells Qt Commercial To Digia

Khronos Puts Out The Final WebGL 1.0 Specification

Kernel Mode-Setting, GEM, DRI Progresses On FreeBSD

FreeBSD 8.2 Officially Released

Python 3.2 Released

Fluxbox 1.3 Released

SplashTop Releases Its MeeGo-based OS

The Latest Details On The State Of Qt & MeeGo

Nokia & Microsoft Get In Bed, Qt & MeeGo Take A Back

Debian 6.0 Was Just Released!

ALSA 1.0.24 Has Arrived, Bringing Better Linux Audio

More Details Emerge On The Bretzn Project

Portable C Compiler Is Building FreeBSD, Nearing v1.0

Version 1.0 Of Enlightenment Foundation Libraries

Introducing AppStream, Multi-Distro App Framework

LibreOffice 3.3 Officially Released

An Open-Source GLES Driver For Samsung's Galaxy GPU

The Butterfly-Amazon Open-Source Saga Continues

Open-Source Projects Are Getting Ripped On Amazon

Will The Free Software Desktop Ever Make It?

LibreOffice 3.3 Nears; RC3 Released

GIMP's Future With 2.8, Then Going Forward With GEGL

The Fallacy Behind Open-Source GPU Drivers, Documentation

GIMP 2.8 Is Struggling To Make It Out The Door

GnuCash 2.4.0 Accountng Software Released

Debian 6.0 Kernel Will Be Free Of Closed Firmware

Opera 11 Web-Browser Released

Oracle Open Office 3.3 Released Too

Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 With Many Improvements

Heroes of Newerth 2.0 Is Here Too

Intel, NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Switching On Linux Nears

VLC With Phonon Back-End Is Now Ready For Use

SplashTop Hooks Up With Bing, Chromium

TrueHD, DTS-HD, E-AC3 Over HDMI On Linux

Enlightenment... Now Running On Refrigerators

SystemD Has New Shutdown Logic, Gives Everyone CGroups

Genode OS Now Has A LiveCD Demo With Gallium3D

Beta 2 Of The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries

Mono Picking Up F# Support For Linux, Mac OS X, Etc

ARM Mali-T604 Arrives, But With What Kind Of Driver?

Lightworks Is Not Coming To Linux Until Late 2011

Debian Installer 6.0 Reaches Beta

Remember SplashTop? Here's An Update On Them

Oracle's OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 RC1 Makes It Out

QEMU-KVM 0.13 Is Here Too

GeeXboX Develops The OpenBricks Framework

Cinelerra 4.2 Video Editor Released

Mono 2.8 Is Out With C# 4.0, Better Performance

The 2011 Desktop Summit Is At Berlin's Humboldt

Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.0 Hit Beta

Lightspark May Work Towards A Gallium3D State Tracker

LibreOffice Is The New OpenOffice.org

OpenShot 1.2.2 Further Pushes Open-Source Video Editing

PostgreSQL 9.0 Is Now Available

The ZFS Linux Module Goes Into Closed Beta

More Details On The OpenGL Situation In KDE's KWin

Cairo 1.10 Released With Lots Of New Work

An Update On The SystemD System & Session Manager

FOSDEM 2011 Is The 5th & 6th Of February

Vi IMproved 7.3 Released w/ Fixes + New Features

Gallium3D, GEM Ported To Genode OS

The Linux Foundation Tries To Help With Software Licensing

KDE SC 4.7 May Utilize OpenGL 3.x For Compositing

We're Now Up To OpenGL 4.1; Brings New Features

Banshee Music Player Gets Amazon MP3 Support

Video Effects For PiTiVi Video Editor Progresses

Spotify P2P Music Program Released For Linux

Progress On The Gallium3D State Tracker For Cairo

GIMP 2.7.1 Released With Plenty Of Changes

Skype Launches SkypeKit SDK For Developers

OpenCL 1.1 Specification Released

Are Linux Drivers Rubbish & Is Linux Ready For Steam?

Clang Gets Boosted By The Boost Libraries

Phoronix @ LinuxTag 2010

Oracle Releases VM VirtualBox 3.2 Software

Haiku OS Makes Way With Second Alpha

Pidgin 2.7.0 Instant Messenger Released

Open-Source GStreamer VA-API Plug-In Support

The x264 Project Bangs Out A Blu-Ray Encoder

Reasons Why You Don't Contribute To Open-Source Software

Major OS Showdown w/ Windows Tests Are Imminent

IcedTea6 1.8 Is Ready For Drinking

Lightworks Video Editor Going Open-Source

Apple Rolls Out WebKit2, But No Linux Love Yet

Songbird Linux Support Falls Out Of A Tree

Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Beta Arrives

Initial MeeGo Test Release Available

Skype Open-Source Update Expected Soon

Fluendo's New Codecs Support VDPAU, VA-API

iPhone/iPod Linux Library Hits Version 1.0

Khronos Releases OpenGL 3.3 & OpenGL 4.0

Haiku OS Hopes For New 3D Stack

OpenShot 1.1 Video Editor Released

Version 1.98 Of GRUB2 Boot Loader Released

Clutter 1.2 Toolkit Released

Wow, XGI Does Something With Its Linux Driver

It's Time For Another Survey

New GRUB2 Build Brings Official Release Closer

GIMP 2.8 Scheduled For Release Post-Christmas

New 3D Animation Software For Linux Released

Skype 2.1 Beta 2 Delivers Linux Screen Sharing

NVClock's Thunderbird To Launch New Project

ReactOS May Begin Heavily Using Wine Code

Wicd 1.7 Released With New Features

New Clutter 1.2 Development Snapshot

Cygwin 1.7 Released, Two Years In Development

DeviceKit-disks Renames Itself To UDisks

Xine-lib Update Improves A Bit For Blu-ray

Blender 2.5 Alpha Brings Major Changes

Jolicloud "Robby" Beta To Ship WIth Linux 2.6.32

NetworkManager 0.7.2 Released With Many Fixes

PulseAudio 0.9.21 Arrives With Device Manager

Samsung Sponsors The Development Of Enlightenment

Reiser4 May Go For Mainline Inclusion In 2010

A New Release Of GRUB 2.0 Fixes Security Issue

Khronos Launches Mobile Windowing System API

Ryan Gordon Is Fed Up, FatELF Is Likely Dead

Skype To Provide Open-Source Linux Client

GRUB 2.0 Moves Closer With GRUB 1.97 Release

OpenMoko Project Delivers The WikiReader

Theora 1.1 Thusnelda Is Released

Skype 2.1 Beta Brings New Features To Linux

CUPS 1.4.0 Printing Server Brings New Interface

Update On Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Benchmarks

Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" Benchmarks

Pidgin 2.6 Released, Brings Voice & Video

Development Work Towards GIMP 2.8 Solidifies

Running Qt/KDE Atop An OpenGL Stack

Merging Tux3 Into The Mainline Linux Kernel

Virtualization, Gaming, Drivers & Gernlinden

Clutter Toolkit 1.0.0 Is Released

Clutter Takes A Step Closer To 1.0 Release

VLC Media Player Reaches Version 1.0

Linus Issues Independence Day 2.6.31-rc2 Kernel

Fluendo Releases Its Own Linux DVD Player

PHP 5.3.0 Released With Namespaces & More

Intel, Nokia Further Push ConnMan Software

Clutter 1.0 Reaches RC1 Milestone

Enlightenment E17 Snapshot Released

Native Multi-Touch Support On Linux

Enlightenment E16 Reaches Version 1.0.0

Blender 2.49 Released With Great Changes

Company Promises Source-Code If They Fail

Qt Publishes Roadmap, Opens Up Git Repository

Mobile Broadband On Linux To Improve With ModemManager

Qt 4.5 Released, Qt Extended Discontinued

Nokia To Stop Developing Qt Jambi

NetworkManager 0.7.1 About To Arrive

Qt 4.5+ To Be Relicensed Under LGPL

Btrfs 0.17 File-System Released

GRUB 2 Receives New Font Engine

Pidgin 2.5.3 Arrives With Many Changes

OpenCL 1.0 Specification Released!

Python 3.0 "Python 3000" Released

Theora 1.0 Video Codec Released

GIMP 2.6.2 Released, Brings Faster Scaling

gOS To Support Intel's Moblin Project

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Released

Mono 2.0 Platform Released

GIMP 2.6.0 Released, With GEGL Support

Trolltech Is No More, Hello Qt Software

Fluxbox 1.1 Released, 100+ Changes

Pidgin IM Client 2.5.0 Released

Git 1.6.0 Released, New Improvements

SplashTop Linux Security Hole Discovered

OpenMoko 2008.8 Released

Interesting Bits Of News From OSCON

OSCON 2008 Conference This Week

GIMP 2.5.2 Development Release

OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner Launches July 4

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released

Pidgin 2.4.0 Released With New Features

OpenMoko Divorces FIC, Gets New Product

SplashTop Source Code Release Coming

Skype 2.0 Beta Brings Videos To Linux

New NDISwrapper 1.49 Release

GIMP 2.4.0 Released

Fluxbox Window Manager Reaches v1.0

Skype 1.4 For Linux Released

Pidgin 2.2.1 Released

Making Linux Drivers Free To Companies

GIMP 2.4.0 Comes Closer To Release

MadWiFi Abandons Proprietary HAL

OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 Quietly Released

Pidgin 2.2.0 Released

OpenMoko Schedule Revised, For X-Mas

XGI 1.5.0 Linux Driver Released

New Matrox Linux Graphics Driver

OpenMoko Gets A New User Interface

Open-Source Graphics Driver Reminders

GIMP 2.4.0 Inches Closer To Release

CUPS Printing 1.3.0 Released

BitTorrent Lets Open-Source Lag Behind

ZFS Test Suite 1.8 Released

OpenBox 3.4.4 Released

Pidgin 2.1.0 Released

GIMP 2.4.0 Coming Soon

GIMP 2.2.17 Released

Apple Buys Out CUPS Printing

Samba Has Love For The GPLv3

OpenMoko Delivers True Linux Phone

SF Community Choice Awards

GPLv3 License Released

The Summer Debut of Sunbird 0.5

ZFS Test Suite & More Released

Skype 1.4 Beta For Linux Released

GIMP 2.3.18 Development Release

Apple Mac OS X Goes ZFS

OpenBox 3.3.995 (OpenBox 3.4 Preview)

GIMP 2.3.17 Released

Samba 3.0.25 Released

Blender 2.44 Released

Bugzilla 3.0 Enters the World

Enlightenment 0.16.8.7 Released

Pidgin "GAIM" 2.0 Released

Skype 1.4 Alpha for Linux Released

The Status of EXT4

Adobe Flex Goes Open-Source

The Future of Reiser4 on Linux

Second Life Server Goes Open-Source

GIMP 2.2.14 Released

GAIM Goes Bye-Bye

OpenOffice.org 2.2 Released

GIMP 2.3.15 Released

NTFS-3G 1.0 Released

Enlightenment 0.16.8.6

Blender 2.43 Released

PDF To Become ISO Standard

GAIM 2.0.0 Beta 6 Released

AbiWord v2.5.0 Released

Second Life Goes Open-Source

AbiWord 2.5.0 Coming Soon

FSF Launches BadVista Campaign

OpenOffice.org 2.1 Released

VLC Media Player 0.8.6

GIMP 2.3.13 Release

Firebird Database 2.0

GAIM 2.0.0 Beta 5 Released

Songbird 0.2 Released

GAIM 2.0.0 Beta 4 Released

Enlightenment 0.16.8.4

The GIMP + GEGL Core

OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Released

Skype Linux 1.3 Released

LAME 3.97 Beta Released

Songbird v0.2 Released

Subversion 1.4.0 Released

SPECViewPerf 9.0 For *NIX

GPL v3 Draft Two

Blender 2.42 Released

AbiWord v2.4.5

Cinelerra v2.1 Released

Firebird Database 2.0 RC3

Ext4 Filesystem Coming

OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Released

Songbird Source

Inkscape v0.44

No Date For *NIX SPECViewPerf 9

SPECViewPerf 9.0 Released

SDL 1.2.10 Released

CUPS Printing v1.2 Released

VIM 7 Released

Cg 1.5 Beta 1

SourceForge CCA Winners

GAIM v2.0.0 Beta 3

Amanda v2.5

GShow TV v1.0.0

Multiple LiveCD to DVD Script

FlameRobin v0.6.0

NVClock News Update

Ekiga v2.0

AudConvert v0.52

OpenOffice v2.0.2

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