Last year, Linux celebrated its 20th anniversary. The kernel that Linus Torvalds started as a hobby project helped the Internet bloom, challenged proprietary operating system dominance, and powers hundreds of millions of devices. From hacker toys like the dirt-cheap Raspberry Pi to most of the Top 500 Supercomputers, Linux dominates the computing industry. But it wouldn't have been possible without GCC, which turns 25 today.
Mere mortals needn't care, but programmers outside Google who want to build on Android's foundation should be able to stretch their wings.
The reverse-engineered Nouveau driver project has two huge surprises to share with the NVIDIA-using Linux desktop community today. One announcement concerns new hardware enablement (Kepler!) and the other concerns the Nouveau driver's position within the Linux kernel…
Version 3.4.6 of the open source LibreOffice productivity suite has been released; it addresses a "potential security problem" and fixes several bugs – an update to the 3.5 series of LibreOffice, 3.5.1, was released last week…
NVIDIA has finally introduced their first Kepler-based graphics card: the GeForce GTX 680. The new Kepler graphics architecture is an exciting successor to Fermi, but how well does this new graphics processor work under Linux? Here's a glimpse in what to expect for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 series on…
This week, market researchers at IDC and mobile app development and tools company Appcelerator came out with survey-based data showing that developer interest in the Android platform is waning. Specifically, 83.3 percent of developers surveyed last quarter said they were "very interested" in Android, while 78.6 percent of respondents said the same thing this quarter.
The new version of the open source and cross-platform media player arrives, after six months of development, with several improvements and many bug fixes…
A proposal to standardise access to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in Java has been rejected by the JCP's Executive Committee as too broad in scope…
There is rapidly growing interest in developing open source platforms and applications for use in cars. Last November, The Linux Foundation held its first-ever Automotive Linux Summit in Yokohama, Japan. "Linux has a competitive advantage in the automotive industry due to its ability to support the long-term support needs of automakers," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation.
Richard Guenther of SUSE on behalf of the GNU Compiler Collection development community has announced the official release of GCC 4.7.0…
