Patches finally arrived last week for 2D color tiling in the Radeon R600 Gallium3D driver. The patches were then re-based this past weekend and benchmarked by Phoronix. Will the 2D color tiling patches, which affect the Linux kernel, Mesa, libdrm, and xf86-video-ati DDX make the more recent Radeon graphics cards…

Fedora 17, which is codenamed the Beefy Miracle, has just picked up another round of features…

Many scientists want to open up an age-old system of submitting private research to commercial journals that they say is hidebound, expensive and elitist.

Do you have what it takes for that Linux job with an HPC vendor you've got your eye on? Brent Welch, the director of software architecture at Panasas, talks about the role Linux plays in HPC at Panasas and the in-demand technical skills supercomputing suppliers need from job applicants.

Multi-threading in LLVM has been brought up and it looks like some developers may finally be taking on the challenge of bringing OpenMP support to this growing open-source compiler infrastructure…

Late last year, in response to the extended brouhaha over its reported effort to implement a specification called Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) that could make it impossible to run Linux on Windows 8 PCs, Microsoft officials responded with a long post that explains exactly what kinds of flexibility UEFI (Secure Boot) will offer.

Abiword is a fully-featured word processor with all the functionality anyone would expect from an office application, but without the taxing memory and hard disk space requirements of office heavyweights like Microsoft Word and LibreOffice. Unless you’re looking for a full-fledged integrated office environment, Abiword is really all you need.

SEAndroid brings SELinux's security functionality to Google's mobile operating system as researchers look into ways to increase Android's defences against malicious applications…

Several new modules have been introduced into the Java EE web framework that is developed by Red Hat…

Today Fujitsu launched something called Data Utilization Platform Services, which use cloud services as a platform for leveraging big data. This is a cloud service for gathering, compiling, and integrating massive quantities of sensing data, processing it using realtime processing or batch processing, and using it for such purposes as…