A couple of years ago, there was much debate about whether Android would inspire the kind of inspiration among app developers that developers have for Apple's iOS.
For those wishing to follow the development of Wayland Display Server, there's some new progress to report on. This time it's about supporting screensavers under Wayland…
The first development snapshot of X.Org Server 1.12 is now available for interested testers…
Google's image format started as a rival to JPEG, but new features mean Adobe hopes it'll take on Portable Network Graphics, too.
NVIDIA announced yesterday the 290.10 Linux graphics driver with numerous changes…
Google's mobile OS captured 56 percent of all ad impressions on Millennial Media's mobile network last month, compared with the 28 percent share held by Apple's iOS.
A new technique for clearing memory should tangibly improve response times of JavaScript apps in Chrome but Firefox still beats the new engine for pace when measured using Google's own benchmark…
Koha is a free library management system created by the Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand. This software has been the subject of an ongoing fight with a US company called LibLime, which seems to want to take the software proprietary; LWN reported on this dispute in 2010. Now the Horowhenua…
With the Ubuntu Developer Summit now completed and the team back home and rested, I have been working with the horsemen to finalize, document, and define their focus in the 12.04 cycle.
Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers have developed a new logging system for Linux. The Journal daemon, which integrates with the service management daemon systemd, is intended as a replacement for syslog…