Steam for Linux Beta now Available
After conducting a beta participation survey over the past two weeks, Valve has finally sent out invites for their Linux beta.
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Lightspark 0.7.0 Released
There are now a number of projects focussed on creating an open source alternative to Flash Player; and Lightspark is one of them.
Plasma Active 3 now available
It seems like there is a release of a new version of a tablet OS nearly every other week. Just goes to show how important and popular that form factor is turning out to be. The latest to release is Plasma Active Three, a tablet-centric OS in development by the KDE community.
Linux Foundation’s solution for secure boot woes
Secure Boot, as its name suggests, is a security feature that—if supported by hardware—can make the boot process much less vulnerable to viruses and other malware. The way UEFI and Secure Boot do this is to only execute an operating system’s boot loader and drivers if they are signed by an accepted boot loader.
Google Open Sources the Supersonic Query Engine
Google has recently open sourced a library that is designed to be a fast query engine for column-oriented database backends. The Supersonic Query Engine is their latest open source offering.
First Open Source Edition of webOS Released
The Open webOS project has reached an important milestone, it is now out of beta and has released its first version.
What you may not know about Linux, Red Hat & Open Source
With the help of an an interesting inforgraphic, get to know some intresting facts about Linux, Red Hat and Open Source.
Open webOS Beta Released
HP has reached a major milestone in its efforts to open source webOS. They have released a beta of webOS.
Qt 5 Beta now Available
Despite all the troubles surrounding the Qt ecosystem recently, the first beta of the next major update to the framework has just been released.
Adobe Leaves Spry to the community, Embraces jQuery Fully
Adobe has announced that they will stop investing on their own Spry framework and embrace jQuery more fully