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Peppermint OS: Cloud Oriented Desktop Distro

Released in July, Peppermint Two is based on Lubuntu 11.04, an Ubuntu-derived distribution using the LXDE desktop environment (see our overview). Its main distinguishing...

You’ve Got Firefox in my Pidgin: Instantbird 1.0 Launches

What do you get when you combine Firefox and Pidgin? No, it's not the setup to a geeky joke (yet) — it's Instantbird, an...

Mesa 7.12 Is Now Where The Fun Is At

Mesa 7.11 has been branched in preparation for its release next month. What this means is that now Mesa Git master is for Mesa...

Despite the U.S. CIO’s Exit, Open Source Is Entrenched in the Federal Government

In mid-June, as the United States' first federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, announced that he has decided to leave his post, many people wondered if...

Android App Downloads Now Total 4.5 Billion

  Google's seen an impressive jump in downloads from its Android Market app store, with their mobile advertising sales director for Europe Ian Carrington revealing...

Phoronix Test Suite 3.2.1-Grimstad Released

The first (and only planned) point release to Phoronix Test Suite 3.2-Grimstad is now available. This release just incorporates a couple of small changes...

Surprising Power Consumption Of Ubuntu 11.04 vs. Windows 7

After recently tracking down the major Linux kernel power regression that's present for a vast number of mobile users in Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04,...

GCC 4.6.1 Compiler Released

As expected when mentioning the GCC 4.6.1 release candidate one week ago, GCC 4.6.1 has been officially released this Monday morning...   Read more at Phoronix

“http://” to be Dropped from Firefox 7 Address Bar

More readable URLs touted as the reason as Mozilla's Firefox follows Opera and Google's Chrome in not displaying the protocol for HTTP sites Read more...

openSUSE Weekly News 181 is out!

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 181.In this Issue:openSUSE Milestone 2Google Summer of Code ReportsSebastian Kügler: Plasma Active updatesZDNet/Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Firefox 5: New,...