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Developers Criticize Google's Android Market

06.07.2010 16:00  Norwegian developer Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD-Jon, says that, "Google does far too little curation of the Android Market, and it shows." Johansen believes that Google need to make a lot of changes to keep Android developers happy...

Linux Foundation Releases Windows Accessibility Software Under BSD

06.07.2010 16:00  The Linux Foundation has announced that it has now licensed the Windows version of IAccessible2 under a BSD licence to allow proprietary software developers to easily incorporate the accessibility API...

IBM Revs OpenCL for Linux on POWER

06.07.2010 16:00  IBM recently made available an OpenCL 1.0 conformant SDK for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the company’s POWER line of processors . The release...

Enterprise Open Source Support: Who Ya Gonna Call?

06.07.2010 16:00  Ask many IT administrators why they don't standardize on open source software, and quite a few of them will cite lack of support and documentation in response. That's true despite the fact that many of the same IT administrators aren't aware of the growing numbers of resources for support and documentation for open source software...

Linuxables: Choosing Your Text Editor

06.07.2010 01:04  Text editors on Linux. Few things conjure up more images and memories of heated flame wars.

KDE Akademy 2010 conference: First videos and slides published

05.07.2010 12:50  The KDE Project has published the first videos and slides from this year's Akademy developer conference which is currently taking place in Tampere, Finland until July 10th...

Linux 2.6.35-rc4 Kernel Sees The Light Of Day

05.07.2010 11:47  It's been nearly a month sine the last Linux kernel release candidate with Linux 2.6.35-rc3 having been released on the 12th of June, but Linus Torvalds celebrated Independence Day in the United States yesterday by releasing Linux 2.6.35-rc4. Linus was away on holiday for a while and then it took...

Google closes vulnerabilities in Chrome 5

05.07.2010 11:27  Google has released version 5.0.375.99 of Chrome, a security update that addresses four "high" risk vulnerabilities in its WebKit-based browser, and a new Dev channel release that on Windows systems enables the new consolidated menu by default...

Monty appeals Oracle's Sun merger

05.07.2010 11:24  Still crying a river over MySQL The co-founder of MySQL has submitted an appeal against the European competition watchdog’s decision to clear Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems earlier this year.…...

Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring delayed

05.07.2010 10:58  Mandriva has confirmed that the next major release of its Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring distribution, originally expected to arrive on the 3rd of June, has once again been delayed...

iOS has a bigger dev army than Android, but will cross-platform apps rule the day?

05.07.2010 10:17  We oftentimes hear raw numbers of apps bandied about in mobile OS comparisons, but we rarely get any idea of just how many developers are behind the scenes working for each platform. This is the void of knowledge filled by AppStore HQ today, who have gone to their dev directory -- claimed to be a complete listing of all 55,000+ coders whose work is currently available for consumption in the Apple App Store or Android Market -- and stacked...

Python 2.7 released

05.07.2010 09:40  Python 2.7 brings a number of Python 3 features to the older branch and is expected to be in use in production for many years as Python developers move to Python 3...

Processor Whispers - About Launches and Corsairs

05.07.2010 08:51  AMD launches the Opteron 4100, HP launches new Magny-Cours and Nehalem-EX systems with a self-developed chipset – and Intel launches a small commotion...

LG confirms Android tablet for Q4 2010 launch, Froyo for Optimus Z

05.07.2010 07:43  Now this is jolly good news. LG, which already has a Windows 7 tablet in the works, is gearing up to service those with a hankering for some Android in their slate computers as well. Clearly unwilling to fall behind its fierce rival Samsung, LG has just announced that it'll bringing out its own Google-centric tablet before the end of 2010. Indications are that...

Intel Core i3 LLVMpipe Performance

05.07.2010 06:00  Last week I put out new numbers showing the LLVMpipe performance with the latest Gallium3D code found in Mesa 7.9-devel. This Gallium3D driver accelerates all operations on the CPU rather than a GPU as a better software rasterizer than what is currently available for Linux, but even with a hefty...