No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8
Thu, 24 May 2012 19:46:11 +0000

You won't be able to use the free Visual Studio Express to develop desktop apps.

Red Hat hires lead JRuby developers alongside Engine Yard partnership
Tue, 22 May 2012 22:55:55 +0000

Charles Nutter and Tom Enebo will continue their work on JRuby at Red Hat

Raspberry Pi foundation demos 14MP camera module for $35 computer
Tue, 22 May 2012 21:34:34 +0000

The module will likely be available for purchase later this year.

Another tiny computer: VIA's $49 APC offers Android, HDMI video out
Tue, 22 May 2012 19:25:34 +0000

Has twice the RAM of the $35 Raspberry Pi.

Hands-on: GitHub for Windows takes the pain out of using git
Tue, 22 May 2012 12:05:22 +0000

Get up and running with git without once having to use the command line.

"Swiss Army knife for QuickTime" Perian turning off the lights
Tue, 15 May 2012 15:53:57 +0000

The source code will be made available on Github or Google Code.

DRM-free physical media: dead in the water or the answer to art’s prayers?
Sun, 13 May 2012 22:00:23 +0000

A Kickstarter to create a DRM-free HD video format caters to small-time artists.

Week in IT: The GIMP reviewed, DDR4 coming, and the cloud office shootout
Sat, 12 May 2012 14:30:27 +0000

It's all the IT news that was fit to print last week.

Mozilla says Microsoft won't allow rival browsers on ARM Windows desktop
Thu, 10 May 2012 13:50:05 +0000

General counsel warns of possible antitrust implications.

New Dell Ubuntu ultrabooks a step in the right direction for Linux support
Tue, 08 May 2012 20:50:00 +0000

But upstream hardware support is more important than preinstallation.

Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface
Sun, 06 May 2012 23:30:18 +0000

We go hands-on with the latest update of the venerable open source image editor.

Two months later, Apple acknowledges use of OpenStreetMap in iPhoto
Fri, 04 May 2012 15:29:00 +0000

The OpenStreetMap Foundation finally gets an acknowledgement from Cupertino.

HTML5-based MeeGo successor Tizen hits 1.0 milestone
Wed, 02 May 2012 20:15:34 +0000

Tizen, the successor of the ill-fated MeeGo project, has reached version 1.0

New Firefox design will offer uniform look across desktop and mobile
Tue, 01 May 2012 23:13:37 +0000

Firefox is getting a fresh new unified look and feel across form factors.

Free as in awesome: our favorite open source apps for Ubuntu 12.04
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:33 +0000

A roundup of great apps you can install on Ubuntu 12.04

Firefox 13 beta turns on the SPDY, tabs on demand
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:01:00 +0000

Mozilla applies some spit-and-polish to Firefox with new features for v13.

Forget Apple: Oracle to bring Java security fixes directly to Mac users
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:20:00 +0000

Macs are finally welcome to the regular Java update train.

Precise Pangolin rolls out: Ubuntu 12.04 released, introduces Unity HUD
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:48:08 +0000

Canonical released Ubuntu 12.04, a new version of the popular Linux distribution.

Twitter signs up to sponsor open source Apache Software Foundation
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:41:02 +0000

Twitter has announced that it will sponsor the Apache Software Foundation, a …

Berners-Lee: Don't let record labels upset Web openness
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:21:00 +0000

The inventor of the World wide Web had some choice things to say about …

Delivery begins for first units of Raspberry Pi’s $35 Linux computer
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:19:02 +0000

The Raspberry Pi foundation has started to deliver the first units of its $35 …

Bitten by the maker bug: one man's first steps with Arduino
Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:25:00 +0000

Jumping into the world of open source Arduino hardware can be intimidating. …

MySQL founder's latest MariaDB release takes "enterprise" features open-source
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:56:00 +0000

MariaDB 5.5.23 is the latest version of MySQL founder "Monty" Widenius' fork …

HTML5 roundup: Mozilla demos standards-based video chat in Firefox
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:15:39 +0000

Mozilla is adding WebRTC support to Firefox in an experimental branch. The …

Linux kernel in 2011: 15 million total lines of code and Microsoft is a top contributor
Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:15:46 +0000

A study published by the Linux Foundation shows that the Linux kernel and its …