Shuttleworth highlights server growth as Ubuntu overtakes RHEL on top websites
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post today pointing out that the popular Linux distribution has seen an increase in enterprise server adoption over the past year. He published a graph which indicates that...
Firefox 11 released with Style Editor and 3D DOM viewer
Mozilla has announced the availability of Firefox 11, a new version of the popular open source Web browser. The update brings several noteworthy new user-facing features and a number of technical...
HTML5 roundup: Mozilla and Google aim to level up gaming on the Web
Standards-based open Web technologies are increasingly capable of delivering interactive multimedia experiences; the kind that used to only be available through plugins or native applications. This trend is creating new oppor...
Mozilla begins adapting Firefox for Windows 8 Metro environment
Mozilla has started developing an official port of its Firefox Web browser for the Windows 8 Metro environment. They intend to deliver a fully functional version of the browser that will integrate with the Metro...
Ubuntu founder touts UI innovation in 12.04 beta release
The first beta of Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin, was made available today. The 12.04 release, which is the next major version of the popular Linux distribution, will officially launch in...
Raspberry Pi, activist tool
The tiny, $35, Linux-based Raspberry Pi computer has drawn a lot of attention in the last few months, and though it was originally developed to teach computer programming to young students, Internet activists have taken...
Zemlin praises $25 Linux computer: a Windows license costs more than four Raspberry Pis
In a blog post written this morning, Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin praised the Raspberry Pi foundation's $35 Linux computer, which met tremendous demand when it launched this week. In...
Social Music Player Tomahawk Finds Songs Everywhere, Including The Net [Review]
Here’s Tomahawk, a music player with a difference: it plays music from anywhere and almost everywhere. Not necessarily music from your collection, either. When you first open it up, it does index your iTunes library, so all the songs from there are available to...Feature: How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business
A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name. The company was built on...
Linux computer the size of a thumb drive now available for preorder
FXI is preparing to launch the Cotton Candy, a tiny computer that looks like a USB thumb drive. The device, which can run either Ubuntu or Android 4.0, has a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU,...
Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source
Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavily on computer programs, which analyze experimental data and run simulations. In fact, you would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outside of pure theory) tha...
