Linus Torvalds is back to his Sunday release cycle and has announced the release of Linux 3.13-rc4 revealing that he isn’t happy with the latest RC. Linux 3.13-rc4 packs networking, GPU, USB,…
Tag: Open Source
Affordable 3D metal printer developed, opensourced
Researchers have developed and opensourced a low-cost 3D metal printer capable of printing metal tools and objects with cost under £1,000. A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Joshua Pearce at…
Fedora 20 delayed till December 17
Fedora 20, originally slated for a November 26 release, has been delayed again till December 17 because a number of bugs still remain unfixed – major ones related to Anaconda component of…
Opus Audio Codec 1.1 released
Opus – the totally free, open and royalty-free audio codec – has finally received its version 1.1 stable after being in development for months. The new version of Opus brings with it…
Valve, HSA Foundation, Cloudius join the Linux Foundation
Valve has joined the Linux Foundation – a move that shows the company’s ever increasing love the Linux and one which will help it to take gaming on Linux to the next…
CentOS 6.5 released
CentOS project team has released version 6.5 of CentOS Enterprise Linux for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures marking the fifth release in the 6.x series. Some of the new features in CentOS…
Linux Mint 16 ‘Petra’ Cinnamon, MATE editions released
The team behind Linux Mint has announced two of the distributions latest versions – Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon and Linux Mint 16 MATE – which are now available for download. The team…
Linus Torvalds closes merge window two days early with Linux 3.13-rc1 release
Linus Torvalds has closed Linux 3.13 merge window two days early by releasing the Linux 3.13-rc1 on Friday instead of the usual Sunday release cycle. The new kernel brings with a lot…
Linux 3.12 released as Torvalds brews Linux 4.0 plans
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.12 keeping in line with the Sunday release cycle and has also started brewing plans for Linux 4.0 slated for 2014 end release. The Linux 3.12 kernel…
Linux 3.12-rc7 released, final version expected next week
Linux 3.12-rc7, which would probably be the last of the release candidates for Linux 3.12, has been released. The decrease in the rc sizes which was observed over the course of last…
Linux 3.12-rc6 released a day early
Linus Torvalds has released Linux-3.12-rc6 as he is flying out to attend a kernel summit taking place in Edinburgh. Torvalds notes in the release announcement that nothing major happened this week and…
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 3.12-rc5 after a relatively calm week
Come Sunday and Linus Torvalds is ready to release the next release candidate for Linux kernel – this week it was the Linux 3.12-rc5. Torvalds released the Linux 3.12-rc5 noting that the…
Linux 3.12-rc4 released
Getting back to his Sunday schedule, Linus Torvalds has released the fourth release candidate of the Linux 3.12 Kernel. Already half way into the release cycle, the Linux 3.12 doesn’t bring in…
Arduino boards to run full Linux thanks to TI’s new ARM-based chip
Arduino, one of the most sought after open source electronics board, will be more powerful now thanks to Texas Instrument’s (TI) new ARM-based chip capable of clocking 1GHz speeds. Massimo Banzi, co-founder…
FreeBSD 9.2 stable released, finally
FreeBSD Foundation has announced the release of FreeBSD 9.2 today after a string of delays and a couple of extra RC releases. Originally scheduled for an August 31 release, FreeBSD 9.2 is…