After years of hype, patent troll Vringo demolished on appeal
Vringo’s win over Google was one of the biggest and most public jury wins for a “patent troll” in recent years. It won $ 30 million from a jury verdict in 2012, far less than the half-billion-dollar...
View ArticleLinux Turns 23 Years Old Today
It was on this day in 1991 that Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system that would go on to become Linux… Phoronix
View ArticleLinux 3.17-rc2 Release Celebrates 23 Years Of Linux
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.17-rc2 kernel this afternoon in marking this day 23 years ago is when he announced the project… Phoronix
View ArticleGoogle changes stance on net neutrality four years after Verizon deal
Four years ago, Google teamed up with Verizon to argue that most network neutrality rules should not apply to cellular networks. The companies got much of what they wanted, with the Federal...
View ArticleCUPS Turn 15 Years Old, CUPS 2.0 Released
CUPS 2.0 has finally been released in marking the fifteen years the project has been around with what was originally referred to as the Common Unix Printing System… Phoronix
View ArticleFormer Valve/VOGL Dev: OpenGL Next Could Take 3+ Years
Rich Geldreich, one of the original Valve Linux team members who started work on their VOGL OpenGL debugger, thinks it will take three years or more before the next-generation OpenGL materializes for...
View ArticleThe beginning of the people’s Web: 20 years of Netscape
In 1994, only geeks, techies and nerds were using the Web, and then along came Netscape and nothing would be the same. LXer Linux News
View ArticleUbuntu 15.04 to be Codenamed Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu Celebrates 10 Years Birthday
With only a few days before Ubuntu 14.10 will officially see the light of day, Mark Shuttleworth posted a blog entry filled with a richness of Vibrant words in which he announced the codename for the...
View ArticleTen years of Ubuntu: How Linux’s beloved newcomer became its criticized king
In October of 2004, a new Linux distro appeared on the scene with a curious name—Ubuntu. Even then there were hundreds, today if not thousands, of different Linux distros available. A new one wasn’t...
View ArticleTen years of Ubuntu: How Linux’s beloved newcomer became its criticized king
In October of 2004, a new Linux distro appeared on the scene with a curious name—Ubuntu. Even then there were hundreds, today if not thousands, of different Linux distros available. A new one wasn’t...
View ArticleMicrosoft is suddenly releasing some of the year’s coolest Android apps
Microsoft is no longer all about “Windows, Windows, Windows!” as ex-CEO Steve Ballmer used to say. Instead, the company is willing to create applications and programs for any platform and recently it’s...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.10 released + 10 years anniversary!
This past tuesday has been released the latest Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn”!But that’s not all… This particular release signs the 10th year anniversary of my favourite OS of all time!...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 Years of Firefox
10 years ago we built Firefox to give you a choice. The Web was a monoculture and the only way in was through the company that controlled your operating system. We believed then, and so did many of...
View ArticleFreeBSD Plans For The Next Ten Years
Jordan Hubbard, the co-founder of FreeBSD and CTO of iXsystems, gave a talk at this month’s MeetBSD California 2014 conference about the next ten years of FreeBSD… Phoronix
View ArticleWhy next year’s GoPro videos could be the craziest you’ve ever seen
2014 has been an amazing year for wild-and-crazy GoPro videos and it looks like 2015 could be even crazier. The Wall Street Journal reports that GoPro is working on a line of consumer drones that have...
View ArticlePowerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years
The previously undiscovered malware represents a missing puzzle piece tied to “Turla,” a so-called advanced persistent threat (APT) disclosed in August by Kaspersky Lab and Symantec… The malware was...
View ArticleAfter 10+ Years, NetworkManager Reaches v1.0
After more than ten years of development, Dan Williams of Red Hat has announced the release of NetworkManager 1.0. The NetworkManager 1.0 release is more than just bumping the version after waiting...
View ArticleKubuntu 15.04 Alpha 1 Is the Biggest Update in Years, Features Plasma 5 by...
Kubuntu 15.04 Alpha 1 (Vivid Vervet), a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the KDE desktop environment, has been released and is now ready for testing. LXer Linux News
View ArticleLinux and open source 2014: It was the best of years, it was the worst of years
There was great news and there was awful news in the world of Linux and open-source software during 2014. LXer Linux News
View ArticleIntel Ivy Bridge Linux OpenGL Benchmarks Over Two Years
On Sunday I posted some benchmarks looking at Intel Haswell HD Graphics performance between 2013 and 2014, but for users of older “Ivy Bridge” graphics how does the performance comparison? In this...
View ArticleWill Patents Ruin The Most Important Biotech Discovery In Recent Years?
Although not many outside the world of the biological sciences have heard of it yet, the CRISPR gene editing technique may turn out to be one of the most important discoveries of recent years — if...
View ArticleHTC posts first quarterly revenue growth in three years
It looks like HTC’s woes are at an end, as the Taiwanese manufacturer has posted its first quarterly revenue growth since the third quarter of 2011. Much of HTC’s turnaround is attributed to the...
View ArticleLinux Game Publishing Remains Offline, Three Years After The CEO Shakeup
It was brought up today in the forums that it’s been three years of having a new LGP CEO while Linux Game Publishing’s website remains down for the better part of the year, their web presence is...
View ArticleOpenBenchmarking.org Turning Four Years Old
This month marks OpenBenchmarking.org being around for four years as the largest collection of public Linux benchmarking data from the community for facilitating open-source result comparisons, dynamic...
View ArticleAfter 28 years, MACHINES find Wally
Python and genetic algorithm spot stripey-shirted cartoon fugitive in a jiffyThe location of stripe-shirt-wearing picture book character Wally has been nailed down by cold hard algorithms.… LXer Linux...
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