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Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,...

New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service...

The Lightspark project has released version 0.4.4 of its free, open source Flash player, adding support for localisations and ActionScript exception handling.

The KDE team has announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 less than a month after the release of KDE SC 4.5.0...

Wine runs many Windows programs nicely these days, including more and more serious music applications. Dave profiles some of those applications running under the latest & greatest Wine 1.2.

CEDET brings project management, code completion, reference analysis, code generation and more to the Emacs editor...

Last week we reported that a native ZFS implementation for Linux is soon being released that is based upon the work by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to bring Sun's ZFS file-system to Linux as a CDDL-licensed kernel module. As said though in that article, there is already a ZFS module...

Phoronix reports that Indian vendor Knowledge Quest Infotech is working on a native ZFS port to Linux...

If you use several computers, sharing files between them is a pain but Dropbox takes the pain away--for free.

The 2.6.36-rc3 kernel prepatch is out. "Nothing in particular stands out that I can recall. As usual, it's mostly driver updates (65%), of which a large piece (by line count) is just the removal of a staging driver that isn't really ready nor making any progress. But on the 'somewhat...

The Diaspora team has put out an update on their progress in creating a "privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network". The project raised a fairly large sum of money to fund its efforts, and now it is reporting back. "We are spending a good chunk of time concentrating on building...

MPEG LA, the group who who licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever. But Mozilla thinks that the better part of forever could belong to Google's WebM format. 

Three new APIs in Mozilla's Jetpack SDK include access to the system clipboard, better in page modal dialogs and toast style notifications...

Mozilla has announced that, in addition to being available in a publicly accessible mercurial instance, its Mozilla Labs projects and experiments will now be mirrored on the GitHub project hosting service...

The digiKam project has released the latest update for its open source advanced digital photo management application, adding a new "Remove Doubles" modifier and addressing several bugs found in the previous version...

New tab feature, formally released as Firefox Panorama, will enable users to organize and synchronize their Web activities in novel ways on the popular open source browser.

Today, if you're in need of a task manager application, you're looking at a category filled -- perhaps even overfilled -- with options. If you carry a smartphone, you probably have a to-do list app in your pocket already.

Google has officially announced the end to its sixth annual Google Sumer of Code (GSoC) event in which more than 2,000 mentors and over 1,000 students from almost 70 countries participated to improve the code bases of 150 open source projects.

The open source scalable vector editor gets an update with multi-path editing and an improved text tool...

The Ruby on Rails developers have issued the second release candidate for version 3.0 of their open source web framework, noting that the final version of Rails 3.0 should arrive "this week"...