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Now that David Airlie's vga_switcheroo has went upstream in the Linux 2.6.34 kernel that provides hybrid graphics support and delayed GPU switching, David went on to look for something new to work on in his downtime when not busy with tasks at Red Hat. This new work is on GPU offloading / multi-GPU...

Dotted Eyes Ltd - #6 Open Source Data presented by Jamie Justham

Part 6 of a 6 part series of presentations by the Charman and founder of Dotted Eyes Ltd, Jamie Justham, discussing the benefits of Open Source data. Dotted Eyes is one of the leading enablers of the Unified Spatial Environment, bringing together geographical data in a seamless, controlled and automated environment.

At the IDC Directions conference in Silicon Valley, research firm's chief analyst argues that the cloud is here to stay, proclaiming it the dominant platform for the next two decades.

The Qt developers have announced a technical preview for Qt 4.7, the cross platform C++ framework for GUI applications, and introduced declarative UI design with QML, part of Qt Quick...

The Khronos Group has announced that OpenGL 4.0, the specification for the open 2D and 3D graphics API, is now available...

When a company gets bought out it’s natural top executives will be shown the door. And so the parade has begun at Sun, now part of Oracle.
This is a good thing for open source. Talent is returning to the wild with credibility and experience others can benefit from.
Take the case of Simon “Webmink” Phipps (above).

Back in 2007 we reported on Valve looking for a senior software engineer to port their Windows-base games to Linux, then in 2008 we said the Source Engine would be coming to Linux based upon our sources (something that we still believe in), later that year we also found a few Linux libraries with t...