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Before he leaves on vacation, Linus has one more -rc release for us... "It's been pretty quiet, and I'm hoping it will continue to be so, because I'm off for my yearly scuba-diving trip. And so, before I go away (no under-water email), here's a new -rc. "It's really CIFS and mips updates, with some updates and code movement in drivers/net, and simply a fair number of small fixes here and there." [Read more]... [more]

In-depth article on how to optimize GCC when hacking the kernel... "GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures. Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization. This article explores many of these important extensions and shows you how they're used w... [more]

A look at Gael Duval's Ulteo startup..."Whatever happened to the founder of Mandrake Linux? He's back on the scene with a new open source startup and looking to break some ground with its first offering called a Virtual Desktop solution.

A further examination of Adobe's open source choices..."Adobe actually does a lot of work around open source, though it generally gets (and takes) little credit for that work. But so does every big company, with few exceptions. No, the real question is in what Adobe chooses not to open source, and why.

Jono Bacon addresses a topic not usually covered in Linux communities: diversity..."In the past I have talked quite a bit about diversity in this blog. Diversity is critical to the future development and growth of communities, and the strongest communities are ones with a strong sense of equality and diversity, and a governance infrastructure that supports and celebrates that diversity.

Flash is opening up to C and C++ code..."Welcome the preview release of codename 'Alchemy.' Alchemy is a research project that allows users to compile C and C++ code that is targeted to run on the open source ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2). The purpose of this preview is to assess the level of community interest in reusing existing C and C++ libraries in Web applications that run on Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.

Carla Schroder gives her usual honest take on the state of Linux printing today...

How the KDE developers approach upstream and downstream bugs...

A very interesting piece on the value of feedback in an open source project...

A deskside supercomputer running Linux clustering software. The holidays come early!"Cray Inc. and Clustercorp today announced the immediate availability of the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer preloaded with Rocks+ 5, the commercial version of the Rocks Cluster Distribution for Linux users. The joint solution is fully certified as Intel Cluster Ready and ships with Intel Cluster Checker preloaded and pre-tuned. ... [more]