If you already read our beginner's guide to the Clutter toolkit and wished it were available in something other than C, then good news: we're putting together a tutorial series covering PyClutter, the Python binding to Clutter, which merges all the power and beauty of the Clutter toolkit with the simplicity and brevity of Python.

Clutter, the free software tool-kit that makes it easier to develop compelling user-interfaces that use OpenGL / OpenGL ES, is now nearing its version 1.0 release. Emmanuele Bassi with the Intel Open-Source Technology Center has announced the release of Clutter 1.0 Release Candidate 3

Clutter, a library that is designed to make it easier for applicatio developers to integrate OpenGL into thier applications, is approaching their 1.0 release.

There are lots of cool things in Moblin, but Clutter is our #1 most favourite thing of all. Why? If its OpenGL-accelerated, object-oriented, GTK-integrated API isn't enough to convince you, then perhaps its powerful animation framework, easy texture manipulation, and lightning-fast object picking system might.

Bassi discusses Clutter history, the recent 1.0 release, and what lies ahead for this key Moblin and GNOME technology.

Lauri Taimila has released his media center "Entertainer" under the GPL, and is calling for Developers. Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution. It uses python, the gstreamer multimedia framework, and the Clutter UI-library, which allows sleek OpenGL animated user interfaces.

Last month we looked at the cost of running Compiz. Today we are seeing if and how using Mutter, the window manager for the GNOME 3.0 desktop that uses Clutter-based compositing, will affect the performance of several different open-source games.

Nautilus Elementary now have a embedded terminal and clutter view by default for ubuntu 10.10. Not only its simple - It looks gorgeous.

Moblin version 2.1 is available for download. This tiny Linux edition is suitable for netbooks & nettops as anounced by the Moblin project steering committee.