Now, one of the more interesting new open source robots is Qbo (shown), a Linux-based robot from the folks at thecorpora.com.

Ever since Google announced its purchase of video codec company On2 in August 2009, there's been an expectation that On2's VP8 codec would someday be open-sourced and promoted as a new, open option for HTML5 video. An open VP8 would offer comparable quality to H.264, but without the patent and royalty encumbrances that codec suffers.

Google has announced the next major update for it's open source Android mobile operating system, adding support for a number of new features, including Wi-Fi tethering, Exchange updates and a new Dalvik JIT compiler that provides a 2 to 5 times improvement in overall performance

Buying an Open Source solution is becoming much the same as buying a proprietary one...which is a good thing.

Though video is also now core to the web experience, there is unfortunately no open and free video format that is on par with the leading commercial choices. To that end, we are excited to introduce WebM, a broadly-backed community effort to develop a world-class media format for the open web.

The frontiers for Linux may be diminishing, but there is still room to explore our own sense of identity and purpose within that community, both as individuals and as projects... Does a mature Linux mean there's nothing left to explore?

What if the Linux desktop as we know it was a thing from the past ? Major players like Asus, Google, Canonical decided to create their own desktop in order to provide a Zen, very fast environment for millions of users. What are the consequences for the "legacy" windows managers (Gnome, KDE, etc.) ?