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arkOS is a Linux distro designed for the Raspberry Pi. The aim is that running a home server should be as easy as using a smartphone.

Drupalfund.us is a new crowdfunding platform meant to help accelerate development of the open-source Drupal CMS, as well as fund new training material and other projects of interest to the community.

Trisquel is a 100 per cent 'free as in free speech' GNU/Linux distribution started by Rubén Rodríguez Pérez nine years ago.

When Oracle purchased Sun in April 2009, MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius saw a bleak future ahead for the database, which Sun had snapped up in 2008. The day the purchase was announced, he forked MySQL, launching MariaDB.

Syllable, an attempt to write a desktop-focused operating system from scratch using best practices, has notched up a new milestone, with its developers releasing 0.6.7 today.

I recently caught up with some of the developers of Rockbox to discuss the open source project, which is designed to replace the firmware shipped on MP3 players and portable media players.

Women's participation in open source development is at a far lower level than participation in proprietary software development. One of the groups that aims to change this is the Ada Initiative.

Techworld Australia caught up with lead Syllable OS developer Kaj de Vos to talk about the operating system and its philosophy. The result is a (very) lengthy Q&A.

When it comes to the fast-moving business of trading stocks, bonds and derivatives, the world's financial exchanges are finding an ally in Linux

OLPC is eyeing a range of features for its upcoming XO-3 tablet, including satellite Internet and solar charging.

The Uzebox is an 8-bit, "retro minimalist" games console with a design that's entirely licensed under version 3.0 of the GNU GPL.

Techworld Australia recently interviewed Abhi M. Balakrishnan, the project lead of Mantra, an open source penetration testing kit

Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys

Bodhi Linux is somewhat different to most Ubuntu derivatives: It uses Enlightenment 17 to provide a desktop environment, instead of the more common GNOME, KDE and XFCE based desktops.

FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based OS designed for networked storage. I recently caught up with Josh Paetzel, project manager for FreeNAS 8, to talk about the OS.

In another sign Canonical’s Unity desktop environment may not be resonating well with the wider Ubuntu community, Ubuntu Studio, will move from the GNOME to the Xfce desktop for its next release.

Ubuntu Linux Satanic Edition may sound like it's just a joke. But in its own way it makes an important about free software.

The release of the first beta of version 9.1 of the open source PostgreSQL database has opened a new era in enterprise-class reliability and data integrity that can compete with the big names, say its developers. CIO Australia interviewed Josh Berkus, Kevin Grittner, Dimitri Fontaine and Robert Haas about PostgreSQL 9.1 and its future.

Intel is establishing a joint innovation center with Tencent, one of China's largest Internet firms, to develop products and services around the chip maker's MeeGo mobile operating system.

CrunchBang Linux is a lightweight, minimalist Debian-derived Linux distro that lets you make the most of your old (or new hardware) and customise the user experience until you get it just right.