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Feeling dangerous? On Tuesday 17 June, gaming dev David Braben will be answering your questions on Elite, Raspberry Pi and how software development has changed over the last 30 years.

Preparations are under way for the biggest change in the UK’s approach to computing education – but Raspberry Pi’s education expert Clive Beale reveals that the government is not putting enough money where its mouth is

'In 1991, Captain Cyborg said we'd have real life Terminators'. This was the week when a piece of software (supposedly) passed the Turing Test, giving the world all the “robot overlord” headlines they could possibly need in a slow, sunny news week.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finally on the cusp of its long-anticipated study to examine the harmful effects of Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs). read more

The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project is an index of linked open data citations and ontological connections that cross-tabulate the following: read more

Learn to use the GPIO pins to interact with the outside world – this is where Raspberry Pi projects get really interesting...

As scientists and researchers develop new and better methods for collecting data, from new sensor technology to advancements in data mining techniques, the sheer volume of data to be analyzed grows accordingly. For big data, you need big clusters, and OpenStack has proven to be an important tool for many scientific institutions seeking to manage and orchestrate their machines and workloads. read more

Parrot is prepping two Linux-based mini-drones: a $160 “Jumping Sumo” wheeled robot and a $100 “Rolling Spider” quadrocopter that can fly, roll, or climb.

This tutorial explains the configuration of a static IP address (IPv4 and IPv6), the hostname and nameservers on CentOS. To be compatible with Desktop and Server Systems, we do the configuration on the shell.

This guide explains the installation and configuration of a VNC server on Ubuntu 14.04 server.

Many Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients in Fedora (xchat, hexchat, irssi) only support the IRC protocol, however many users also converse in other Instant Messaging (IM) protocols like Google Talk. One option to have all your IMs and Chats in one application is to switch to a client that supports both IRC and IM, such as pidgin or empathy. However, there is another option that does not require you to switch IRC clients — bitlbee.

Jon Masters summarises the latest goings on in the Linux Kernel community, including the Linux 3.15 merge window, and ongoing development

Since the launch last June of Mozilla Science Lab, we’ve been working to unpack what science on the web and like the web means, and what Mozilla can do to support it.

Red Hat engineer Adam Miller decided it was time to start a conversation about what it means to be part of the open source world, and to remind his colleagues of the responsibility to use open source software and to contribute to making it better. He captured my attention, and that of many other Red Hatters globally.

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Containers are finally coming into their own as a virtualization alternative, but until now their programs were incompatible. Now, the major container players are agreeing to line up behind Docker's libcontainer.

The next generation desktop from KDE is taking shape and the second beta is out now for testing. The developers have settled on a name - Plasma 5, and there is only one month to go until the first release so please test packages from your distro or download the Neon 5 Live ISO to see what is working and what needs fixed.

Aaeon’s 6.3 x 4.1 x 1.37-inch FWS-2250 is dubbed “the world’s smallest network appliance,” and has an Atom E3800, four gigabit ports, and 20W consumption. Aaeon briefly tipped the Fedora Linux-ready FWS-2250 back in October in conjunction with the Atom E3800 (Bay Trail-I) system-on-chip announcement. The SMB/SOHO oriented appliance is said to support small firewalls, IDS/IPS, load balancing, network access control, bandwidth management, web filters, and anti-spam applications.

More speed, better performance and increased ARM support are what we expect. Dual Shock 4 and EFI 64-bit bootable from 32-bit we weren't.

It's been more than a year since I've had a successful build of Chromium that I was willing to share with anyone else, but last night I pushed out a Fedora 20 x86_64 build of the current stable Chromium. Here's where you can go and get it.

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux distribution.