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Raspberry Pi, the tiny $25 computer project launched this morning to unprecedented demand and success…

The Raspberry Pi is here at last —now what can you do with it? Here is our pick of the project ideas that you can try with your Pi. Note that not all of these are going to work straight of the bat. The Raspberry Pi is brand new and will require some fiddling to get working properly. Give it a week or so however, and we reckon there will be several pre-packaged installers available for you to use if you lack the skills or time to try these yourself.

This tutorial shows how to create a portable MySQL installation on GNU/Linux. At the end of this guide you will obtain a portable MySQL installation on a target directory with its own databases, binaries, logs, pid files, etc. Consider always the use of a permission preserving packaging (like TAR) for moving the installation between systems or removable storages.

Hewlett-Packard continues to dismantle its webOS engineering team by handing nearly half of the remaining 600 techies their pink slips. The cuts began in September when HP's axe fell on 525 webOS employees following the decision to shutter the hardware unit that designed the now defunct TouchPad and Pre3 devices.

Announced eariler today, February 28th, the Fedora 17 Alpha (Beefy Miracle) operating system has been officially released for testing.

The release schedule for KDE SC 4.9 has been made official, which targets an early August release of this next software package compilation for the KDE desktop...

Like previous editions of Fedora, Fedora 17 will ship with several major feature enhancements. Some will be of interest only to enterprise users, while others will be mainly for desktop users. Other features will, of course, appeal to the needs of both enterprise and desktop users. Here is a list of the top features that desktop users should expect on Fedora 17 when the final stable version is released in May.

Credit card size ARM Linux computer, Raspberry Pi is now available for purchase. Currently Model B priced at $ 35 is on sale. Model A ($25) will be available later this year. The main difference from the Model A is that Model B include an Ethernet port, and 2 USB ports. Also, the sale has been limited to one unit per person.

For some results that are more interesting than the recent RHEL / Oracle / CentOS / Scientific Linux comparison, here are some benchmarks pitting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 against a development snapshot of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on three different systems.

The first official Alpha for the upcoming release Fedora 17 is available to download. After Jared K. Smith “fedora project leader” announced the name suggestions for the upcoming release fedora 17, many people had participated for suggesting and voting for the codename, and it concluded with the codename “Beefy Miracle” Yummy!!

Getting the correct time on computers running Linux is more complicated than you might think, and formatting it can be even more challenging. Let Wazi walk you through the forest of options.

Interview with Terrence O'Brien of Engadget, where he talks about his Ubuntu setup and his dreams for Ubuntu for Android.

I’m going to show you that you can put together a Linux based workstation designed for graphics based tasks that can easily rival that of commercial workstation systems.

Fedora 17, which is codenamed the Beefy Miracle, is now up to its alpha milestone with many new features for this exciting Red Hat sponsored release...

The cat and mouse game of zero day exploits eventually became more than I was willing to tolerate. I decided that I would run Linux full time at home, and never use Windows again. I still use nothing but PCLinuxOS on all my home computers. There are several reasons why I stay with it.

Coverflow ALT-TAB is a great extension for cinnamon that let’s you Alt-Tab through your windows in a cover-flow manner.

Andy Rubin, Google's Android head honcho, made a very public statement this week at Mobile World Congress about a firewall between the Android division and the company's new Android handset maker, Motorola Mobility. After "Don't Be Evil", perhaps Google should have learned to avoid such blanket declarations.

Eben says there will be an announcement at 06:00 GMT on Wednesday, Februaary 29th. It might be that the Raspberry Pi is on sale or when the Raspberry Pi will be going on sale.

The first alpha milestone of the Fedora Linux 17 release is now available. This is the release that is known as the Beefy Miracle and it's not just a marketing message, it's also a statement about how much 'beef' has been packed into this release.

The Fedora Project proudly announced a few minutes ago, February 28th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Alpha version of the upcoming Fedora 17 operating system, due for release in May 2012.