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David Tavares, the developer of the Pear OS Linux operating system, has proudly announced a few hours ago (April 4) that the server edition of the highly anticipated Pear OS 7 Linux distribution is now available for download.

The micro computer Raspberry Pi has become a real hit among tech fans all over the world. The model A was sold out in the US within a few hours. Everybody wants this credit-card sized computer. And of course, being cute and cheap isnt the main reason behind its success. It is because with Raspberry Pi, people can create a lot of amazing things. And if you wonder what these amazing things are, here is a list of 10 awesome projects created with Raspberry Pi.

Heroku's Matt Thompson has announced the Helios framework, an open source backend for iOS applications which provides a range of essential services. These include data synchronisation, user accounts, push notifications, in-app purchases and passbook integration. The design focuses on "mobile first" developers who build out their applications on the mobile device and then want to implement the server-side mechanisms as they become necessary.

This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Redaxo 4.4.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

The chief developer of the popular alternative Android firmware CyanogenMod thought that requiring devices to report unique smartphone and tablet data would be an unqualified blessing. They reckoned without their users.

KDE 4.10.2 improves the desktop environment's Personal Information Management (PIM) application, Kontact, and its window manager and compositor, KWin. In total, the updated fixes 107 bugs

Late last year, I wrote about the EFF’s project to leverage the Patent Office’s new Preissuance Submissions procedure to promote open 3D printing technology. Here we are, several months later, and the fight for open 3D printing continues. Now, the EFF has partnered with Ask Patents to facilitate crowdsourcing of prior art searches for various 3D printing-related patent applications.

Google has announced that its Chrome browser is dropping the popular WebKit browser engine in favor of Blink, a new fork of the code that the Chocolate Factory says will make Chrome faster, more powerful, and more secure. The internet ad giant announced the move on Wednesday via the official blog of the Chromium project, the open source effort upon which Chrome is based.

Linpus has informed us via email that the second maintenance release of the Linpus Lite 1.9 Linux Live operating system is now available for download and upgrade (for existing users only).

The Activision and Raven Software game studios have open-sourced two of their games for "for people to learn from and play with" the code. The source code to the games Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy are now open-source and hosted on SourceForge.

Are you winning if you own ninety-nine percent of a moribund market? I don't think so. Linux and Open Source/Free Software has crossed the chasm now. It has become the mainstream. Every Android tablet or phone out there is a Linux and Open Source/Free Software platform, and in the next few years I fully expect this to become the most common form of computing for most people worldwide.. So have we won? Should we just pack up the advocacy tent and go home? Unfortunately not. Most of the applications running on these devices are still proprietary. Most people using mobile devices, although they might be running a Free Software operating system underneath, still don't realize why Free Software is important.

Embest is accepting pre-orders for a $99 single-board computer (SBC) based on a 1GHz dual-core Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 system-on-chip (SOC). The compact “MarS Board” provides interfaces for Gig-Ethernet, SATA, HDMI, camera, and more, and it’s supported with ready-to-use embedded Linux and Android OS images.

One constant that is ever-present on the Internet: Change. In a story on TechCrunch Google made the decision today to fork WebKit to 'Blink' to advance their projects in the name of "speed and simplicity".

It is well known that Slackware ships with KDE4 and codecs for various types of audio and video. However, MP4 and a few other codecs are not supported OOB.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

The ownCloud developers have released the third update to ownCloud 5.0 in 24 hours after two security updates caused installations of the software to become unusable. ownCloud 5.0.3 seems to fix these problems

GlusterFS's problems sprang from an ext4 filesystem patch by Fan Yong that addressed a long-standing issue in ext4's support for the readdir() API by widening the "directory offset" values used by the API from 32 to 64 bits. That change was needed to reliably support readdir() traversals in large directories; we'll discuss those changes and the reasons for making them in a companion article. One point from that discussion is worth making here: these "offset" values are in truth a kind of cookie, rather than a true offset within a directory. Thus, for the remainder of this article, we'll generally refer to them as "cookies". Fan's patch made its way into the mainline 3.4 kernel (released in May 2012), but appears also to have been ported into the 3.3.x kernel that was released with Fedora 17 (also released in May 2012).

Black Annex is an action strategy game where the player operates the hands-on business of corporate sabotage and infiltration. Manage company resources, customise and outfit your agents before deploying them to steal, destroy, kidnap and kill as the mission and your own choices dictate.

The CyanogenMod developers have reversed a change in how the alternative open source firmware for Android devices transmits anonymised development information about its users to the project maintainer after users protested about the change. CyanogenMod has, in the past, transmitted information to the developers, including the device manufacturer and model, CyanogenMod version, mobile network provider, country, IMEI number and MAC address. It would do this by default but users could disable the functionality if they wished. But with a recent change, this option would have been removed from the upcoming CyanogenMod 10.1 by CyanogenMod project leader Steve "cyanogen" Kondik.

The Raspberry Pi’s $25 “Model A” made a brief appearance this week on the website of Allied Electronics, its U.S. distributor. Compared to its $35 sibling, the lower end Linux-fired SBC (single board computer) sports half the RAM, one USB port instead of two, and lacks an Ethernet spigot. It’s unclear when (or whether) additional [...]