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The Copenhagen Suborbitals, an open source effort to launch a human into space, have released a tool they've been using internally to create their video streams: Snowmix.

We have known about Valve's plans to make Steam more than just about gaming and beginning today you can buy some non-gaming software from the digital distribution client...

Network monitoring tools can help to identify issues before they escalate to emergency status. This type of software is not only useful for network administrators. Home users with a small network or even just a single computer will benefit from the software featured in this article.

After what the developers call "11 months of grueling work", the very first release candidate for the ARM version of openSUSE is now available. The release is based on the current openSUSE 12.2 and supports ARM7-type hardware. This includes Texas Instrument's OMAP3 and OMAP4 Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC), Marvell's ArmadaXP 510 and Freescale i.MX51 processors.

Open source is about more than the code, it’s about the culture. The open culture that many open source communities embrace is entrenched in organizations like Code for America. It’s obvious as I sit here during the opening day of the Code for America Summit in San Francisco, CA.

In my previous article, I showed how combining two instructions into one can speed up a very small countdown loop. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how a single non-optimizing compiler option can have an even greater impact on performance.

For some, the 1st of the month is something to rejoice about, but unlike checks from the Department of Welfare, KDE brings nothing but good tidings and cheer with this latest series of updates, one day later.

This article is meant to provide some food for thought, concerning the (probable) surcease of Linux growth. I am not saying I know something for sure here, I am just having this feeling that 2011 was the best year for the Linux desktop and will try to share a maybe somewhat premature picture, using multiple information sources. Note that when referring to Linux I mean GNU/Linux distributions and not the kernel alone so Android will be considered something different here.

Linux 3.6 has been officially released, and from most angles it appears to be a lack-luster one, bringing only what Linus calls “solid progress”. Of course like any major kernel release, Kernel 3.6 comes with a bevy of new drivers, optimizations and more. But one features stands out above all the rest, and it’s really a big deal.

Galsoft 1.1 is now available. Galsoft Linux is a Lubuntu-based desktop distribution localised into the Galician language.

Jon Masters summarises the latest goings-on in the Linux kernel community, including the 2012 Kernel Summit and the closing of the 3.6 merge window

First off, I had never planned to do a review of any DJ software. I’ve never been a DJ, nor have I ever had the desire to be a DJ. But you know what they say; Never say never. So, how did I come to learn about Mixx, and how did I end up with a real use for it? I’ll tell you.

Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) opened up registration for the FANG Challenges, a set of three next-generation military vehicle design competitions that will kick off in January, and will put tools based on approaches borrowed from software development and chip design in the hands of teams of engineers and designers. In an effort to reinvent how such complex systems are designed and built, DARPA is preparing for the first real test of its efforts to use open-source software and Web collaboration—with millions of dollars in prize money at stake.

What could IT pros possibly learn from the newspaper industry collapse? More than you might imagine because all disruption follows a similar pattern and IT is in the throes of some major changes of its own.

The smartphone world has suddenly gone too Samsung-ish. A fresh new design from other manufactures should bring a nice change in the segment. Why don’t Google roll the ball back to HTC, who had designed their very first Nexus device? Their designs have been fairly different from other manufactures and HTC One X was a pure winner. Unibody design anyone? While Sony and LG have more or less produced not-so-innovative and at times, ugly devices, Motorola has shown some good design skills, with its RAZR devices as well.

Linux Hero Terry Hancock discusses his KDE setup, which allows him to produce a web series. Terry discusses the benefits and challenges of Debian and talks about his love of virtual desktops.

An Ubuntu based distro, wattOS uses Openbox and is optimised to be lightweight, low-power, and able to run on older machines

Preorders have opened for the HexBright, an open source high performance LED flashlight with onboard Arduino-compatible microcontroller.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 12.2 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. I use PHP-FPM in this tutorial instead of Lighttpd's spawn-fcgi.

The perf performance counters sub-system and utility are seeing some mighty improvements with the Linux 3.7 kernel...