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Sights set on OpenStack Enterprise Linux vendor Red Hat posted strong financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2014 on Thursday, with earnings that beat both analysts' estimates and the company's own earlier guidance.…

Open hardware is gaining speed. The appetite for open source vehicles is growing. And while we may not have flying cars yet, we do have Tabby—an open source car design released by Open Source Vehicle this October. Want to swap out an internal combustible engine for an eco-friendly electric? Tabby can do that. And, this open source vehicle is not just for makers—it’s production ready. Tabby will be rolling off the assembly line in early 2014. Will you see Tabby cruising your streets? In this interview, we found out more about Tabby and got some insight into the open hardware movement from the team at Open Source Vehicle.

A more thorough, plain English guide to installing SteamOS

Published today are benchmarks from two Intel systems comparing the performance of Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" to Fedora 20 "Heisenbug" for various workloads. Especially for those using open-source graphics drivers, Fedora 20 can be worth the upgrade for performance reasons.

The prototype Steam Machines Valve recently sent out to 300 lucky beta testers are just prototypes that Valve says aren't indicative of the final form SteamOS-powered devices may take. They have even less in common with the third-party designs already leaking out or the roll-your-own SteamOS machines hobbyists are building.

That doesn't mean there's nothing to be learned from seeing just how Valve builds its first piece of PC gaming hardware, though. iFixit has cracked open a prototype box sent to staffer Christopher Patton.

Add Indicator for Lock Keys to your Ubuntu 13.10 system.

The most significant improvements in Petra are being backported to Maya.

An Intel engineer has published a patch-set providing a new GCC compiler architecture target for Intel's upcoming Broadwell CPUs...

Just because you're not on Linux doesn't mean you can't have awesome open-source tools. I was having a conversation with a friend and reader on Twitter the other day about music theory. Yes, I'm not just a computer nerd, but a music/math nerd too. Anyway after our conversation, I started looking for an open-source program for creating sheet music.

Today in Open Source: The LG Chromebase looks like an iMac. Plus: KDE 4.12 released, and a review of Linux Mint 16 Petra.

The Free Software Foundation today has come out for "the first time we've ever been able to encourage people to buy and use a laptop as-is." The Free Software Foundation now backs one laptop model as respecting the customer's freedoms, but are the hardware specs any good?

Add the Tomboy Notes Indicator to your Ubuntu 13.10 or Linux Mint 16 system. Tomboy Notes Indicator lets you take desktop notes and organize them with links. Here's how you can install it in Linux Mint 16 or Ubuntu 13.10.

We are a group of open and free software enthusiasts. Some are students; others work as software developers, testers or have other roles in various open source projects. We all share one passion—KDE.

Last week, we talked about just how important even your smallest contribution to FOSS might be. It doesn’t matter whether you occasionally spend time in forums helping others or if you submit code for review into the kernel. Everything you do goes into the sand pail. Eventually, everything you do filters down to the place it’s needed most: the everyday computer user.

Add the Disper Indicator app to your Ubuntu 13.10 system. The Disper Indicator lets you switch displays, here's how you can install it in Ubuntu 13.10.

This new release of RHEL OpenStack Platform 4.0 comes with Red Hat-hardened OpenStack Havana.

The MATE edition is as good as ever, while the Cinnamon edition continues to be let down by instabilities (despite the addition of more refinement and features in this release).

New technologies like MirageOS and OSv are the tip of the Cloud OS iceberg. The Library Operating System concept has been around for a while, but it is finding a new home in Xen-based clouds.

The MATE Compiz spin bundles MATE Desktop with Compiz Fusion. MATE Desktop is a lightweight, powerful Desktop designed with productivity and performance in mind. Compiz Fusion is a beautiful 3D windowing manager with Emerald theming. The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 20 ('Heisenbug').

With the end of the year quickly approaching, at Phoronix I have been re-testing all of the Linux graphics drivers to see how the performance has changed in 2013 and the features added/removed over the calendar year. I've been doing these annual Linux driver yearly recaps going back to 2005 when Linux GPU drivers were in their infancy compared to Windows. Yesterday I started with the NVIDIA 2013 Linux Year-In-Review of their first-rate binary driver while today I have some performance tests done for Intel's latest-generation Haswell graphics hardware.