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In the open source world, a women-only event seems counter-intuitive. Yet I am finding reasons for such events the more I attend them. At the OpenStack Summit, a twice-a-year event where OpenStack contributors get together to plan the next release, the Women of OpenStack group has set up events where we invite the women first. Men aren't excluded, but our hope is to get more OpenStack women together. I can hardly capture the value of getting together with other women in OpenStack at the Summit, but here goes.

One of the most popular and useful projects with Raspberry Pi board is turning RPi into a media center box. This article will discuss how to set up a media center on Raspberry Pi using two of the most popular media center images: Raspbmc and OpenELEC. Both images use XBMC as built-in media player software.

Dell's Wyse division, takes an HDMI stick, adds some Android, mixes in some thin-client sauce, and bakes up a new kind of portable PC.

Learn how gprof can help you to identify the performance bottlenecks in your program’s source code

You know how on TV, NFL analysts will pit one football team against another and say what areas they need to execute well in order to win the game? Here is my take on the most popular desktop Linux distros: Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Chrome OS. Let's not mince words here: Windows is still the undisputed king of the desktop with OS X a distant second. In the meantime, Linux does not even show up on the radar, especially where it counts: in retail outlets and the average consumer's mind.

If you’ve had any experience appifying your favorite web services, you’ll notice that it’s pretty hit-and-miss — unless you’re using Gnome.

ZDNet's Monday Morning Opener: The death of XP and the birth of Windows 8 could create an unexpected opportunity for Android and Apple.

Until I started graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I had never heard of open source. However, every computer science department of any age and stature uses open source software to support their infrastructure. One or another variant of Linux was always being installed on our desktops by the departmental systems administrators, and many academic programs are open source. I accepted the whole situation more or less as I found it.

On February 2, Linus Torvalds had the pleasure of announcing the the first Release Candidate for the the upcoming Linux kernel 3.14 is now available for download and testing.

Following bellow (sic) builds Light Weight X Windows environment on Fedora 20 Cloud instance and demonstrate (sic) running same instance in Spice session via virt-manager ( Controller connects to Compute node via virt-manager ).

Manage a team of ghosthunters and free London from paranormal terror in turn-based battles. Personally I think this game is a little gem!

Apparently, an independent developer has announced recently that it started developing a GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the Linux uTorrent server software, written in C++ using Gtkmm, around the popular and powerful GTK+ toolkit, and called GuTorrent.

AMD has unleashed their latest beta driver for AMD graphics card holders, full of lots of goodies, but is it enough?

For those users with SPARC64 hardware, LLVM's Clang compiler has received support for this old architecture.

Papers, Please a game we have confirmed to you a few times to have a future Linux version has finally entered testing!

Auris launched a Kickstarter campaign for a portable, Android-based “Wily” streaming media player with a 7-inch touchscreen, 90dB speakers, WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI, and a webcam. Auris, which already sells an $80 “Skye” WiFi music receiver and a $50 “FreeDa” Bluetooth receiver, is now prepping an Android 4.2.2-based portable combination speaker and media-streamer called Wily. The […]

One of the drawbacks of buying a barebones PC like Intel’s NUC—at least if you’re a Windows user—is that it comes with no operating system. The big PC OEMs get Windows at a steep discount compared to end users, and you’ll have to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 for a full OEM Windows license (and more if you want a retail version with tech support)...

... Many Windows computers include features like Fastboot or Secure Boot that need to be disabled or circumvented to use Linux in UEFI mode, and while the NUC supports these features for Windows, they aren’t enabled by default. Installing Linux on the NUC should have been the easiest part of the whole process, but for most of our distributions it ended up being a gigantic pain, and that comes down to the NUC's EFI implementation.

Ubuntu is still using a lot of GNOME applications, including the file manager Nautilus (now Files), but that will change soon enough.

Unfortunately for some of you, Arch Linux is still not using the recently released Linux kernel 3.13. As such, Arch Linux 2014.02.01 is powered by Linux kernel 3.12.9, which is also the latest stable release of the upstream Linux 3.12 kernel series.

The idiom 'don't judge a book by its cover' can be extended to 'don't judge a computer game by its graphics'. Whilst many of the games featured in this article have unremarkable graphics, they have many redeeming qualities, including challenging gameplay, and stretching the brain.