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We have known for a while now that Fedora 21 won't be released before August, but it looks like the actual release that's now being planned won't happen until the fourth quarter...

This article shows how to create a simple blog site using the MongoDB Document Database and the Django Web framework.

Not so long ago all of us pretty much did our computing either on a desktop or a laptop. Those were pretty much our only choices, unless servers are included and they’re pretty much desktops without…well, a desktop.

Diamond tipped a conduction-cooled Quantum SBC for data acquisition, available with either AMD or i.MX6 CPUs and featuring a tiny stackable PCI Express bus. The Qseven standard is gradually bringing together the worlds of embedded ARM and x86 development.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now available in the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) Region, where government agencies can deploy it to meet compliance and regulatory standards.

Puppy Arcade is a FREE retro gaming operating system, with many emulators included for different systems & consoles, plus the multi-system rom browser 'Rom-Loader', and many other exclusive tools.

Red Hat expands its open-source platform-as-a-service efforts with support for Microsoft technologies, but it's not production-ready (yet).

Very much inspired by my interview with Bryan Behrenshausen, I’ve been spending a lot more time working with Markdown. Day-to-day, at work and at home, I usually work with either HTML or word processed documents. Markdown is simple enough, but there is a learning curve....., so while one of the advantages of it is that it doesn’t require any kind of special editor, I went through a few Markdown editors, trying to find the one I like best. I eventually narrowed my list to three: ReText, UberWriter, and gedit-markdown.

For many years, we've highlighted how copyright maximalists have abused the international trade process to expand copyright monopolies around the globe. If you're interested in the history there, I highly recommend the book Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?, which details much of the history.

Now anyone is entitled to their own opinion and views of the world, but it is alarming to see that the very people who are in charge of formulating the rules that will shape our use of the digital environment for years to come are basing their ideas on a rather simplistic model of the Internet, that looks at the Internet as if it was yet another push medium in the the line of newspapers, radio, CDs or television.

Want a good-paying Linux job, but don't have the skills? The Linux Foundation is setting up a new program of online classes for you.

Fotoxx is a free and open source photo editing application. Here's how you can install Fotoxx 14.03.2 in Linux Mint 16.

This week's round-up includes the OpenStack enterprise readiness debate, Shuttleworth's decision to stick with MySQL and more.

Last week we talked about Broadcom finally open-sourcing their VideoCore IV 3D Graphics Stack and it is indeed the real McCoy, but the $10,000 Quake III bounty has yet to be claimed for getting it to work on the Raspberry Pi.

Roku announced a new streaming media stick that’s compatible with standard HDMI ports, in hopes of slowing the growing momentum of Google’s Chromecast.

The Calligra team announces the release of version 2.8 of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine.

"GoDaddy is known for hosting millions of Websites, using widely adopted open-source technologies like WordPress," Mark Collier, chief operating officer of the OpenStack Foundation, told eWEEK. "So the embrace of OpenStack is an awesome sign for the project, and we expect their massive scale and contributions to benefit the whole community."

Mesa 10.1 was released this morning as the latest three-month update to this 3D library and graphics driver stack used throughout the Linux desktop ecosystem. With Mesa 10.1 there are tons of improvements, while one of the big highlights is OpenGL 3.3 support for the open-source Radeon and Nouveau drivers.

Add version 1.8 of MATE to your Linux Mint 16 computer.

Unvanquished has released like clockwork their 25th alpha release, this time ripping out their old renderer completely.