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What do you call a computer program that uses big data to write jokes? Basic, judging by the list of groan-worthy gags generated by this new wisecracking software. Eggheads at the University of Edinburgh have developed code dedicated to spitting out quips along the lines of: "I like my men like I like my monoxide - odourless" and "I like my women like I like my gas - natural".

The Italian Institute of Technology gave its first public demonstration of a Linux-based quadruped robot for navigating rough terrain. Meanwhile, a new version of the Hydraulic Quadruped (Hyq) robot is under development that can “feel” and step over obstacles using a step reflex algorithm, letting the robot navigate more easily in low-visibility environments.

This mini-howto describes how to set up KeePass on Centos 6. It requires building mono from source and installing the "portable" version of KeePass. Finally there are a few tweaks that need to be done so that it can execute properly.

When you run a virtual machine (VM) on VMware, the default boot sequence of the VM is “removable devices -> hard drive -> CD-ROM drive”. If you want to boot a VM from an ISO image instead, you need to change the boot sequence of the VM, so that it starts with CD-ROM drive. This tutorial describes how to change the boot order of a VMware VM.

Join Adrian Bridgwater, Trevor Pott, Freeform Dynamics' Analyst Dale Vile and Perforce's Mark Warren to discuss this significant trend in software development and deployment. The Reg’s group editor Joe Fay will be your host for the conversation. You can register before the Live Chat for free, and receive an email reminder before we go live.

The HackRF could do for software defined radio (SDR) what the Arduino did for microcontrollers, or what the Raspberry Pi did for ARM boards.

Ubuntu Forums are back to normal following a serious hack attack that exposed the usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords of 1.8 million open source users. Parent firm Canonical restored the forums on Tuesday as well as publishing a detailed summary of what went wrong and the broad steps it has taken to beef up security.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 19 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

MathJax is a cross-browser JavaScript library that displays mathematical equations in web browsers, using MathML, LaTeX and ASCIIMathML markup. MathJax is released as open-source software under the Apache license. This tutorial will teach you how to integrate MathJax in popular free and open source web platform WordPress.

Transmission is a must for those looking for a simple and efficient BitTorrent client for convenient everyday use, especially for lovers of downloading free music and software. The BitTorrent protocol is increasingly used, and sometimes almost indispensable, for example on a site of free music (http://www.jamendo.com/) is the official protocol, there are a few free clients such as Transmission. It is an open source, cross-platform, volunteer-based project.

The third development version of the upcoming PyGObject 3.10 library, for the GNOME 3.10 desktop environment, was announced a few days ago, bringing assorted fixes and improvements.

EJBCA is an enterprise class PKI Certificate Authority built on JEE technology. It is a robust, high performance, platform independent, flexible, and component based CA to be used stand-alone or integrated in other JEE applications.

This article identifies the finest open source Type 1 hypervisors that are available to download without charge. We also look at Linux kernel virtualization hypervisors.

The latest and greatest WordPress, version 3.6, named Oscar is released with a new blog-centric theme, autosave and post locking options, native support for audio and video embeds and many other improvements for users and developers.

Your answers also showed us just how diverse the readership here is. Not only did we see a lot of you offering up the usual suspects, such as Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora, we also got reminders of Linux’s rich history. It was somewhat gratifying to discover that some who visit here first tried Linux using long gone but not forgotten distros such as Yggdrasil and Soft Landing System.

GNOME has two new components for the upcoming GNOME 3.10 release: Maps and Geoclue2. These two GNOME packages saw their first official releases this week.

Samsung is reportedly bringing back the flip phone, adding Android and a pair of 3.7-inch touch screens to a form factor popular in the first GSM phones of the mid-1990s.

There's a neat new project devoted to running OS X applications in Linux. It's called Darling, and it reminds me of Wine. Wine, as you probably already know, lets Linux users run Windows applications. How does Darling work?

Here's how you can install the Intel Linux Graphics 1.02 in Ubuntu 13.04.

Here's how you can install the Intel Linux Graphics 1.02 in Fedora 19.