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Parallella is an attempt to make Linux parallel computing easier and is advertised as a "supercomputer for everyone", but will it come to fruition?..

Internet memes—those bite-sized, ephemeral cultural artifacts that are shared and remixed over the Web—seem to be evermore pervasive online and offline. Many of them feature reoccurring characters, like Courage Wolf, Good Guy Greg, and Business Cat. They are "characters" in the sense that they are defined by a single unwavering archetype, but what sets them apart from traditional literary characters is that they aren't attached to stories.

very Detail Matters Round 2 is now open and aims to make Gnome 3.8 the most polished version yet. Don’t get fooled by “details”, this isn’t about details at all! This project is a really good opportunity to make a contribution to Gnome and as Allan Day says “If you fix just one bug, you can make a real difference to Gnome 3?. So, pick a bug, and get hacking!

According to its developers, version 2.5 of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a Java-based open source web framework for Ajax applications, offers significant performance improvements. Apparently, the overall code base has been reduced by 20 per cent, and the download size of the sample application dropped 39 per cent.

This week we explore why some users want to give up Java, how Google Compute Engine could challenge AWS and the status of the HTML5 Apps platform.

Sometimes you need to move a web site from one server to another. Instead of downloading the web site from the old server to your PC via FTP and uploading it from your PC to the new server, it would save a lot of time to simply copy the web site from one server to the other. This tutorial explains how to use Wget to download/move a web site from one server to the other via http://FTP.

I've been interested in 3-D printers ever since I saw one at a Maker Faire a few years ago, but it was only a year ago when I started seriously thinking about having one of my own. At that point, I started to realize just how many different options existed and ultimately started researching the RepRap family of 3-D printers (more on the different printer families below).

A Working Draft published by the W3C proposes a new push notification API for web applications. The system can use different protocols to deliver notifications to browsers even when the application in question is not in focus

Clementine Music Player 1.1 has been released with many new features and fixes. This major release brings long requested podcast support to the popular music player.

Windows 8 and the open source, Linux and free software communities are at odds, and the leaders come out to explain why

The new version of the "little language that compiles into JavaScript" includes changes that allow it to strip Microsoft's UTF-8 BOM from source files and fixes to correct deprecation warnings

In this post we will cover sending SMS through Android App and also how to read contacts.

Learn how to analyze the performance of your application using the cycles per instruction (CPI) analysis tool. The CPI tool is part of the IBM Software Development Kit (SDK) for PowerLinux.

For ARM's new ARMv8 64-bit architecture, Red Hat developers are creating a completely open version of the OpenJDK and the HotSpot JVM in what is believed to be the first full and open port of HotSpot since OpenJDK was freed five years ago

Individual membership is one of the most important programs we host at The Linux Foundation. It gives anyone the opportunity to support Linux and its creator Linus Torvalds, among other important activities. It also comes with a variety of perks like a personalized Linux.com email address ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and employee purchase pricing from Dell, HP and Lenovo.

NRDS, Nagios Remote Data Sender, is a component of Nagios XI that provides a passive method of communication. The unique aspect of NRDS is that on the Nagios server the administrator can design and build the configuration for multiple operating systems and then deploy those configurations with the plugins to the client.

Professional astronomers are in a very fortunate profession. They have the opportunity to continue their love of astronomy, travel the world, make significant discoveries, and get paid at the same time.

The BackBox team is pleased to announce the major release of BackBox Linux, version 3.0. The major release include features such as Linux kernel 3.2 and Xfce 4.8. Apart from the system major upgrade, all auditing tools are up to date as well. What's new: system upgrade; bug corrections; performance boost; improved start menu; improved Wi-Fi drivers (compat-wireless aircrack patched); new and updated hacking tools. System requirements: 32-bit or 64-bit processor; 512 MB of system memory; 4.4 GB of disk space for installation; graphics card capable of 800x600 pixel resolution; DVD-ROM drive or USB port.

Konstantin Kochereshkin has announced yesterday, October 24th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Beta release of the upcoming Rosa Desktop 2012 Linux operating system.

A lot has changed in the three years since the last major Windows announcement. Netbooks were on the rise. The iPad wouldn’t be introduced for another six months and Nokia still had the lead for most smartphone sales in the world. Only 172 million smartphones were sold in 2009 vs. an estimated 146 million units in just one quarter of this year. Without wide adoption of tablets or smartphones, Microsoft still dominated the world of personal computing. Linux, while popular in the server room, was virtually non-existent in consumer products, except for its brief rise in netbooks before Microsoft reportedly pressured its OEMs to stop production and shift back to Windows.