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A recent survey found that most respondents had no clue what the term "Cloud Computing" meant, but were using cloud services without realizing it. And that's fine because our goal shouldn't be to advance industry buzz words, it should be to make good services that people use, regardless what you call the technology behind it.

The Code for America Brigade recently launched Race for Reuse. It's a different kind of contest that aims to increase adoption of existing open source projects with real dollars. The goal isn't to build something brand new—it's to encourage volunteer teams (called "brigades") across the U.S. to stand up and support existing open source projects. Because one of the more difficult parts of deploying open source apps is building the user community around the projects and getting citizens engaged.

So it seems Valve is doing another pre-closed Steam Linux Beta push on their end with the official "group" now open on the Steam website.

From the 'End of the Traditional Desktop' files: Microsoft has a big launch event today in New York City for Windows 8. Surprisingly I got invited, but no I won't be there. Linux users like myself however really should thank Microsoft though, Window 8 is truly a great gift.

When Condoleeza Rice asked, "who could have imagined a terrorist would use a plane to crash into a building" after 9/11, people were quick to point out "Tom Clancy." Well, here we go again.

There just doesn't seem to be any rest for the weary here in the Linux blogosphere lately, what with the release of Ubuntu Linux 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" last week and the "Rectangle with Rounded Corners" 5 not long before that. Next up? Well, it's Windows 8, which officially launches on Friday.

Dot Categories: DeveloperIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

xTuple's 'PostBooks' is pitched as being the 'next step' for small and medium businesses whose needs are no longer being met by Intuit's proprietary QuickBooks system.

Dell and Calxeda have donated a concept ARM-based server to the Apache Software Foundation. With the server, ASF developers can build and test software like Hadoop, Cassandra and the Apache Server on ARM architecture

Ryan Gordon, the well-known Linux game porter and developer of SDL and other open-source projects, along with Sam Lantinga, another key SDL developer and recent hire for Valve's Linux team, have proposed a window manager change to work out the full-screen X11 window mess...

The latest beta of the Russian firm's Linux distribution adds a new boot menu option for installing on lower-spec hardware, includes full support for UEFI and updates a number of the included components

It’s only been a year or so since the world first started salivating over the Raspberry Pi. Not only over the potential of the Pi, but the value as well. We have seen plenty of clones since, but this device is the first one to really outshine the Pi is every way conceivable. The Cubieboard is packing to following specifications:

Which collaboration tool is most widely adapted in your organization? IRC (chat) Mailings lists/email Bug tracker Wikis Teleconference Version Control System EtherPad Facebook Groups Most businesses today know that utilizing collaboration tools increases the liklihood success for a project, and for the organization as a whole. When people work together, brain power is multiplied; not only does more work tend to get done, but better work. The loner mentality—whether it's applied to how we think about office space, meetings, or project management—just doesn't measure up.

A bug introduced with version 3.6.2 of the Linux kernel can cause an ext4 filesystem to lose data if the system is rebooted twice in a short period of time. After the bug was reported, kernel developer Ted Ts'o quickly published a patch

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 12.10 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Feels like topic-necromancy right here, eh? Well, Blizzard isn't completely off hook when it comes to Diablo III. We've received reports of Linux-Wine users getting hit hard with the banhammer from Blizzard's auto-ban service and it's the WineHQ holocaust all over again.

While Wayland is sitting in the public limelight, DirectFB continues to exist as another means of handling Linux displays and input. DirectFB continues to quietly march on with new capabilities...

Ubuntu developers will be discussing this week about how they can rapidly bring-up support for new hardware within the Linux distribution...

While the ultimate future of Texas Instruments' OMAP division remains uncertain, their software engineers continue to work on maturing the OMAP5 Linux support...

Getting kids interested in electronics can be difficult, but the open source Hummingbird Robotics Kit aims to make it much more approachable.