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Semiconductor start-up Adapteva has announced its kickstarter plan to create an open-source experimentation board with a massive amount of parallel processing power.

While the new AMD Trinity APUs are what's exciting and being benchmarked at the moment, here are some updated compiler tests from earlier this month on an AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer system...

In this tutorial I will show you how to set up pfSense 2.0.1 up as an Internet Gateway with Squid Proxy / Squidguard Filtering. I will also show that you have to configure some extra features of pfSense like traffic shapping with squid. This type of configuration would be useful for people who want to set up wireless hot spots or Internet cafe's etc.

This tutorial describes how to create Android applications with Eclipse. It is based on Eclipse 4.2 (Juno), Java 1.6 and Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The great thing with Android programming is that all needed tools are free and you can use Linux, Windows or Mac operating systems. We're going to install and configure the following software in order to start Android programming:

Gigolo is a natty front-end for managing remote filesystems using GNOME Virtual File System (GVfs or GIO). Should you be interested in getting it?

Or should I say: “grep -R doesn’t automatically search amazon” ? This is becoming the most popular bug on launchpad, and if you are an Ubuntu user perhaps you have already seen it, for all the others..this is an interesting “bug” on a feature request, this is the original text of the bug posted by the user akeane

The Inverse team has just released SOGo v2.0 which features native Outlook compatibility using OpenChange and Samba4. This means Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 can talk directly to SOGo - just like if it was a Microsoft Exchange server. No plugins are required in Outlook to make this work.

Netflix has a long history of keeping their customers under thumb, is it time the community fight back?

The second beta release for the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" Linux distribution is now available for testing...

Two-Factor Authentication Integration Announced Today

Quite a few options exist as far as Android tablets go. Some of them are great choices for personal entertainment and media consumption. Google's new Nexus 7 is a powerful little beast designed to serve up media from Google Play. Amazon's Kindle Fire is a great device for tapping Amazon's extensive content offerings.

The maker of an industrial control system designed to be used with so-called smart grid networks disclosed to customers last week that hackers had breached its network and accessed project files related to a control system used in portions of the electrical grid.

The latest achievement within the Wayland camp is wlterm, a native terminal emulator...

Canonical announced today, September 27th, that the second and last Beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system is now available for download.

Android may not be as fully open as many FOSS fans would like it to be, but the fact remains that it's essentially the poster child for Linux's success in the mobile world. So it was with some dismay we looked on at the impromptu battle that sprang up recently between Google and Acer over Alibaba's Aliyun OS.

OnSeptember 24th, the 4.0 Beta version of Qomo Linux, the communitydistribution of Linux-ren, was distributed. it is a grand new distribution thathas been developed from the scratch by the Qomo team, for several months.

Steam announced late yesterday via its blog that Steam and L4D2 will enter internal beta stage next week. This means that the software will be tested internally for a matter of 2 to 4 weeks. After that initial phase of testing Valve reports that there will be an official external beta program.

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal beta 2 has been made avaialble for download today. There are quite a few changes in Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2, including a new Unity version which brings some more polish and tweaks along with 3 new Unity lenses, Amazon and Ubuntu One Music store webapps installed by default, a new default wallpaper, but also some LightDM and Messaging Menu changes. Read on to find out more!

AMD and Bluestacks have announced a partnership to bring Android apps to Windows 7 and 8 PCs and tablets.

Presently, Cinnamon is the most buzz-generating and headline-grabbing desktop environment in the Free Software community. But generating buzz and grabbing headlines does not a production-ready graphical interface make.