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FUD is a lot like commodity open source software. It just keeps moving up the stack. A decade ago, the FUD was all about operating systems and database software. Now? It's migrated up to the cloud stack. FUD may be mobile, but it hasn't gotten any prettier.

Google tried retail once with a Google branded Nexus One phone and failed miserably, but instead of learning from that experience, it's going to try another shot at retail -- this time selling Android tablets. What makes it think it will get different results?

The first development release of Phoronix Test Suite 4.0-Suldal is now available. There's some exciting features met in this first milestone that will please those using this open-source automated testing infrastructure if you're using it for benchmarking or if you're just a Phoronix.com reader of our many published benchmark results...

The open-source ARM Mali graphics driver, known as the the Lima project, has achieved a major milestone...

Being discussed following the Ubuntu 12.04 Desktops Impact Performance, Power Consumption was the impact that KDE's KWin compositing window manager (and others that don't redirect fullscreen windows by default) has on the OpenGL gaming performance...

This article describes two instances where open source is making an impact. It clearly has potential to improve the quality of our lives.

Verizon's new HomeFusion LTE fixed wireless Internet service opens up interesting opportunities in rural areas for Bohemians and makers. The FOSS and maker culture overlap a lot, too.

Besides a complete set of office productivity application that you will find on most office suites, Calligra also comes with two graphics applications (Krita for drawing and Karbon for vector graphics) and a project management application named Calligra Plan.

In an interesting example of life imitating art, the events unfolding in North Korea this week are directly paralleling those that I envisioned in my book, The Alexandria Project. 

OpenGameArt, Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation have teamed up for a new game making contest: Liberated Pixel Cup. This is a really great opportunity as we don't see these kinds of competitions in open source gaming very often.

Seats are now available for the 4th Annual Enterprise End User Summit, held at the New York Stock Exchange and hosted by The Linux Foundation...

In the editorial for the 3d issue of Firebird SQL newsletter we'd like to draw your attention to the upcoming Firebird 3. Firebird Project needs more testers for Firebird 3, and even if you are short in time, you can help Firebird with very simple quick test - download Firebird 3, make backup backup/restore of your current Firebird database and try to work with it.

Mosh is replacement of SSH for remote connections to Unix/Linux systems. It brings a few noticeable advantages over well known SSH connections. In brief, it’s faster and more responsive, especially on long delay and/or unreliable links. In this article you'll find why it makes sense to use Mosh instead of plain SSH.

The Calligra team has announced the first release ever of the Calligra suite. This marks the end of a long development period lasting almost one and a half year. It is the first release in a long series which is planned to make improved applications every 4 months. Take the tour to discover some of the apps of Calligra. read more

What cars XP, 7, 8, Mac and Linux would be in the Cars world. What cars XP, 7, 8, Mac and Linux would be in the Cars world. From a city friendly family car which everyone can ride and fix for cheap to a conceptual unknown car to BMW and muscle cars. Have a look and see why.

Event keynote showcases the power of technology, working together at TEDxMaastricht 2012

The Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204 operating system has been announced by Clement Lefebvre on April 11th, 2012.

"Synfig Studio is intended to be professional 2D animation software and is available to download for free. It has been around for quite some time now and seems to have had a fairly checkered history in terms of development"

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

Tethering your DSLR camera to a computer opens a whole new world of possibilities: you can instantly view your shots on a large screen, trigger your camera remotely, practice the art of time-lapse photography, and perform other clever tricks. While commercial tethering software for Windows and Mac OS X often costs serious money, you can enjoy all the advantages of tethered shooting on Linux free of charge courtesy of Entangle. This tethering software lets you control practically all camera settings, trigger the shutter from the computer, view a live preview of a scene, and automatically download captured images to the computer.