Tired of that big clunky media center unit taking up shelf space in your living room? We’ll show you how to put together a tiny multimedia system with the versatile and ever-popular Raspberry Pi.

Simon is a sophisticated speech recognition tool with easy access to two powerful speech recognition engines, Julius and CMU Sphinx.

As someone who writes about Linux and open source software for a living, I have tools and tricks that are essential for my daily computing. In this installment of the Workspace feature, I share my personal favorites with you.

in addition to its comprehensive tool set, Libreoffice packs a built-in Basic-like scripting language that can be used to automate repetitive tasks and extend the suite’s default functionality.

Defragfs optimizes files on a system, allowing videos to load faster and large archives to open in the blink of an eye.

How does the latest Windows work in a virtual machine? We tried out Windows 8 as a guest system in vMware Workstation and virtualBox on Linux.

• Linux Foundation reports Secure Boot solution
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Plasma Active 3
• Android OS Tops
• Linaro Enterprise
• Group formed for ARM architecture
• Android installed on 3 of 4 smartphones

Red Hat peps up performance of multimedia applications on remote desktops with SPICE (Simple Protocol For Independent Computing Environments).