Features

Quantum Computing

Possibilities

With the arrival of the “first commercially available quantum computer,” the D-Wave One, we look at what it is and what open source can contribute.

Google Dart

Google’s JavaScript Alternative

The Dart programming language is Google’s modern alternative to JavaScript. It will mainly run in browsers but can also be used at the command line and on servers as a replacement for PHP.

Free Culture Pioneering: Lunatics

Here’s how one free culture project is trying to use free software and crowdfunding to realize its goals.

Practical Wine

Building a Wine environment for Windows applications

More and more Windows applications run on Linux thanks to Wine. If you spend a little time on configuration and troubleshooting, you won’t be stuck in Windows – even with applications that no one dreamed would run on Linux.

Resetting Passwords with SystemRescueCd

SystemRescueCd

If you’re locked out of your Linux or Windows system, a handy Live Linux troubleshooting distro might be all you need to get back in. We’ll show you how to pick the lock with SystemRescueCd.

Raspberry Pi

Pioneer Computing

The sudden popularity of miniboard systems like Raspberry Pi have brought back the pioneering spirit of Linux’s early days. Suddenly, do it yourself in the open source community is back.

In-Memory DBMS

Main memory database systems

Thanks to powerful hardware, in-memory databases run without accessing mass memory devices, which means they handle transactions and evaluations at high speed, introducing a paradigm shift in the database market.

Crowdsourcing with OpenRelief

A crowdsource project creates a drone to be used in disaster relief.

OpenRelief gives drones a humanitarian purpose.

Cmdfs

Building virtual filesystems

Cmdfs builds a filtered virtual filesystem based on a source directory tree. You can even integrate other programs to convert data on the fly.

UEFI and Secure Boot

No Free Boots

The imminent Windows 8 implementation of UEFI with Secure Boot adds an extra layer of complexity for some Linux users. We look at the problem and two solutions from Fedora and Canonical.