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Yorba Desktop The Gnome Desktop and Beyond
Sep 10, 2012

At a time when many developers are focused on cloud applications, Yorba’s sights remain fixed firmly on the desktop.

Quantum Computing Possibilities
Aug 27, 2012

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
Aug 20, 2012

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
Aug 14, 2012

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
Aug 06, 2012

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
Jul 31, 2012

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
Jul 30, 2012

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
Jul 13, 2012

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.
Jul 12, 2012

OpenRelief gives drones a humanitarian purpose.

Cmdfs Building virtual filesystems
Jun 27, 2012

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

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