Despite delays due to the move to a i686 desktop kernel for 32-bit systems, milestone 3 is finally available. This milestone brings progress on a number of features including GNOME 3.4, LibreOffice 3.5.2, Plymouth and more....

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Version 2.4 of the Calligra office suite has been released. The version number notwithstanding, this is Calligra's first release in this form; there is a lot of interesting stuff to be found therein. "Calligra now has a completely rewritten text layout engine that can handle most of the advanced layout......

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It's a two-second trip to visit walkyourcity.org. But before you head over there, you'll want to hear from Matt Tomasulo, founder of CityFabric and chief instigator of Walk Raleigh and Walk [Your City]. Urban Times called Walk [Your City] "Open Source Guerrilla Wayfinding." It's a simple idea of helping pedestrians......

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10gen, the company behind MongoDB, has released version 1.0 of a connector for its open source NoSQL database and Apache Hadoop, the MapReduce framework and distributed computing platform......

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Last month, Verizon announced their HomeFusion broadband Internet service, which provides faster-than-DSL Internet service to a broad swath of rural America. After paying a one time fee of $200 for a device that hangs on the side of your house, you can live anywhere Verizon's LTE cell phone service reaches......

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This week HP announced a menu of public and private cloud services with a dash of consulting and training too. For a company that has changed CEOs twice in two years, perhaps it was a step toward stability (even if it was fulfilling the fired CEO's vision)....

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.0 lets you run and manage both KVM virtual machines and OpenVZ containers using a powerful web interface. Koen reveals all…...

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