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If you've been in the market for a portable computer, you may very well have considered buying a Chromebook.

In many scientific disciplines, the research you may be doing is completely new.

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From the release number, you can probably guess that it is based on Ubuntu Desktop 13.04. But what you cannot guess from the name or release number is that it ships with its own desktop environment called HY-D-V1. It also makes it super easy to test-drive other desktop environments from the same installation, without ever rebooting the computer or ... (more)

A new version of Python library Kivy has been released with an Android Emulator and innovations for organizing widgets and addons.

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A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, it's easiest to use Azure Web Sites.

So Psychsoftpc is now offering consumers a choice of which Windows Version they want installed on their machines, Windows 7 or Windows 8. If they prefer Linux, Psychsoftpc offers a choice of Debian, SUSE or Ubuntu.

NextStep4it has a nice little tutorial on setting up a local CentOS yum mirror using reposync.

I'm sure many of you have heard the term LAMP before A- standing for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP.

On March 15, 2013, ComputerWeekly.com, the "leading provider of news, analysis, opinion, information and services for the UK IT community" published an article by Bryan Glick entitled: Government mandates 'preference' for open source .

The third official release of, the popular Mandriva fork, Mageia is now available.

BMO Capital Market's Keirstead noted some industry concerns that growth expectations maybe be too high for companies adopting Linux.

But if you're determined to donate your time and talents, there are some things you can do to get off on the right foot.

We've talked a lot about running multiple operating systems on the same computer-whether it's Windows and Linux , Windows and OS X , or something else -but what happens when it's time to get rid of one? Here's how to delete Windows or Linux from your system after you've dual-booted them.

There's a reason why enterprise companies "get" Linux and open source. It's not just because of the security and reliability - it's for the software.

This does exactly the same thing to prevent code execution on a per memory page basis.

The Arduino Yun has been unveiled as the first of a family of wifi products that combine Arduino with Linux by using a system on a chip running Linino, a customized version of OpenWRT.

It uses KVM and supports Debian and CentOS Linux running on Google platform. Google Compute Engine offers a RESTful API for managing resources such as disk, images, and instances.

Pyocr is an optical character recognition tool wrapper for python. That is, it helps using OCR tools from Python.