A team at Carnegie Mellon University developed The Telepresence Robot Kit (Terk), which offers do-it-yourself robot building recipies using exclusively open source, public domain, and off-the-shelf ingredients. The key component of ... Read More

If you already have a desktop search engine installed on your desktop, you probably appreciate the convenience of quickly finding files or messages that you desperately need, but don't remember ... Read More

MontaVista Software has managed to reduce the response time of its Linux Professional 5.0 real-time operating system (RTOS) to less than 30 microseconds on a busy 2 Gigahertz Pentium system. ... Read More

The latest version of Ubuntu Linux, which has just been released, has been downloaded so heavily that requests have backed up on Canonical's download site and its 160 mirrors. Ubuntu ... Read More

The just released Mandriva Linux 2007 includes all the latest and greatest, starting with the desktop environments KDE 3.5.6, GNOME 2.18, and X.org 7.2, and applications such as Firefox 2.0, ... Read More

KDE comes with a regular expression editor called KRegExpEditor. It allows for writing and editing regular expressions graphically rather than using plain ASCII syntax. Regular expressions are typically used to ... Read More

TransGaming has released the Linux software Cedega version 6.0. Cedega is a windows emulation software designed to run popular Windows games in Linux, such as Dungeon Siege II, Civilization IV, Need ... Read More

Developers have released version 0.45.1 of Inkscape, an advanced tool for creating professional looking graphics. It uses the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format and supports the SVG concepts paths, ... Read More

According to a report by ABI Research the number of Linux based mobile phones being sold annually will increase from currently 8.1 million to 200 million in the year 2012. ... Read More

As the name indicates, Damn Small Linux (DSL) aims to have a small footprint, 50 MB to be precise. This means DSL can run fully in RAM with as little ... Read More

Intel has developed a laptop computer, called ClassMatePC, that has features similar to standard PCs, but is built particularly robustly and comes with a water-resistant keyboard. Mandriva, which has acquired ... Read More

The free and open source office suite OpenOffice had just a major upgrade to version 2.2, which includes improved support for Microsoft spreadsheet file formats and Pivot Tables, better SQL ... Read More