Becoming an accomplished sailor isn’t easy, but a group of European sailing enthusiasts have just made the sport a little more accessible for beginners. The ASV Roboat is a solar-powered, Linux-brained sailboat that can sail anywhere and navigate pre-set race courses with no human intervention.

The Roboat is an autonomous robotic sailboat powered by Linux. It's able to autonomously navigate towards any given target without human control or intervention.

"The Free Software Foundation Europe would like to invite you to a workshop as part of the STACS project (FP6-2005-Science-and-Society-19-044597). The STACS project wants to explore the possibility of joint research projects between civil society and public research bodies.

The KDE Research project has undergone a resurgence of interest recently. This is a good thing. Now, however, we have gone back into thumb-twiddling mode and, if you don't mind, I want to steal two minutes of your time to find out what you would expect from the team....

This is the ranger SRV robot ('Satcam Robotic Vehicle') is a rugged robot based on the surveyor open source robot. It can be remote controlled over the internet or programmed for autonomous missions.

Firefox is more than just a browser, it's also a research tool on steroids. Mozilla's Firefox is a pretty good browser. But, thanks to a number of add-ons, it can also be an essential research tool for anyone working online. We look at some of the best add-ons available for improving Firefox's research capabilities.

Over the past couple of weeks I've been involved in a college class on how to write a research report. It's certainly not the easiest class, but it's been informative. Being a geek myself, I chose for my research topic, the ever volatile subject of "The best ways to market Linux" (I'll share the research report when I'm done with it).

Back in May I wrote an article titled Linux To Regain 50% Netbook Market Share after such predictions were made by Stephen Lim of Linpus Technologies and ABI Research. ABI Research published some new data last month and the results may surprise you.

I'm planning to acquire a small, ultra-lightweight, low-cost, and Linux-powered subnotebook before the end of the year. So, I began doing some research (used Google), and started my quest to find the perfect netbook.Of the many netbooks currently available, and also those that are soon to be released, I only have 3 favorites.