Users who have bought Nokia's flagship smartphone, the Maemo-based N900, won't be able to upgrade the device to MeeGo, Nokia said in a blog post. The MeeGo OS, merges Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo Linux-based operating systems.

Two exhibitors at the event last weekend showed off open source 3D printers that can build objects based on your instructions, another one introduced 3D design software.

Last week NVIDIA released their first 256.xx proprietary beta Linux display driver that brought many VDPAU improvements, installer improvements, support for new GLX extensions, various bug-fixes, and other enhancements. However,

Of all the commands available in the Linux command-line, one of the most under-appreciated is "alias". It's not just useful, it can make using the CLI less of a chore, and even improve efficiency. In this article, we're taking a look at what it is, and provide numerous examples of how to use it to become a true CLI power user.

Firefox parent company Mozilla Corp. has hired Tantek Çelik, a well-known figure in the developer and open-Web community, for the role of Web standards lead.

Apache iBATIS creator Clinton Begin has announced that his data mapper framework will be forked and its entire core development team will move to using Google Code project hosting

Postgres and Ingres co-founder Mike Stonebraker is positioning his new database management system as a relational alternative to NoSQL databases

QISOBurn is a GTK/Qt-based Linux GUI for burning image files into CD/DVD disks using growisofs from dvd+rw-tools. It was specially conceived to burn console game disk backups, specially Xbox360, since it allows a persistent layer-break setting.