Hacker Geohot claims he has a plan to permit PlayStation 3 (PS3) users to continue running Linux on the gaming system, despite Sony's announcement that it will block alternate operating system installs. On Sunday, Sony announced that a 3.21 update due on April 1 will prohibit the installation of alternate installations, due to security concerns.

Open letter to Minister of Communications and Information, An initiative group to support the seven principles to achieve an open eRomania (500 million euro project)

The GWT team has developed something that truly shows off this engine in their port of Quake2 to GWT. Seeing the game run with amazing fps in a browser, with online multiplayer network support via WebSockets, is something to truly behold.

We take a peek at how to create your own plasmoids for the latest KDE desktop, giving you the power to build the perfect active desktop environment.

The delayed Android 2.1 update for the Motorola Droid is starting to tarnish the successful launch of Verizon's first smartphone to run on Google's open source mobile operating system, according to posts at Motorola's Facebook page.

Since Mark Shuttleworth said that moving the Metacity window buttons to the left "opens up the space on the right nicely", lots of button ideas came out. The most controverted one is probably Esfera, an idea which Mark forwarded to the Ayatana mailing list. A recent idea by Izo makes a lot more sense than all the previous ideas. Have a look (it's called "The Workflow Button")...

Ubuntu 10.04 users wishing to play AAC format audio may find themselves out of luck.

ITTIA, a global supplier of embedded lightweight relational database software, demonstrates its database benchmark leadership to application developers of embedded systems and devices, with exceptional results. On an ARM device, ITTIA DB SQL surpasses SQLite, an open source database, in three critical areas: insert, select, and update.