For Lunatics, we need several space vehicles. For a few of them, we have existing free-licensed computer models that we can use, but others are not so easy, or need customizations. The Soyuz launch vehicle is one of these, and it was relatively easy to model, since launch vehicles are geometrically simple (basically a bunch of extruded cylinders and cones).

Ubuntu sponsor Mark Shuttleworth has made clear that rumours circulating in recent days of a special version of Ubuntu Linux for tablets are based on a misunderstanding

Sugar Labs has released Sugar on a Stick version 3.0 and the Sugar Creation Kit, a downloadable DVD image that also includes a library of Sugar Activities and documentation

Pardus is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution sponsored and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. It’s not a perfect Linux distribution, but it works – out of the box.

When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There's no doubt that we need OSI - but we need a better OSI.

The CHAR(10) conference will run from the 2nd to the 3rd of July and look at all aspects of clustering, high availability and replication with PostgreSQL

This tutorial show step-by-step how you can setup your own “Super computer cluster” using Ubuntu MPI Cluster from multiple machines with the goal of brutforcing strong encrypted passwords with John the Ripper for academic purposes.

Ubuntu has come a long way. Now developers need to focus on polishing up this rough gem