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I will give Google credit, their propaganda hype machine is starting to rival that of Apple Inc. I’ve had the Nexus 7 for two and half days now and I must say I am far from impressed.

I recently had some time to become intimate with everything Chromebox. Powerbase contributor Sean Catlin was nice enough to surrender the device to me for a while so that I could figure out the absolute best way to rail on it in the span of 2500 words or so. I’m joking, actually. My intention was...

In a not-so-surprising turn of events, Microsoft has fessed up to the now infamous ’0xB16B00B5? (Big Boobs) string of hex that was supplanted into the Linux kernel.

By now you’ve probably heard of OUYA, the wide-open console platform that aims to bring both AAA and Indie titles to your TV. When we caught wind of OUYA early this week, they were just eclipsing the hump of half of their goal, $950k

My work takes me in and out of busy offices all day long. I see Macs, I see PCs, I see servers and printers. I see PCs running Windows which is no surprise, but what I never see are PCs running Linux. “Why is this?” I always ask myself...

With the recent news that Mozilla will no longer be innovating with new versions of Thunderbird, many Ubuntu users might be left wondering what this will mean for their favorite distribution’s default suite of software. In fact, it seems like Canonical has had it’s hands full over...

There has been a long standing belief (or perhaps more accurately, fear), that developers who chose to release the source code for their software under a free and open license can’t turn their project into a viable source of income.

A happy bit of news today from Android developer Jean-Baptiste Queru, the CDMA variant of the Nexus S (more commonly known as the Nexus S 4G) has officially been reinstated as fully supported by the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

Vladimir Serbinenko announced today on the gnu mailing list the official release of Grub 2.00. Grub is arguably the best piece of software in the world for managing several operating systems at boot time...

The Nexus 7 has been unveiled today to much fanfare. 2 years after the first mainstream Android tablet devices were introduced, Google has finally decided to make an official foray into a segment that is already populated by its immensely popular mobile operating system.

Ever since the first time I read the blog post “Painless Threading” over on the Android Developers blog I have used AsyncTasks quite often in my code. Just about any time I have an operation that might slow down the user interface I just throw together an AsyncTask and have it run in the background. The class is extremely easy to use.

When I first got into IT back in the late 90?s as a teen, I was always baffled by the landscape in regards to infrastructure and software. And coming from a Linux background, who could blame me? When I went off to get my secondary education, I chose the vocational route and I chose to certify in Novell and Microsoft because they were the two major players at the time.

Sean Catlin is at Google I/O for The Powerbase, and he is taking requests! Want to get a first glimpse at the Nexus 7? Let us know in the comments. We can hardly contain our excitement!

We all know now that Steam is really coming to Linux. According to Gabe Newell, you can expect it this year. The ‘Steam-engine’ picked up additional locomotion yesterday when it brought developer David White on board. This is of course after being influenced my Michael Larabel, founder of Phoronix.

Today, Introversion Software has announced the immediate availability of “Uplink” for iOS devices, with an Android build coming soon. When it debuted in 2001, ”Uplink” was Introversion Software’s first commercial release and garnered the critical and financial success that put Introversion on the map as one of the best independent game developers in the industry.

Amarok has some excited new features to showcase. Come check 'em out!

With increasingly powerful Android smartphones and tablets, and the vast usability enhancements Android itself has gotten through its various incarnations, it’s increasingly likely that your day to day computer use can be reduced or eliminated by using your mobile device.

Bryan Lunduke announced on his blog today the imminent forthcomence of the Lunduke OS, a custom appliance built with Suse Studio. This appliance will make available all the tools necessary to develop for, and tinker with, the Lunduke Suite.

Unfortunately, what should have been good news turned out to be little more than a PR stunt. Rather than actually open sourcing his applications, Lunduke decided to hold the source code hostage: demanding users sign up for a repeating monthly subscription to enable him to continue developing his software under an open source license.

Halo fans probably know this better than anyone, but for those of you who are in the dark, this is for you. The Marathon Trilogy was a suite of first-person shooters developed for the classic Macintosh in the mid-90s by Bungie Software.