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No degree? No problem. Free software companies value aptitude and community involvement, and apprenticeships offer a leg up

Making a success of Mono as a key element in the free software development stack was always going to be an uphill task, given Mono’s origins as an explicitly Microsoft technology. Mono was a free software implementation of the .NET framework, which the developers, led by Miguel de Icaza, hoped to take to the heart of the free software ecosystem as the tool of choice for the rapid development of applications for GNOME.

Duplicity is an easy-to-use system that allows you to make encrypted backups that are stored at a remote location or even in a locally accessible directory. I t has a good selection of networking back-ends (SFTP, SSH, Google storage, S3 etc), so you should be able to fit it into your organisation. The backups are incremental, which saves on bandwidth and storage space when making subsequent backups. Incremental backups also allow the user to step back to a specific point in time to retrieve an older version of a file.

Can the BeagleBoard’s project latest open-source creation offer competition to the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi?

Pre-release version of Zorin OS 7 Core available for testing, the RC including Linux Kernel 3.8 and an overhauled graphical interface

Google Chrome features shown at I/O 2013 have begun their deployment into the browser, as Google Chrome now comes with better predictions

Mageia 3 has finally been released after a two week delay, fixing the installation bugs of the release candidate, and bringing with it updates and refinements over Mageia 2

The long-awaited Camera for Raspberry Pi is now available from RS Components and Element14

Jon Masters summarises the latest happenings in the Linux kernel community

Learn how to relay the input from a USB keyboard to a Bluetooth-capable device using the Raspberry Pi

A fully functional low-cost single-board computer with dual Gigabit Ethernet and two USB 3.0 ports, is the MiraBox an ARM-based miracle?

Make your own private cloud so you can access your files from any device, including PCs, smartphones and tablets, from anywhere in the world…

Mono was never going to be an easy fit for the Linux desktop. Users didn’t like it, and neither did the developers, and not simply for coding reasons. Richard Hillesley takes a looks at its complicated history

Human beings are still worth cherishing, even if the computer can do it all, argues Simon

We pit six Raspberry Pi operating systems against one another to find out which one is the king of the tiny computer distros

Sabayon 13.04 starts a monthly release cycle of the Gentoo-based distro, and now fully supports UEFI Secure Boot

It’s that time again for a new Ubuntu – should you be raring to go with it, or is it a case of more of the same?

When the Raspberry Pi first came out, the board-only design got a lot of people desiring a case to go with it. Since then, a few companies and Kickstarters have popped up to supply cases to those that want them. With many different designs on the market, it’s hard to know what to go for, and mainly comes down to how you plan to use the case. SB Components have created a simple case that is suitable for many uses, at a price that reflects the Raspberry Pi itself.

The Automotive Grade Linux workgroup aims to get more open source technology in vehicles

Arduinos have grown in popularity over the past few years, to the point where they are ubiquitous. Learn how you can use them from Linux to create a sensor system