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Learn how to create a powerful multi-network hardware firewall with little more than pfSense and a redundant computer

300 Beta testers will get their hands on Valve’s prototype Steam Box, with other hardware partners making a variety of Steam Machines for customers. All expected in 2014

Dual licensing relies on ownership rights that inevitably come into conflict with the nature of open source. Richard Hillesley investigates…

MongoDB is an open source document- oriented database system written in C++ by Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. It runs on UNIX machines as well as Windows and supports replication and sharding (aka horizontal partitioning) – the process of separating a single database across a cluster of machines.

Intel’s answer to the Raspberry Pi is here – but at nearly six times the price, can it tempt buyers back to x86?

Audacity, the open source audio editing powerhouse, has received a small update with some great new features

One of the best ways to test your security is to try to tear it apart, and you can do just that with Kali Linux…

Although the latest XBMC 13 release is an alpha version, it has a couple of important features that will make its way into the next version, such as 3D support

Individual elements of KDE are being split off into different development cycles, and KDE Workspaces 4.11 will make way for the (temporarily named) Plasma Workspaces 2

The OpenELEC 3.2 development series continues, this time with some serious Raspberry Pi updates from XBMC Gotham

When health care is struggling to meet demand, open source innovation could improve service and save money…

Often we see or hear of people running out of disk space on their Linux systems and resorting to resizing tools or worse. Linux has the ability to extend (or shrink) logical partitions across spare space or even across additional disks.

Jon Masters describes some of the features coming in Linux 3.10, and summarises the past month of activity in the Linux kernel community

SCO’s action against IBM and others failed, but reflects a fashion in the technology industries – not restricted to SCO – for replacing innovation and business with teams of lawyers and threats of litigation, says Richard Hillesley

Is it really possible to build an entire OS from an icon set? The answer, it seems, is elementary

Samba began life as ‘a bit of a hack’ and became the route for taking free software into the enterprise. Richard Hillesley tells the story…

Take control of your Raspberry Pi from your smartphone, tablet or PC, from anywhere in the world

With only nine days to go now, the Raprio Kickstarter has been a huge success. Thanks to notoriety from the Raspberry Pi foundation, and many open source blogs talking about it, the Raspberry Pi powered robot has over 300% of its funding already.

Win one of three Nexus 4s running Ubuntu Touch by porting or creating original apps in the new Ubuntu SDK for mobile

Easy set-up SD card for novice users now offered with any new Raspberry Pi purchase for $5 on an 8 GB SD card