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Here in the District of Columbia, a loosely-knit group comprised of social workers, librarians, technologists, environmentalists, disability rights advocates, and educators has come together in the past few years. This coalition, known as the Broadband Bridge, sees digital justice and digital inclusion as a cornerstone towards self-determination in traditionally underserved communities.

Microsoft's exFAT is a file-system designed for flash drives and is supported on Windows XP and later. The exFAT file-system has been around for a few years, but an open-source version hasn't been quick to come since the Microsoft project is proprietary and encumbered by patents. This weekend, a FUSE-based version of exFAT has reached version 1.0...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales lived in Florida, and that's where the company's data centre has been based for years, but the data centre is now due to move

Last week on the Linux kernel mailing list was a proposal for an Aggressive Low Memory Booster. This is potentially an interesting feature for Linux systems with limited amounts of RAM...

On Sunday was the release of the xf86-video-intel 2.20.19 DDX driver. This is the 19th point release in the long-standing Intel X.Org 2.20 series that's been largely led by Chris Wilson out of Intel OTC...

A New Year, a new Amarok! The Amarok Team is proud to present the new Amarok 2.7, codenamed "A Minor Tune". This version comes with the following brand new major features, developed during last year's Google Summer of Code:

Redmond's low-rent tablet OS was doomed from the start Analysis Industry doomsayers were circling Windows 8 like buzzards before it even launched, but they picked the wrong carcass. Microsoft's real 2012 roadkill was Win8's ARM-powered cousin, Windows RT.…

Here's what it will really cost Say what you will about Windows 8; at least the upgrade from Windows 7 is cheap. Or it is for now. After January 31 will be a different story.…

KDE's Amarok 2.7 music player was released on Friday. This major release to Amarok addresses more than 470 bugs while taking care of 15 feature requests and numerous other ideas to the open-source music player...

The openSUSE developers have released the only scheduled beta for openSUSE 12.3, which includes Linux kernel 3.7.1 and a release candidate of KDE 4.10

The discovery of a remote code execution flaw in the Spring Framework is being reported, but many are not mentioning that the flaw in question was fixed over a year ago and what has been found is actually a new way to exploit that old flaw

Mozilla's Minion project wants to lend a hand to web application developers by launching test attacks on web sites and apps on request

It is still possible to silently install an add-on into Firefox, though it takes a little more work than it did in the days before Firefox 8

The event-driven asynchronous framework for JVM-based languages is likely to be heading to the Eclipse Foundation following the project lead's recommendation of it. The community appears, so far, to agree

The latest version of the cross-platform, Java-based accounting and bookkeeping software Gnuaccounting improves the application's document management and fixes problems with asset management

Everybody loves the Raspberry Pi, and there are so many things it can do, filling an issue with Raspberry Pi goodness should be a piece of cake! To do that, however, we need your help.

Are you a Python programmer who wishes your storage could do more for you? Here's an easy way to add functionality to a real distributed filesystem, in your favorite language.

Courtesy of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center are 13 new Linux micro-benchmarks that have been created based upon the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org. These brand new test profiles provide test coverage of systemd boot performance, timing of various common system tasks, GPU residency times, PowerTop wake-up monitoring, and much more.

Vincent Untz will be speaking at FOSDEM early next month in Brussels to "clarify the directions the GNOME project is taking, and to explain the rationale for various decisions." He's hoping that after this Belgian conference people will better understand the course of the GNOME desktop and begin to rebuild trust in the project...

With we are only about half-way through the development of the Linux 3.8 kernel, there's already exciting features beginning to enter the development spotlight for Linux 3.9. One of the features coming to the Linux 3.9 kernel will be grand changes to the very common "HDA Intel" audio codec drivers...