Six years ago, Raspberry Pi set out to reignite programming in schools with a cheap, compact computing platform. Despite targeting students, his foundation's $35 computer captured the imaginations of tinkers worldwide, resulting in overwhelming demand.

Along with a hands-on review of the Pi, today we'll be covering basic steps for setting up the computer and other elemental post-installation tasks to get you up and running with applications. In other words, this should serve as a starting point no matter what you want to do with your Raspberry Pi.

In what will certainly be controversial and disappointing to some Radeon Linux desktop users, AMD will soon announce that they will effectively be discontinuing support for several Radeon product families from their proprietary Catalyst driver. After that point...

The Linux Foundation discovered security breaches late last week on servers hosting Linux.com and LinuxFoundation.org websites and other Linux related sub-domains. The attacks are believed to be related to the Kernel.org breaches...

Adobe has announced a beta release of Flash Player 11. You can download it directly for Windows, Mac, and Linux. At the same time, the company has announced the availability of the Adobe AIR 3 beta. Last month, Adobe killed AIR for Linux and announced it would focus on mobile instead.