Simon is a sophisticated speech recognition tool with easy access to two powerful speech recognition engines, Julius and CMU Sphinx.

As someone who writes about Linux and open source software for a living, I have tools and tricks that are essential for my daily computing. In this installment of the Workspace feature, I share my personal favorites with you.

in addition to its comprehensive tool set, Libreoffice packs a built-in Basic-like scripting language that can be used to automate repetitive tasks and extend the suite’s default functionality.

Defragfs optimizes files on a system, allowing videos to load faster and large archives to open in the blink of an eye.

How does the latest Windows work in a virtual machine? We tried out Windows 8 as a guest system in vMware Workstation and virtualBox on Linux.

• Linux Foundation reports Secure Boot solution
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Plasma Active 3
• Android OS Tops
• Linaro Enterprise
• Group formed for ARM architecture
• Android installed on 3 of 4 smartphones

Red Hat peps up performance of multimedia applications on remote desktops with SPICE (Simple Protocol For Independent Computing Environments).

Insert recurring phrases and automate recurring tasks with AutoKey, independently of the application you are using.