Robert Frosts's classic poem, The Road Not Taken, concludes with the line "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." If you're a ...

Having learnt his writing techniques reading e-Books of Sherlock Holmes, Brian now spends his time /kicking, lurking, SSHing and encoding. The popular, open-source media player firmware Rockbox has ...

Rockbox has been chugging along for years offering an open source firmware replacement for MP3 players. But how relevant is a firmware replacement for a type of device that's slowly going extinct?

LWN readers are familiar with Rockbox; this project (which has developed free firmware for a number of digital audio players) has been mentioned here several times, and was reviewed in detail last ...