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Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at MAME going open source after 19 years, SteamOS update 2.64 released, Rocket League due on SteamOS and Linux, and new games out for Linux.

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each.

Create a Twitter stream for Django-powered websites using the API and a bit of code

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we highlight The Opportunity launched by The White House, a call for public comment on a draft of Federal Source Code policy, the new Open Data Button, and more. Open source news roundup for March 5 - 11, 2016 read more

In this part, we will start using Docker images and create containers in a practical way. In other words, we will create a web-based, advanced personal notepad that runs on top of DokuWiki or WordPress. You can choose whichever you are comfortable with.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are more frequent, bigger and more damaging than ever before a new report by internet security firm Verisign has warned.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight open source alternatives to Google's Picasa for organizing your photos, a cutting-edge math tool for the classroom called SageMath, ownCloud's collaboration with CERN and AARNET to reach it's next milestone, and a two-part series that examines SourceForge Media's recent past and future plans and the considerations ownCloud CEO Frank Karlitschek had to make when selling his first startup. read more

96Boards.org’s SBC specs gained two SBCs this week: the Consumer Edition-style uCRobotics “Bubblegum-96,” and the Enterprise Edition-style “LeMaker Cello.” Prior to the Linaro Connect Bangkok event this week, two SBCs broke cover that comply with Linaro’s 96Boards spec for open source, ARM-based Linux and Android boards. The Bubblegum-96 is a Consumer Edition (CE) SBC that […]

Web APIs have become ubiquitous in the industry, but many organizations are struggling to create platforms that are attractive and engaging to developers. Creating an API that developers want to use is not a simple task—it requires mindful planning and implementation, as well as some careful thinking about communication with the client developers. Additionally, the API needs to be designed with the developers in mind—developer experience is the first priority. read more

We get a lot of rain in the Pacific Northwest, especially in the winter. But temperatures are also pretty mild, which gives us plenty of opportunity to get outside. Once we're outside—provided that we're paying attention—we can see and hear much of nature's subtle beauty that is too easy to miss while running errands or commuting. For example, we northwesterners often see drops of water clinging to branches and glowing as they refract the light. read more

In the course of my job at Red Hat, I work with a lot of servers. Many of them are a mix of reproducers for customer environments and production boxes. Some of these are dedicated boxes, but there are also plenty of virtual... Continue Reading →

Augment your home by adding your own smart infrastructure to control it, all custom-coded and controlled by your Raspberry Pi

There are perhaps six known historic flaws in SecureROM that have enabled jailbreakers to bypass the signature check in one way or another. These bugs are particularly appealing to jailbreakers, because SecureROM is baked into hardware, and so the bugs cannot be fixed once they are in the wild: Apple has to update the hardware to address them. Exploitable bugs have been found in the way SecureROM loads the image, verifies the signature, and communicates over USB, and in all cases they have enabled devices to boot unsigned firmware.

Advantech’s “SOM6868” is a Linux-friendly COM Express Compact Type 6 module supporting Intel’s Atom X5-E8000 and related Pentium and Celeron Braswell chips. The embedded-oriented, 14nm fabricated Intel Atom X5-E8000 system-on-chip debuted last month in a variety of Congatec boards. The Qseven based computer-on-module (Conga-QA4), COM Express Compact Type 6 module (Conga-TCA4), COM Express Type 10 […]

Free licensing offer if you convert from Big Red. Pic In an aggressive move, Microsoft has told Oracle customers: migrate to SQL Server 2016 and Redmond with give you free licensing for the lifetime of the product plus technical support.

MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL and aims to be an enhanced, drop-in replacement for it. The following tutorial will guide you through the steps to install MariaDB 10.0 on CentOS 6.

Since the release of the Linux Steam client, Linux gamers have had a greater range of choice. Today, more than 1,900 games are available for download, with another 100 on their way. This compares well with OS X, which currently sports 2,900 downloadable titles.

Last month, D Ruth Bavousett wrote about creating sheet music with the Lilypond "music engraving program," and it got me thinking about MuseScore—which she also mentioned in the article, but in passing—and what a powerful tool it is for musical notation. Therefore, in an a continuation of an unofficial musical notation series, I present to you MuseScore, the open source WYSIWYG sheet music creation suite. read more

Attention, Android programmers: Your latest version of Android is ready to start working on.

If there is one area in which open source has never suffered it is a lack of events. From your big professional conferences right down to your friendly, local meetups, there is just something so delightfully fun about getting together in person to share ideas, learn from each other, and have fun. One of the most popular types of event are unconferences, and there are more and more of them cropping up all over the world. read more