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In this bi-weekly open gaming roundup, we take a look Unity's open source EditorVR, new graphical chips by ARM, and the Hatchit game engine. Open gaming roundup for October 23-November 5, 2016.

The Apache Calcite data management framework contains many pieces of a typical database management system but omits others, such as storage of data and algorithms to process data. In his talk at the upcoming Apache: Big Data conference in Seville, Spain, Atri Sharma, a Software Engineer for Azure Data Lake at Microsoft, will talk about developing applications using Apache Calcite's advanced query planning capabilities.

Just a few minutes ago, Linus Torvalds announced the availability of the fourth RC (Release Candidate) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 4.9 kernel series.

Mentor Graphics has released a version of Mentor Embedded Linux with expanded support for AMD’s 3rd Gen Embedded G-Series SoCs, featuring Qt Creator. As promised in February when AMD announced its 3rd Gen, dual-core, Embedded G-Series SoCs, Mentor Graphics has updated its free Mentor Embedded Linux Lite Platform and commercial Mentor Embedded Linux MEL distribution […]

In our previous post about Vim, we’ve talked about some neat tips and tricks usable for more advanced users. In this post, we will talk about getting started with Vim, so this guide is mostly intended for absolute beginners.

Linux depends upon administrative user permission. Without the elevated permission of root, many commands could not be run. For distributions, such as Red Hat, gaining root permissions means changing to the root user with the command su. Other distributions, such as Ubuntu Linux, opt for a different route. That route is sudo.

Create new VM centos72vm on VIRTHOST with one VNIC . Set up VNIC via attaching to "overcloud" libvirt sub-net (bridge brovc). No attaching to external 192.168.23.0/24 (br-ext ) sub-net is supposed to be made as was required with non-rout-able 192.0.2.0/24.

Linux Mint is one of the most popular Linux distribution. Mostly advanced Linux users including LinuxAndUbuntu, it is always suggested to start with Linux Mint. So those who are newbies or thinking to use Linux Mint, here is a complete tutorial on how to install Linux Mint from USB and CD/DVD.

dpkg stands for Debian package manager (dpkg). dpkg is a command-line tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. dpkg uses Aptitude (primary and more user-friendly) as a front-end to perform all the actions.

Strings are called what they are because they are strings of characters. It doesn't matter if those characters are letters, numbers, symbols or spaces. They are all taken literally and not processed within a string. That's why strings are sometimes referred to as string literals.

Back in August, the Obama Administration announced a new policy that requires 20 percent of the federal government's software projects be open source. To make all of that material easily accessible, there's now a place for you to view all of the code.

On the third day of November 2016, CodeWeavers, the company behind the popular, yet commercial CrossOver graphical user interface (GUI) to Wine, celebrated a major milestone, running Microsoft Office 2013.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the November 2016 issue.

Hacking standard tripleo-heat-template bellow was performed to avoid hitting "OSDs fewer than Replicas" cluster status.Corresponding template got discovered and updated before running overcloud deployment.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight Linux filesystems, your favorite "old" programming language, running commands at shutdown on Linux, and Perl's new school users and old school history.

After a long break, the developer of the GeckoLinux operating system proudly announced today, November 4, 2016, the general availability of a new set of updated editions of his GeckoLinux Rolling distribution.

The building and nurturing of community is more important to software development than you might think.

The Inforce 6301 COM expands upon the Snapdragon 410 and new 410E, and offers 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, WiFi, BT, and GPS for $85, plus $100 for the carrier. Inforce Computing announced its most affordable “Micro SOM” computer-on-module yet with an $85 Inforce 6301 that runs Android or Linaro’s version of Ubuntu Linux on Qualcomm’s […]

Turn back the dial of time a bit. No, keep turning... a little more... there! Over 25 years ago, when some of your professional colleagues were still toddlers, Bram Moolenaar started working on a text editor for his Amiga. He was a user of vi on Unix, but the Amiga didn't have anything quite like it. On November 2, 1991, after three years in development, he released the first version of the "Vi IMitation" editor, or Vim. read more

LibreOffice already offers a galore of fonts, and users can always download and add more. However, if you want to create your own custom font, you can do it easily by using Glyphr. Glyphr is a new open source vector font designer with an intuitive and easy to use graphical interface and a rich set of features that will take care every aspect of the font design. Although the application is still in early development, it is already pretty good. Here’s a quick guide showing how to design your own custom fonts on Glyphr, and how to add them on LibreOffice once you’re done.