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Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Ink scripting language and Atomic Game Engine going open source, GameWorks SDK 3.1 released by NVIDIA, and new games out for Linux.  Open gaming roundup for March 12 - 18, 2016 read more

All Robolinux Raptor 8.4 editions are based on 100% rock-solid current Debian 8 stable source code running the newest 3.16 Linux kernel plus over 180 important upstream security and application updates. We also included the newest Firefox 45 and Thunderbird 38.7, Tor Browser, VirtualBox and replaced all of our 32-bit end-of-life Google Chrome with Chromium. As usual all four of the upgraded 32-bit and 64-bit Robolinux editions are loaded with many popular user applications, such as I2P, many popular multimedia programs, Kazam screencaster, Google Chrome, Google Earth, Skype, VirtualBox.

DIRB is a Web Content Scanner AKA a domain brute-forcing tool. It looks for existing (and/or hidden) Web Objects, it works by launching a dictionary based attack against a web server and analysing the responses.

We reported this as a rumor last month, but now it is official, and the packages needed to move the Unity Launcher of Ubuntu 16.04 to the bottom of the screen have finally landed in the repos.

Data Modul’s Linux-ready “eDM-COMB-BW6” COM Express Basic Type 6 module supports Intel Core and Xeon CPUs in Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell flavors. The eDM-COMB-BW6 supports an unusually wide range of Intel processors, starting on the high end with Intel’s latest 14nm-fabricated 6th Generation Core “Skylake” processors.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at open source news from Google and Microsoft, the US publishes a draft of new source code policy, and more. Open source news roundup for March 12 - 18, 2016 read more

Almost 300 million phones running Google's Android operating system are vulnerable to a newly developed drive-by attack that can install malware and take control of key operations, a security firm has warned.

A proof-of-concept exploit dubbed Metaphor works against Android versions 2.2 through 4.0 and 5.0 and 5.1, which together are estimated to run 275 million phones, researchers from Israeli security firm NorthBit said. It attacks the same Stagefright media library that made an estimated 950 million Android phones susceptible to similar code-execution attacks last year.

Pretty great performance there. It's really pleasing to see that Virtual Programming's eON wrapper technology mature to this state for some.

This week we heard news of a tax incentive program I can get behind: How about a tax break for the developers of open source software? It seems that a couple of state senators from the Empire State want to do exactly that. Senate Bill S161, sponsored by Senator Daniel Squadron (D-26th) and co-sponsored by Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (D-36th), provides a maximum $200 tax credit for taxpayer expenses associated with the development of open source and free software licensed programs.

Many of us are familiar with the package managers in our desktops, such as dnf, apt, yum, and many others. An important part of these package managers is that they are able to find dependencies of software you are trying... Continue Reading →

Adlink has launched a “AmITX-SL-G” Mini-ITX SBC based on 6th Gen Intel CPUs, with multiple SATA, GbE, and video ports, plus PCIe and Mini-PCIe expansion. Adlink is one of the last of the major embedded firms to announce an embedded Mini-ITX board based on the Intel’s 14nm fabricated 6th Generation Core (Skylake) processors, following Congatec’s […]

It's still early for Mitaka though the next month will be a very busy one as the release hardens. The final OpenStack Mitaka release is currently set for the week of April 4.

Allows devs to claw back a few bucks for donating code A New York state senator says open-source programmers should be able to claim back part of their costs for writing free software.…

In the largest developer survey to date, Stack Overflow's programmer community reveal what tools and platforms they use in their daily work.

On March 7, the FCC slapped a $1.35 million fine on Verizon in a privacy case, a move that’s being hailed as a victory by some privacy advocates. If so, it would seem to me to be a hollow victory. For starters, the fine is too low to be much of a deterrent against a company which last year had income of over $63 billion. But there is much more wrong with the agreement the carrier reached with the FCC than merely the price tag.

Two long and low quality videos from GDC are now up with Vulkan as the subject, all very interesting with Oxide Games (Ashes of the Singularity) and Valve speaking. I've done some highlights for you.

Q. How can I check if my server is running on a 64 bit processor and running 64 bit OS or 32 bit operating system?

In a world of PCs dominated by Windows and Macs, Dell's line of "Project Sputnik" laptops with Ubuntu Linux have secured a cult following.

From the Slackware changelog:

Thu Mar 17 22:09:16 UTC 2016 Good hello, let's call this Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1.

Need to learn about the basics of cloud computing? The Linux Foundation and edX have a class just for you.