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Knights and Merchants was originally a LinuxGamePublishing (RIP) title, and sadly the port source code must have gone with it. Topware Interactive now have a Linux beta available on Steam that uses Wine.

The third maintenance release of the stable 2.7 series of the Git open-source distributed revision control system has been announced for all supported platforms.

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

Dell now announces that its entire Precision mobile workstation series comes with Ubuntu preinstalled.

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

Recurring revenue company Aria Systems has announced new funding for IoT products, another sign that the channel can start taking IoT seriously.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is set to remove support for AMD’s Catalyst Linux driver, known as fglrx, when the operating system update releases next month. The new hybrid AMDGPU driver should be a great replacement—but it isn’t completely ready yet and isn’t compatible with older graphics hardware. The fglrx driver will be removed when you upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, if you’re using it.

Two big open source conferences are coming up next week, while this week an automaker said it doesn't have to pay attention to the GPL and the man credited with inventing email passed.

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.

Opera introducing a new feature to its desktop web browser will improve the web browsing experience for many users. A new native Ad-blocking integration comes with the development release of Opera desktop web browser.

The popular Calibre eBook reader and converter software sees yet another maintenance release, version 2.53, which brings in a bunch of new features and several other improvements.

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.

We are happy to announce our twelfth update of Manjaro 15.12 (Capella)! This update includes an important OpenSSL update (including many packages which depend on it), kernels updated, GTK2, cryptsetup as well as the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, Chromium and Wine.

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

Microsoft and the GNU/Linux and open source world may seem to be at peace, but deep tensions persist between Linux fans and the closed-source company.

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

The free security certificate effort backed by the Linux Foundation achieves a major milestone with one million free certificates, but are all those free users actually secure?

The Obama administration is seeking public comments on its open source policy.