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Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the Wine 1.8 release, a chance to win a Steam Machine from Feral Interactive, SuperTux's first stable release in a decade, and more. Open gaming roundup for December 19 - 25, 2015 read more

What do I think? For one thing, I think if Canonical does have that many users and if they could get each to send them just 25 cents, they’d have a quarter of a billion dollars. I also think that just a little over a year ago, this same company claimed there were 25 million Ubuntu users worldwide spanning 240 countries. That sounded good until tech media pundits pointed out that the United Nations estimated there were only 196 countries in the world at that time.

Without some help, the world of OpenStack can be an intimidating space. It seems as if there's always something new to learn, and the corpus grows larger every day. So what's a cloud administrator to do? read more

The Ubuntu developers are finally working on a new feature called Aethercast for Ubuntu phones, which is a way to connect to the Miracast protocol.

This step by step tutorial will show you how to install Zen Cart with Nginx on a Debian 8 VPS. Zen Cart is an open source PHP based shopping cart software. This tutorial was tested and written for a Debian 8 VPS, but it should work on any Debian based Linux distribution.

On Christmas Eve, Arjen Balfoort from the SolydXK project announced the immediate availability for download of new builds for the SolydX and SolydK GNU/Linux distributions.

This year has been another great one for open science. At Opensource.com we published several great stories about open science projects that are changing the way we research, collaborate, and solve problems.

The Wine developers have just revealed the new 1.9 development version of the Wine is now available for download, marking the launch of a new branch.

Just as well Azure and Office 365 are growing The last twelve months have been pivotal for Microsoft, the company which once promised to put a PC on every desk but now settles for a vague mission statement about “achieve more”.…

Manjaro 15.12 “Capella” KDE Edition is the latest version of Manjaro Linux built in with KDE Plasma 5.5 as default desktop, has been released by Manjaro Development Team and it now available for download and install on your computer

It has been a while since we've seen any interesting system-wide changes proposed for the upcoming Fedora 24 Linux operating system, but today we can report that the OS will switch to GCC 6 by default.

Congatec announced a “Conga-TS170” COM Express Basic module series based on Intel’s 6th Gen (“Skylake”) Core and Xeon processors, and aimed at high performance “server class” apps. Congatec is introducing a series of COM Express Type 6 Basic modules that are available with a selection of Intel’s 14nm 6th Generation Core (“Skylake”) processors, as well […]

Over a year ago now, I went looking for the best plugins to turn Vim into a full-fledged IDE. Interestingly, a lot of the comments on that post were about how Emacs already has most of these plugins built in, and was already a great IDE. Although I can only agree about Emacs' incredible versatility, […]Continue reading...

The developers behind darktable were very proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of darktable 2.0.

For this poll we focused on the Raspberry Pi. We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of you who read The Raspberry Pi Report, so we thought we’d see just how far into the Raspberry Pi phenomena you dwell. We wondered how many of you already own a Pi, how many are thinking of getting one to tinker with, and how many of you just plain aren’t interested. We were also wondering how many of you might be influenced by the super low $5 price of the recently released Pi Zero.

2015 started with an impressive showing of Linux at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). And now the year is closing, having delivered some great Linux-powered devices. Here are the 9 that I found most exciting.

A new and refreshed Ubuntu MATE 15.10.1 image has been released for the Raspberry Pi 2 platform, bringing a number of changes and improvements.

Mozilla's promise is that of user choice and respect for user privacy. It's a promise Mozilla is likely to keep in 2016 and beyond.

The Arrow Electronics SF2+ Development Kit, which targets security camera, communications, connected home, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, is unusual in that it pairs the stripped down uClinux and U-boot with a Microsemi SmartFusion2 (SF2) SoC.

Manjaro Linux developer Bernhard Landauer was very proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of the first stable version of the Manjaro Linux Deepin Edition.