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Valve is on fire and has released a new update for the Steam Beta client, continuing to fix some issues with the Steam controller and with the In-Home Streaming function.

Unfortunately, and after years of development in every part of the free software that we enjoy, there are still two primary types of software package available in GNU/Linux systems. The one is the .deb type which is used by Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, Mint, and Elementary, and the other is the .rpm type which is used by Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, and CentOS. Fortunately, there's a workaround for this as we can try to transform the one type to the other.

Will help catalogue attempts to limit information. After a three-year campaign, the IETF has cleared the way for a new HTTP status code to reflect online censorship.

The results are in! The Fedora Elections for the F23 release cycle of FESCo, FAmSCo, and the Council concluded on Tuesday, December 15th. The results are posted on the Fedora Voting Application and announced on the mailing lists.

When the folks who make the Raspberry Pi made good on their plan to release a multi-core version of the tiny computer with 1GB of RAM earlier this year, I saw it as the perfect opportunity to put the single-board Linux box to work in our company's network operations center.

Commell’s Linux friendly “QE-E71” COM appears to be the first Intel Core based Qseven module. It supports both 4th Gen Haswell and 5th Gen Broadwell CPUs.

2015 was another great year for open source technologies and communities. Before we close this chapter and look to 2016 for what's next, let's take stock of how many open source projects readers contributed to this year. Whether you contributed as a software developer, designer, bug tester, documentation writer, community booster, or other part of a team, your contributions matter.

Governments will not always be able to disguise which content they restrict across the Web thanks to a new error code which will warn users of content restricted through censorship.

AWS IoT, Amazon's cloud service for Internet of Things connected devices, has entered general availability.

The Linux world changed a lot in 2015. Will the momentum continue?

The pool of people participating in open source communities still lacks diversity, but the good news is that many people, projects, and organizations are working to improve it. I've collected a few highlights from 2015 efforts to increase diversity in open source communities. Which 2015 diversity in open source stories would you add to the list? Let us know in the comments. read more

The Finish company Jolla has managed to remain in business after a successful financing round, giving hopes to the users that we might yet see new Jolla products in the future.

In today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Arch Linux. Plus: SuperTux 0.4.0 has been released. And how to hack Linux with the backspace key.

The Budgie operating system has some pretty awesome theming features that are not usually found in other distros, as shown in a recent video posted by the developers.

Not-for-profit open source group The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaborative effort that aims to advance the Blockchain, the technology that powers Bitcoin.

Karanbir Singh from the CentOS team announced the general availability of the CentOS 7 Linux operating system for the ARM hardware architecture.

Immediately after LibreOffice 5.0.4 was released, the developers have already posted information about the first RC for LibreOffice 5.1.0, which is now also available for download and testing.

Alpine Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and Busybox that’s oriented towards security and less on the overall user experience. A new version has been released and is now ready for download.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install Tine 2.0 on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB. Tine 2.0 is an open source groupware and customer relationship management (CRM) application.

Canonical is going to host its first live convention, UbuCon, in just a month. We’re saying first because it’s been a really long time since the previous one.