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In today's open source roundup: Valve removes the SteamOS icon from some Linux games. Plus: How to make the Steam Controller work in Linux. And is the Alienware Steam Machine worth buying?

KDE Plasma has received some harsh criticism last week, and a good part of the community has chimed in although, from the looks of it, not all of the criticism was well deserved. A prominent KDE developer wrote a lengthy article explaining why KDE Plasma is considered stable and why the community has some problems with it.

Pedro Dias Vicente is a senior XDA member, and he works really hard these days to bring Ubuntu for phones to that huge 6.4" mobile device a.k.a. phablet, which many of you apparently own and want Ubuntu on it.

The speed of your internet connection is something that is affected by a lot of different elements, most of which are out of your reach and/or jurisdiction. That said, there isn't a way to transform a slow internet connection into a lighting-speed one if your provider is just not giving you enough bandwidth, no matter what you do.

Like most things these days, modern atmospheric science is all about big data.

My recent post about how quickly newly commissioned Linux systems can be attacked and possibly compromised led to a bunch of e-mail queries about resources which explain how to lock down a variety of Linux distributions.

Apache HTTP Server, the open source web server with leading market share, now supports HTTP/2. The support brings encryption enhancements and speed improvements to web users.

The Nintendo Entertainment System or NES is one of the most famous video game console ever made, and it just turned 30. Why are we celebrating NES 30 years later? The answer is simple; because it's still relevant.

CompuLab announced a module based on TI’s new Cortex-A15 based Sitara AM57x SoC, with options for onboard wireless, 32GB flash, and -40 to 85°C operation.

Ahead of Oracle's OpenWorld conference in 2013, the company first began to talk about a major new release of its open-source MySQL database. Now two years later, development on MySQL 5.7 is compete and general availability is set for October 26.

This is a step by step guide showing how to install Ubuntu on Windows 10 using Virtualbox, including the Guest Additions.

The Linux Foundation recently put up a funny video showing what life might be like without Web search. It's tagline was "A world without Linux is hard to imagine." It also added, "A world without Linux would mean a world without the Internet."

The Werewolf is coming soon. Robolinux has been making a name for itself as a slick Linux distro for those looking to run a virtual machine.

This July, the OpenStack community celebrated five years of open cloud collaboration. It's now a global community of more than 500 organizations and 30,000 individual members across 166 countries. OpenStack has nearly four million lines of code and powers the clouds of some of world's largest brands, including AT&T, Disney, PayPal, and Walmart. read more

Here we have "GALPon minino" another Linux distribution that is based on Debian and designed for computers older than 10 years or more. The distro comes with LXDE Desktop Environment and a set of applications that fulfills the day-to-day needs of the users without slowing down the machine.

At the request of our readers, we've created the following tutorial to teach all Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) users how to upgrade their installations to the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project, in this special Liberty-release edition of our weekly OpenStack news. read more

Valve is reportedly removing games from its store which claim to work for Linux but dont actually work on the Steam OS Platform.

Sam Aaron is a live coder who considers programming a performance. He created Sonic Pi, an open source live coding synthesizer that lets people use code to compose and perform in classical and contemporary styles ranging from canons to dubstep. By day, Aaron works as a research associate at the University of Cambridge. By night, he codes music for people to dance to. read more

Another week has passed for the Solus team, and they've made just a small number of updates. It looks like things are calming down, and we might start to get anxious once more about a possible stable launch.