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Since Valve started publicly talking about its own Linux-powered "Steam Boxes" about three years ago now, we've wondered what kind of effect a new gaming-focused OS would have on overall PC gaming performance. On the one hand, Valve said back in 2012 that it was able to get substantial performance increases on an OpenGL-powered Linux port of Left 4 Dead 2. On the other hand, developers I talked to about SteamOS development earlier this year told me that the state of Linux's drivers, OpenGL tools, and game engines often made it hard to get Windows-level performance on SteamOS, especially if a game was built with DirectX in mind in the first place.

Most users don't know if there are vulnerable components inside of containers; Clair will help solve part of that challenge.

In recent years, we've seen a boost in popularity of community-driven projects. Software and hardware development, social activities, crowdsourcing, manufacture, education—thousands of communities are growing and striving to achieve their goals. Creating a new community can be a difficult task, so the tools used in the process are very important. read more

In today's open source roundup: Spice up your Chromebook with beautiful art via a new Chrome OS app. Plus: Calibre 2.44 released. And the 6 best Android emulators for your PC.

Football Manager 2016, the latest installment of the most complex football simulator developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega, has been released today for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

On Wednesday, Motherboard posted a court document filed in a prosecution against a Silk Road 2.0 user indicating that the user had been de-anonymized on the Tor network thanks to research conducted by a "university-based research institute."

DNS server Setup using Bind9 on Ubuntu 15.10 Server.

Why worry about the desktop when you've conquered everything else?

Amazon AWS security credentials are used to authenticate you and authorize any third-party application to access your AWS account. There are different types of AWS security credentials available, e.g., password, access key, multi-factor authentication, X.509 certificates, etc.

Do you like to use Bitcoin on Linux? This tutorial explains how to install and use Bitcoin Core on Debian Linux. Bitcoin Core is the official Bitcoin Wallet from bitcoin.org. I will use the latest version from the GIT repository at bitcoin.org.

In this weekly top 5, we highlight the open development method for business, Unity and the GNOME Shell, lossless audio for Linux, FireFox's 11th birthday, and top open source terminal emulators. Top 5 articles of the week.

Mikroprojekt’s Linux-based “Kondor AX” development board for IoT gateways and small basestations combines a Lattice ECP5 FPGA with an i.MX6 Solo SoC.

In the era of mobile and cloud, we are becoming consumers of our own data and the companies whose services we use are becoming the owners. These five technologies or projects are game changers because they ensure that we remain in charge of our digital lives.

Freedom and privacy go hand in hand. In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to worry about who was looking over our shoulders. None of us would have anything to hide, and we would have ulterior motives. As citizens of the real world though, we have to take measures to protect ourselves.

The border between the mobile and the desktop Ubuntu platforms is getting blurry, and distinguishing which is which is now difficult, judging by a simple image. Convergence is happening, and it will be here much faster than people imagine.

This upcoming weekend, a group of Fedora developers are convening for the Python 3 Fedora Activity Day (FAD) to make more progress on porting Python 2 packages to Python 3. If you want to lend a hand, jump into the #fedora-python... Continue Reading →

Almost all supercomputers run on Linux. Now, the Linux Foundation, along with high-performance computer industry leaders, are announcing a new open-source software framework for HPC environments.

At ARM TechCon this week, ARM unveiled its most power-efficient 64-bit processor to date: the ARMv8-A based “Cortex-A35,” aimed at mobile and embedded apps.

Almost all supercomputers run on Linux. Now, the Linux Foundation, along with high-performance computer industry leaders, are announcing a new open-source software framework for HPC environments.

The Cinnamon 2.8.3 and 2.8.4 maintenance releases have been published this week on the official GitHub page of the acclaimed open-source desktop environment used in numerous GNU/Linux operating systems.