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The game Homefront: The Revolution will be ported to Linux. Homefront: The Revolution is a FPS game from Crytek built on the CryENGINE game engine. This is the second game in the series, and it was initially published by THQ, but that company is gone Crytek encounterd some problems. Deep Silver will now publish the game and take care of the Linux port.

Chromebooks are cheap, fast, secure, and work well. Really, what more do you need for your classroom computer?

This week's Top 5: Two exclusive interviews, India's comprehensive open source policy, an introduction to MeowCAD, and on teaching students about open source.

We had a late-breaking problem with the cloud image and some drama with desktop wallpaper and with booting KDE on ARM, but the various groups involved in release logistics wrangled solutions and workarounds, so at today’s “Go/No-Go” meeting, we approved the Tuesday release. If you’re curious, see the meeting minutes for the process that Fedora goes through to make sure the release is ready.

One of the big problems for the Ubuntu phones was that they weren't available for the US market. That problem has been partially fixed now with the release of the Bq Aquaris Ubuntu phones for everyone.

The editorial staff here at Linux Journal wants to see your skills! Almost every time I'm in the #linuxjournal IRC channel, chit chatting on Google+, or tweeting back and forth on Twitter, I hear about really exciting projects our readers are involved with.

HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine) is a just-in-time compiler developed by Facebook to run applications that are written in PHP and Hack language. HHVM is faster than the traditional PHP engine from ZEND and is used by Facebook to serve billions of web requests per day. This tutorial describes the installation of Nginx, MariaDB, HHVM and Wordpress on Debian 8 (Jessie).

In world where everything is connected and everything can be hacked, it shouldn't be a surprise that a rifle can be hacked to have a shooter change targets. That's precisely what independent security researcher Runa Sandvik and her husband Michael Augur detailed at the Black Hat USA conference here.

Adam Conrad has announced the release of an updated version of the Ubuntu distribution and Ubuntu's many community spins. We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with 14.04.3, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack for new installations to support new hardware across all our supported architectures, not just x86. As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The National Democratic Institute is has announced the launch of the Open Election Data Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to ensure that citizen groups have access to election data that can give a true picture of an election process, including how candidates are certified, how and which voters are registered, what happens on election day, whether results are accurate, and how complaints are resolved. read more

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Xfce.

Plasma Mobile is a new project from the KDE developers that is based on Ubuntu Touch, among other technologies. It took everyone by surprise, including the Ubuntu developers who were working on the initial project. Now we have a few new mockups for Plasma Mobile, and they look absolutely stunning.

Feel the download, just don't mind the bandwidth Windows 7 PCs are being force fed a diet of Windows 10, breaking a promise made by Microsoft.…

A design flaw in the x86 processor architecture dating back almost two decades could allow attackers to install a rootkit in the low-level firmware of computers, a security researcher said Thursday. Such malware could be undetectable by security products.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the release of LibreOffice 5, a personal food computer, Creative Common's open letter the President Obama, and more. Open source news roundup for August 1 - 7, 2015 read more

During the two-week trial that concluded this week, Finjan accused Blue Coat products such as WebPulse and ProxyAG of infringing six patents related to "cybersecurity," such as this patent on protecting a computer from "hostile downloadables." The San Jose jury agreed with Finjan that all patents were valid, and found five of the six to be infringed. The verdict came in Tuesday and was announced by Finjan yesterday.

Almost all supercomputers run Linux, including the ones built from Raspberry Pi boards and PlayStation 3 game consoles... what do the Tianhe-2 and the Boise State supercomputer have in common? They both run Linux. As do 486 out of the world’s fastest 500 supercomputers. It’s part of a domination of the category that began over 20 years ago

Jack Wallen finishes up his "barrier to entry" series for the Linux operating system by busting a few remaining myths surrounding the platform.

Mozilla started seeding the first hotfix release of the stable branch of its popular, open-source web browser for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems, Mozilla Firefox 39.0.

Check Point has discovered a serious security hole with mobile remote support tools commonly used by hundreds of millions of Android devices.