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Guild Software announced a new maintenance release of their popular and cross-platform Vendetta Online 3D space combat MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) title.

A few weeks ago when thinking what to write, I mused over the notion of a piece about the Free Software Foundation celebrating its 30 year anniversary and how relevant and important its work is in today's computing climate.

elementary OS was officially updated to version 0.3.1 a few days ago, and it looks like the project has settled in a status quo, which brings good news and bad news. Stability is always something to be desired, but the project is no longer exciting.

Mozilla and seven other organizations will be participating in the Grace Hopper Open Source Day codethon taking place during the main conference event, on October 14. Emma Irwin is a Community Education Lead with Mozilla, and talks to me about why Mozilla is involved in the codethon, what she gets out of it, and what participants learn from it.

What happens when your Android device winds up getting bogged down with malware to the point where you can't get to the Google Play Store to remove said malware? Believe it or not, this happens. When it does, you're going to need to know how to boot Android into safe mode.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian 8 (codename jessie). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were published separately and are referenced where applicable.

VirtualBox, a virtualization solutions that allows users to run and install operating systems inside other operating systems, has been updated to version 5.0.4 and is now ready for download.

Pre-launch open-ish code appears online. Chip blueprint scribbler ARM has released some of the source code for its first public beta of mbed, its operating system for the Internet of Things.

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Plex. It might be a secret, however, that I live in a house with quite a few Apple products. That said, I find the Apple TV to be one of the most limiting, frustrating set-top boxes to work with. (I'm sure most readers would agree.) I prefer to be a lover, not a hater, so I searched long and hard to find a way to make the Apple TV suck less.

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, discusses his organization's expanding efforts to help enable multiple open source foundations.

Zbigniew Konojacki, the creator, maintainer, and lead developer of the 4MLinux distribution, was more than happy to inform Softpedia earlier today, September 8, about the immediate availability for download of the final release of 4MLinux 13.1.

In today's open source roundup: How Debian plans to stop backdoors and the CIA. Plus: Adblock Plus launches Adblock browser for Android. And Raspberry Pi touch display released.

Companies like Apple say they are protecting their customers’ information by resisting government demands for access to text messages. A standoff has grown between the sides as the companies have embraced tougher encryption.

In this tutorial, I will walk you through the steps to install and configure Arch Linux as a server. Arch Linux is an independently developed general purpose GNU/Linux distribution, versatile enough to suit any role. Development focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance.

Austrumi is a Linux distribution that is based on Slackware and developed by a small team from the Latgale region of Latvia, a small ex-USSR Baltic state.

Erle Robotics has launched a six-legged Erle-Spider robot on Indiegogo, with an Erle-Brain 2 controller that runs Ubuntu Snappy and ROS on a Raspberry Pi 2. Spain’s Erle Robotics was the first company to create an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) using the Linux version of 3DR’s typically Arduino-based APM (ArduPilot Mega) drone autopilot platform. The company started with the Erle-Copter Ubuntu Edition quadrotor, and then shipped its almost identical Ubuntu Snappy based Erle-Copter Ubuntu Core Special Edition. Now, Erle Robotics has gone to Indiegogo to launch a six-legged “Erle-Spider” robot that similarly runs on Snappy Ubuntu Core and the Robot Operating System (ROS) open source robotics platform.

Working on the Open Web is a niche area of the greater open source community. Usually the work does not get the same level of fanfare of other areas of open source, but the work is very important. Here, I've compiled a list of 15 people helping move the Open Web forward you should follow on Twitter. All of them are doing amazing work and have great content to share and will help keep you up to date on important things happening on the Open Web. read more

We're happy to introduce you today to a new Live DVD ISO image from the well-known Linux AIO project, which contains the basic, freely distributed editions of the popular Zorin OS GNU/Linux distribution.

digiKam is an Open-Source project Photos management software, specially for KDE but you can use it on Ubuntu or others distros too. In digiKam photos are organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections. Developers recently released digiKam 4.13.0 with a list of 31 bug fixes.

The Open Organization book club is in full swing. During preparations a few weeks ago, I was asked (as an ambassador) to pick two of my favorite chapters from the book. During the weeks to come, I would lead discussion on one of them. Choosing wasn't difficult, as topics like meritocracy and passion resonate with my many years of involvement in open source. Passion it was! read more