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The Steam for Linux platform is expanding, and it's now home to more than 1,400 games and applications. The number of new titles, ported or released natively, has been increasing in the past year or so, and there is no sign that it's slowing down.

Linux is 24 years old today. In 1996, he told me how it all started.

Severely bad weather is one of the few things that can still awe people while causing large-scale catastrophes. Especially if you live in the US, you most likely have witnessed a dangerously large storm during the tornado season. Preparing for those situations is crucial for the safety and survival of you and your family, and while you can always keep an eye on the news for weather reports, you can also use your Linux system to draw conclusions yourself. There are a couple of free software tools that offer more “specialized” information that goes well beyond air speed and temperature.

When I ended my Doc Dish article about why you should use a rendered language for documentation, I told you that selecting a language was a matter for another day. Well another day has finally arrived. read more

What's that big spike on site performance graph? Developer playground GitHub is experiencing a under attack distributed-denial-of-service attack perpetrated by unknown actors.…

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva—more commonly called stone man's syndrome—is the result of a rare mutation, an anomaly in the way certain enzymes called kinases spur protein synthesis. Someone with stone man's syndrome has hyperactive kinases that catalyze more bone production than they should. The body's natural repair mechanisms malfunction, and they replace soft tissue with deposits of solid bone. Joints freeze. The body becomes a prison. read more

In case you weren’t paying attention, there’s a new Linux file system on the horizon, thanks to a former Google engineer.

That engineer in question, namely Kent Overstreet, posted a message on LKML.org last week promoting the progress of Bcache File System, or Bcachefs, the first Linux file system written specifically for solid state disks. The purpose of the new file system is to ramp up the speed in the way Linux stores data on servers.

Motion graphics is the term used for all the snazzy, fancy logos and bars and tickers that stream across screens during the evening news, sporting events, and documentaries. There's a fine art to good motion graphics, and Kdenlive (or any video editing application, for that matter) is not exactly the best place for it. That said, a modern video editor is expected, or has the expectation, that at least simple and functional graphics should be a part of the video editing process. read more

Cloud Media has launched a dual-boot Linux and Android “Popcorn Hour A-500 Pro” media player with 3840 x 2160 video, high-quality analog audio, and XLR out. Formerly known as Syabas, Cloud Media has been selling Linux-based Popcorn Hour and Popbox media players for years.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, helps Microsoft gain influence in the Foundation after payments are received

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Anchor CMS on a Debian 8 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx.

The Ubuntu Touch platform needs a lot of apps to attract more users, but it also needs games. There aren't a lot of complex, 3D titles available, and now TuxRacer is one of them.

Xtreme Download Manager is a free and open source download manager. XDM is cross-platform and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac. The new version has just been released with amazing changes to it. Specially XDM look has completely changed. I bet you'll be amazed watching development of the team. Let's see what's new in this release!

Don't try and cut corners, or you'll end up in a twisty, tangly mess. Now that we have CQL for Cassandra and N1QL for Couchbase, it seems the power of SQL is being opened for NoSQL database developers.

Ubuntu app developer and Open Source enthusiast Riccardo Padovani had the great pleasure of informing Softpedia about his upcoming game for Canonical's Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system used on Ubuntu phone devices.

If candidates for the Democratic nomination in the presidential election used Linux or another open source operating system, which distribution would it be?

Docker is an open-source project that provides an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, package, and run applications anywhere as a lightweight container. This tutorial shows the installation of Docker on Ubuntu 15.04 and the first steps to get started with Docker container management.

A Raspberry Pi 2 is going to space, but for that it need to undergo some serious testing. It's going to use the most awesome case you've ever seen, and it's all happening very soon.

You might not have known, but the NSA -- yes, that NSA -- has a Tech Transfer Program. When it transferred the tech that became Apache NiFi to open source last year, the engineers who had been working on the project launched their own startup. Hortonworks bought it today and is folding it into its company.

Oracle's chief security officer, Mary Ann Davidson, recently ticked off almost everyone in the security business. She proclaimed that you had to do security "expertise in-house because security is a core element of software development and you cannot outsource it."