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Clement Lefebvre, the creator of the Linux Mint distribution, has just announced that the next version of the Mint operating system will be called “Qiana” and it should be available by the end of May 2014.

Open source news for your reading pleasure. March 15-21, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at The Guardian's new custom rich text editor, printable circuit boards, and more.

NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD are not always rivals and they proved that by organizing a joint panel at the Game Developer Conference 2014 in San Francisco to explain to developers how they can unlock the amazing potential of OpenGL.

'Hack' language brings best bits of other languages to LAMP-land The big “HACK” signs reputed to adorn the walls of Facebook offices aren't just a command from His Royal Zuckness: The Social Network also uses a programming language called “Hack” and has just given it to the world.…

What is Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) in education and how can we get more students involved? HFOSS is open source software that has a humanitarian purpose such as disaster management, health care, economic development, social services, and more. Experience with undergraduate participation in HFOSS shows it can both motivate students and provide excellent learning opportunities. There is also an indication that it can help attract and retain female students.

The KDE community today released the third beta of Applications and Development Platform 4.13. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. We kindly request your assistance with finding and fixing issues.

A chance for Valve to really improve their own software, as their Vogl OpenGL debugger now supports debugging their Big Picture mode.

Two of the world's most widely deployed web server technologies have both recently been updated to fix security vulnerabilities.

Working with the Android OS on a desktop computer environment takes personal computing in a new direction. How many will follow it remains to be seen. The release of Android-x86 version 4.4-RC1 (KitKat-x86) by the Android-x86 Project brings the viability of an Android distro as an alternative desktop several steps closer, but it is still a work in progress.

With the first alpha release yesterday of the Debian 8.0 installer back when I was briefly in the office, I decided to try out the updated installer and packages for this next Debian release that's under the Jessie codename.

You all love free games right? Good news as it is free games Thursday here at GOL and we bring you news that H-Craft Championship has been unshackled from it's price-tag and is FREE.

Making a 'feature' of security, two years later than planned, Oracle has made Java ready by default for a multi-core world.

Canonical developer Daniel d'Andrada has posted a new video showing off Unity 8 as a Mir compositor.

Abe is back and he's Odder than ever in this brand new gameplay footage that showcases the dynamic new visual effects, refined gameplay and explosive new sound design of Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, a dramatic ground-up remake of the classic Abe's Oddysee.

Among the many new capabilities in WordPress 3.9 is the inclusion of Widget management in live previews.

In today's open source roundup: Google announces the Android Wear platform. Plus: The Witcher 2 may be coming to Steam for Linux, and Debian 8 Jesse Alpha 1 available for download.

Here we are again, another 75 titles have been greenlit to be on Steam and 37 of them stated Linux support in their platform lists!

Open source software-defined networking (SDN) solutions are enjoying high demand in the enterprise, and are already seeing significant adoption, according to a new report.

Even the most beautiful Rails application can lose its elegance if not deployed correctly. Like other Ruby frameworks or languages, such as Sinatra, Rails is based on the Rack interface. This article provides a basic introduction to Rack hosting and Rack-based application deployments.

At another Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee meeting on Wednesday, another promising round of Fedora 21 features were approved...