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The GOG.com online game store that offers various DRM-free game titles will finally begin shipping Linux games.

Controlling Amarok from a terminal may come in handy in various situations, and can also be a way of using scripts or aliases to give commands directly to Amarok, without having to even keep the window opened, instead leaving it running in the system tray.

Last week at CeBIT, KDE won the Linux New Media Readers Choice Award 2014 (link to German language Linux Magazine) for the best Linux Desktop Environment.

At a recent gathering of like-minded Linux users, I learned that many of my peers hadn't actually made the move to SSDs yet......it boiled down to three main concerns: reliability; compatability with Linux; and whether an SSD would make much of a difference. Luckily, these three concerns are based either on misunderstandings, outdated data, exaggeration or are just not correct.

Every once in a while here in the Linux blogosphere, a topic will suddenly pop up in multiple separate, unconnected places and take on a life of its own. Perhaps it's some unseen cosmic force guiding Linux geeks' conversations in the same direction, or perhaps it's just Linux Girl's proclivity for drawing connections. In any case, it happened again earlier this month.

A European telecom law approved by a committee today is intended to prevent Internet service providers from blocking or slowing down Web applications, but lets ISPs charge content providers for higher quality of service.

Critics say this allowance will create an Internet "fast lane" and undermine the principles of net neutrality, that Internet service providers should treat all traffic equally. The European Parliament's Industry Committee announced its vote in favor of the "Connected Continent" legislation, saying that "Internet providers should no longer be able to block or slow down Internet services provided by their competitors."

Check and wipe: The la-la-la-its-not-happening plan is no good Hackers using a Trojan seized control of over 25,000 Unix servers worldwide to create a potent spam and malware distribution platform.…

Gmusicbrowser is a music browser for GNOME written in Perl and GTK2, built to handle large collections, highly configurable, with integrated music library, plugin support, many view modes, lyrics and Wikipedia info integration, as well as equalizer.

The pragmatic programmer who popularized Ruby and katas and was an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto discusses what's wrong with Agile, why he thinks Elixir is the next killer language, and how to design your own programming challenges.

Adding fuel to the debate over the treatment of women in tech, Julie Ann Horvath, a developer at GitHub, has stormed out of her job, accusing the company of ignoring harassment in the workplace. One of the company's three cofounders and his wife had persistently intimidated her, and an engineer had repeatedly ripped out her code after she turned down his advances, Horvath claimed.

Most folks who have been around Linux and/or open source software for awhile are aware of what GTK and QT are - tool kits for building applications. Something that not as many may be aware of is that there is another open source tool kit out there - the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. These serve as the building blocks not only for the Enlightenment desktop, but also for a growing number of applications.

Today I am going to provide a quick round up of applications written utilizing the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

This is fantastic news, GOG.com are finally going to open up their store to penguin lovers of the Linux family!

In today's open source roundup: The Steam Controller gets analog buttons in place of its touchscreen. Plus: SteamOS is officially a Debian fork, and an interview with a Linux Lite developer.

I am just wondering what is going to happen when by the end of 2014 similar "packstack multinode setup via standard prepared answer-files" will run on RHEL 7 & CentOS 7 (F19 based systems) servers landscapes. This slides http://oddbit.com/rdo-hangout-multinode-packstack-slides/ would work for almost any sysadmin, even has no idea what OS is really on top of OpenStack and what Juju is.

Jason Kridner is the co-founder of BeagleBoard.org, where he has helped create open source development tools such as BeagleBone Black, BeagleBone, BeagleBoard, and BeagleBoard-xM. Kridner is also a software architecture manager for embedded processors at Texas Instruments (TI).

Without solid storage, the data of the cloud lives only in the moment. Within OpenStack, storage comes in two flavors: object storage, which stores chunks of information, and block storage, which is more analogous to the traditional idea of a disk drive image. Block storage in OpenStack is handled by Cinder, which provides the infrastructure for managing volumes and sharing them with the other components in OpenStack.

Here’s a close look at the technique and code for console handling in Standard (i.e., ISO/ANSI) C/C++. In the latter part of the article readers are encouraged to write their own code for the clrscr, getch, gotoxy, text color, and text background functions.

GOG releases on Linux this Autumn with the digital distributor testing a selection of their titles on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Congatec’s 84 x 55mm COM Express board uses an Atom E3800 SoC, and offers multiple display, SATA, GbE, and USB ports, PCIe expansion, and optional 64GB SSD. The “Conga-MA3″ computer-on-module supports the tiny (84 x 55mm) COM Express Mini Type 10 form-factor, which uses a single 220 pin A-B connector. In October, Congatec announced a […]

Earlier this year, I shared my story about open source designs and my 3D printed prosthetic hand to a room of 4,600+ at Intel’s Annual International Sales Conference in Las Vegas. I joined Jon Schull on stage, the founder of e-NABLE, an online group dedicated to open source 3D printable assistive devices. The reaction we got from our talk was unexpected—and it was one of the most awkward and exhilarating experiences of my life.