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It has finally happened, Team Meat have enabled the Linux version of Super Meat Boy onto Steam!

Since the announcement of Steam Machines, more and more AAA games are being released for Linux. This time, the Ukrainian development studio 4A Games and the German Game Publisher Deep Silver have published the very successful and, perhaps graphically the most elaborate first-person shooter for Linux at the moment, Metro Last Light.

The Gate One HTML5-powered terminal emulator and SSH client that goes without needing any browser plug-ins and supports many SSH/terminal features is working on bringing X11 support to the web-browser. The developer claims that this X11 support in the browser written in HTML5 will be fast enough to support video playback and he's made a video demo as proof.

The NVIDIA 331.20 Linux graphics driver has been released today. The NVIDIA 331.20 Linux driver has a workaround to support the Linux 3.11 and 3.12 kernels along with introducing NvFBCOpenGL. The new NvFBCOpenGL is for NVIDIA OpenGL frame-buffer capturing that's high-performance and low-latency.

RobotBits.co.uk has begun selling an open source mobile robotics kit from Frindo.org available with an Arduino Duo, or as an under-$100 model that lets you add your own Arduino and/or Raspberry Pi. The Frindo robotics platform, which appears to be about 100mm in diameter, is billed as being more robust than most low-cost educational robots, and is optionally available with a motor controller board and sensor bundle.

Fedora is now 10 years old and is now one of the most beloved Linux distributions. When it was started, it was hated.

So today marks a whole year of having the Steam client on Linux, how will you celebrate or do you still refuse to use it?

A world made of tiny colourful cubes sets the stage for a cast of cute characters on their quests to find courage, adventure, friendship, and sometimes just a way to get home.

The Mini-K7 is designed for embedded instrumentation, distributed data acquisition, mobile instrumentation, and remote, autonomous I/O, says FPGA (field programmable gate array) specialist Innovative Integration. Markets for the device are said to include manufacturing, medical, military, telecom, and test and measurement.

Today in Open Source: Should you use Linux? Plus: antiX 13.2 released, and the 2013 developer salary survey results

SuperX 2.1 is an Ubuntu-based distribution with a tweaked KDE desktop, aimed at beginners and casual Linux users. This is a minor update to Darwin and contains mostly performance tweaks and updated software stack. For those are not aware of changes that came with our previous release - Darwin, we've enlisted top changes that came with Darwin and are continuing and changes that are specific to Ada. We still use Ubuntu codebase but starting from Darwin release we only use the LTS versions and development is done on its solid foundation.

Build a prosperous colony, fill it with magnificent factories worked by oppressed labourers, and harness the awesome power of steam through fearsome machines invented by determined men and women of Science!

Mainline Release (Linus's tree) News Linus Torvalds released 3.12 on November 3 2013 after seven 3.12 rc cycles. This time around, instead of opening the merge window right after the release, Linus chose to delay it by a week. The 3.13 merge window will be open on November 10th. In this release announcement, Linus started a discussion on bug-fix only 4.0 idea.

Most traffic monitoring tools are powered by libpcap, which is a packet capture library used to monitor network traffic in user space. Despite their versatility, however, libpcap-based network monitoring tools cannot scale to handle traffic on multi Gigabit rate network interfaces, due to the overhead associated with user-space packet capture. This tutorial presents simple shell scripts that can monitor network traffic on per-interface basis, without relying on slow libpcap library.

Plenty of companies have built businesses around Linux, MySQL, SugarCRM and other open source technologies. But what open source platforms will define 2014? Keep an eye on Hadoop, KVM, NoSQL, OpenDaylight and OpenStack. Here's why.

Learn how to install, benchmark and optimize this popular, shared-nothing and scalable open-source distributed filesystem in this special 12 page report.

Our survey of more than 3,000 developers and managers shows that after several years of being flat, salaries are on the rise once again

One of the businesses of the multifaceted Rovi Corporation is the creation of "interactive program guides," like the ones you might see on the DVR that comes with your cable or satellite service. Cable companies like Comcast buy Rovi's online guide services. There are other video-on-demand companies that don't want to use Rovi's guide services, but Rovi wants them to pay up anyway. The company believes the trove of patents it has acquired over the years mean it owns rights to a wide array of what are essentially online television guides.

Although Drupal 8 is not released yet, its features are frozen and here is what we can expect from new version of this popular CMS.

Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, but Linux founder and “keeper of the flame”, Linus Torvalds, has put developers and the rest of the world on notice that a Linux 4.0 is coming sooner rather than later, “I don't want us to get to the kinds of crazy numbers we had in the 2.x series, so at some point we're going to cut over from 3.x to 4.x, just to keep the numbers small and easy to