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So while Valve Software is still working on the Steam Machine, you can download this edition of Sabayon Linux, burn it to a DVD (it’s a 1.4 GB ISO file) or transfer it to a USD stick, boot it from any computer, and enjoy your “Steam Machine.”

Task Coach is a to-do application that lets you set priorities, and organize everything you have to do for that day.

This article is part of an interview series highlighting the speakers of the upcoming All Things Open 2013 conference in Raleigh, NC

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“Click to play” means that every time a webpage wants to take advantage of a plugin, the user will have to click to give it permission. Eventually, Google hopes to replace the old architecture with PPAPI or the Pepper Plugin API, which supposedly fixes a lot of NPAPI’s problems, if they can get traction outside of Google which doesn’t seem likely at this juncture. The folks at Mozilla have already said, “Mozilla is not interested in or working on Pepper at this time.” That sounds like a “no” to me.

The Fedora 20 "Heisenbug" alpha release has arrived with a preview of the latest fantastic, free, and open source technology currently under development. The Fedora 20 release coincides nicely with the 10th anniversary of Fedora. The first Fedora release (then called Fedora Core 1) came out on November 6, 2003. Since then, the Fedora Project has become an active and vibrant community that produces nearly a dozen "spins" that are tailor made for desktop users, hardware design, gaming, musicians, artists, and early classroom environments.

This article is part of an interview series highlighting the speakers of the upcoming All Things Open 2013 conference in Raleigh, NC Joanne Rohde is CEO of Axial Exchange, which creates mobile tools to help patients overcome the challenges of living with chronic disease. She believes healthcare must become more consumer driven and transparent, and she doesn’t believe that’s at odds with patient privacy. Previously, she served as COO and Director of Health IT Strategy at Red Hat and CIO of UBS Investment Banking IT. In her talk at the All Things Open conference in October she will expand on the insights she provides in this interview, from the place where healthcare and technology meet, to include why open source is the answer for better healthcare and how it does not compromise privacy and security.

Starting in early October, Ninja Blocks will ship another 1,000 units of its redesigned open source Linux based home automation device kit. The $199 Ninja Block Kit incorporates a BeagleBone SBC and an Arduino-compatible microcontroller, and offers remote access via smartphone apps and a cloud service to sensor inputs including motion detectors, contact closures, temperature […]

At the age of 77, I have published my first eBook and have a MOOC. These were not endeavors I ever intended to undertake. I wanted to write Forms for a Future—a book about the civic discussions we need to have to have a future worthy of living. So, in the fall of 2007, after a 15 year absence from the world of education, I negotiated an adjunct position in the Honors College, figuring a small undergraduate class would help focus my attention. The course met three times a week and had three required full length textbooks.

Amazon has a new Android-based operating system for its new line of Kindles - for business as well as fun.

Linux has its own share of Dropbox clients; CLI clients as well as GUI-based clients. Dropbox Uploader is an easy-to-use Dropbox CLI client written in BASH scripting language. This tutorial describes how to access Dropbox from the command line in Linux by using Dropbox Uploader.

About 2,000 Chinese employees of an iPhone assembly company fought a pitched battle into the early hours of Monday, forcing the huge electronics plant where they work to be shut down.

Comment: I know this is not an open source story, but many electronic gadgets in use around the world are made at Foxconn's factories.

Of course, as you might expect, there's something of a "split" within the tech sector over whether or not there's support for Goodlatte's latest bill. On the one hand, you've got over 200 startups asking for that accelerated review process for questionable patents. At the same time, you've got a coalition of about 100 more stodgy old line businesses (some of whom are in the tech world) arguing that such a review would "undermine many valid patents." Frankly, that's hogwash, as we'll discuss in a bit.

Your open source project is one of thousands, so how do you help its community grow? Start with project management, great documentation, and a road map.

For those curious how the Mesa 3D graphics library started and evolved from there into now a critical piece of the open-source Linux desktop, here's the story...

Steam Machines - Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world. We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014, all of them running SteamOS.

The OpenROV project began shipping version 2.5 of its Linux-based, $849 underwater robot kit. The open source OpenROV 2.5 design advances to a 1GHz BeagleBone Black SBC, scraps the earlier BeagleBone cape in favor of a faster Arduino-compatible controller board design, and boasts improvements to buoyancy, durability, speed, and battery life.

On September 24, the Fedora Project has announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the Alpha release of the upcoming Fedora 20 (Heisenbug) Linux operating system, so we thought it will be a good idea to make a screenshot tour of the KDE Live DVD.

As expected, the GNOME Project has officially announced the GNOME 3.10 desktop environment a few minutes ago, September 25, 2013, though the project's packages were available for download for a couple of days now.

Look out Xbox, PS4, and Wii! The first of Valve's SteamOS Linux-powered gaming system prototypes will soon be in a few lucky users hands. Then, in 2014, multiple vendors will be selling Steam Machine PCs and gaming consoles.

UberStudent is a free linux distribution developd by students with students in mind. It is intended to be a Linux for learners, linux newbies, students and teachers. UberStudent is the perfect Linux distribution for teaching and sharing knowledge with other people at higher levels.