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For those that didn't yet watch Gabe Newell's talk about Linux gaming, at the end of the presentation he notes next week will be more information from Valve about their plans to bring Linux into the living room.

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, said today that Linux is the future of gaming despite the minuscule share of the market it has today....Linux gaming generally accounts for less than one percent of the market by any measure...but Valve is going to do its best to make sure Linux becomes the future of gaming by extending its Steam distribution platform to hardware designed for living rooms.

Gabe Newell was one of the prominent speakers today during the first day of LinuxCon in New Orleans. Here's an upload of his presentation where he's trumpeting the benefits of Linux for servers and gaming. Gabe believes, "Linux is the future of gaming."

Linux is landing on gaming systems and embedded devices.....At the annual LinuxCon USA conference that started Sept. 16, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin detailed the current state of Linux and how it is evolving in 2013.

A Linux Foundation report found that among the growing list of companies participating in Linux kernel development, embedded-oriented firms like Linaro, Samsung, and Texas Instruments, have increased their contributions at the fastest rate.

Running With Scissors has revealed some but not all of the details of what will come with the Postal 2 DLC!

The Linux kernel is at the heart of the open-source Linux operating systems, and it is developed by an ever-growing number of contributors, coming from a diverse group of companies. The Linux Foundation today released its annual "Who Writes Linux" report revealing trends in the state of Linux kernel development as well as who those contributors are and precisely how fast Linux is actually growing. -

MongoDB is an open source document- oriented database system written in C++ by Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. It runs on UNIX machines as well as Windows and supports replication and sharding (aka horizontal partitioning) – the process of separating a single database across a cluster of machines.

The increasing popularity of Linux and Linux-native gaming platforms such as Steam is bringing mainstream gaming to Linux. If you are a hardcore gamer, you will probably pay great attention to the performance of the graphics card on your system. This tutorial describes how to find information about a video card and video driver used in Linux system.

n the latest report on who writes Linux, the answer comes to almost 10,000 programmers since 2005 and 1,100 in the last year alone.

BlastEm has the goal of being an extermely accurate Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) emulator while still running on relatively modest hardware by using advanced techniques.

As always, the event will kickoff with the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin giving his State of Linux keynote. In his 2012 keynote, Zemlin highlighted the continued shift towards mobility and the cloud. For 2013, expect to hear more on that as well as discussion about Linux's movement into the collaborative development space. Over the course of the last year, the Linux Foundation has brought in a number of groups under the banner of its collaborative project banner. Among those projects are the Xen virtualization hypervisor and the OpenDaylight Software Defined Networking (SDN) project.

Gnash, the Free Software Foundation's work on an open-source Adobe SWF/Flash player, can now handle RTMP streaming of audio/video/data from servers.

Canonical also unveiled the first Beta release of the upcoming Edubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) operating system, which is also the first development version of Edubuntu 13.10. Except from the fact that Edubuntu 13.10 Beta 1 includes the 3.11.0.4 Ubuntu Linux kernel, which is based on the upstream Linux 3.11 RC7 kernel, there are no other visible changes in this release.

In a previous article, I discussed the complaints that have been leveled against GitHub during the past year and a half concerning the purported problem of public, seemingly-FLOSS code repositories with no explicit licensing. Here I will address the actions GitHub took in July, which were undoubtedly in response to this criticism.

The merge window for the Linux 3.12 kernel is coming to an end and 3.12-rc1 should be released soon. Here's an overview of the interesting merges that happened over the past two weeks as new features for Linux 3.12.

The Beat Making Lab is back, with Pierce Freelon and the Apple Juice Kid. In this video, the music-making duo walks us through why the world needs open source beat making software.

The Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1 operating system is the last *buntu edition from the Saucy Salamander Beta 1 releases published by Canonical last week. Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1 (Saucy Salamander) is distributed as DVD ISO image, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Enjoy our screenshot tour of Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1.

Belgium said on Monday it was investigating suspected foreign state espionage against its main telecoms company, which is the top carrier of voice traffic in Africa and the Middle East, and a newspaper pointed the finger at the United States.

If you want the newest of the new open-source software, you use Fedora Linux, but if you use Red Hat Enterprise Linux in your business, you had to wait for major releases… until now