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Good news RPG fans, your waiting for Eschalon Book 3 is nearly over with their latest news post, currently in alpha they expect the beta to start in November.

You want to update your openQRM Cloud environment? Here a detailed recipe for you!

This week prior to the GNOME 3.10 release also marked the release of GNOME-Panel 3.8 and GNOME-Flashback-Session 3.8. The "GNOME Flashback" project is about revitalizing the GNOME 3 "fallback" session experience found in earlier 3.x releases for cases where no 3D hardware acceleration was available.

Earlier this week I wrote about X-Video support coming to GLAMOR and now it's been implemented by the xf86-video-ati Radeon driver...

Authored by Lindsey Marchessault Over the past year, the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) has facilitated a global consultation process to create a set of open contracting principles. The principles reflect norms and best practices from around the world related to disclosure and participation in public contracting. Nearly 200 open contracting collaborators from government, private sector, civil society, donors, and international financial institutions contributed to the discussion from various sector-specific perspectives (such as service delivery, infrastructure, extractive industries, and land). The resulting Open Contracting Global Principles build on existing norms and conventions related to

Along with the Fedora 20 Alpha release, the Fedora Project also unveiled the MATE/Compiz edition of the upcoming Fedora 20 (Heisenbug) Linux operating system, and we thought that it will be a good idea to make a screenshot tour.

Current versions of the Rock and Paper run the Android operating system and retail for US$79 and US$99 apiece. Both share just about the same specs, other than the fact that the APC Paper does not have a VGA port and ships in a book-like case.

This tutorial is specifically intended to those who wish to try Ubuntu Linux, maybe on an older PC. I decided to do this on my net book since it has been running really slow with Windows 7, and as Windows 7's requirements are much higher than that of Ubuntu's I thought I'd install Ubuntu on my old net book. So here it goes.

Inventare OS 0.0.3 is available. Inventare OS is a general-purpose operating system based on openSUSE.

A list of World- leading websites all hosted on a Linux Server

At OSCON this year, Regina ten Bruggencate and Kim Spiritus gave a talk called How To Get More Kids To Code. I got in late (I was waiting in line to get a free signed copy of The Art of Community by Jono Bacon) so I missed the beginning of this session, but came in as they were demoing Scratch.

One year ago a new Linux OpenGL ABI was proposed to make dealing with Linux OpenGL libraries easier and cleaner, among other benefits. The Linux OpenGL changes that will ultimately affect all Linux graphics drivers is nearing fruition.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 is the most widely used pay-as-you-go type of elastic compute cloud. This guide describes how to run Ubuntu Desktop on Amazon EC2.

The Wine development release 1.7.3 is now available.

While waiting for the final release of the Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) operating system, which will see the light of day on October 17th, we can take a look at the release schedule for the next major iteration of the OS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) 2013 conference took place at the start of the week in Portland, Oregon. As usual, there's a number of Phoronix articles to go over in detail the many interesting presentations that took place this week concerning the X.Org Server, Mesa / Gallium3D graphics drivers, Mir, Wayland, and related Linux graphics initiatives.

Version 4 provides free remote access for Linux and other platforms, and introduces new Enterprise family product suites for organizations.

In celebration of the GNU project's 30th birthday, GNU Hurd 0.5 has been released along with GNU MIG 1.4 and GNU Mach 1.4.

Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials... collect and retain raw traffic, which includes both metadata and content, about “U.S. persons” for up to five years online and for an additional 10 years offline for “historical searches.”

Kristian Høgsberg has provided a status update on the Wayland project and its associated Weston reference compositor.