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Life at a gaming company isn’t always fun-and-games. It’s also a demanding IT environment with a huge amount of data to manage. Using various Hadoop open source tools, the gaming company behind League of Legends supported hypergrowth and delivered more timely analytics.

Microsoft will unleash Windows 8.1 for world+dog to download in October, it's claimed, a year after it released the touchscreen-friendly, tile-tastic Windows 8. The software giant is preparing to release version 8.1 of its operating system to computer makers later this month, but it has been reported the public will get the upgrade for their PCs in October.

The Linux kernel is large with numerous features that can be configured and there are still many more features that can be configured.The next kernel feature that can be configured is a x86 random number generator (x86 architectural random number generator (ARCH_RANDOM)).

The graphics stack in Linux comprises a number of distinct projects, and in this article we'll take a look at the current development of X.org, Wayland, and Cairo. Linux graphics have undergone a major evolution over the past decade in two respects. First has been a shift from 2D system rendering, to today's hardware-accelerated 3D system compositing.

On Linux systems, numerous users often come across a program or process that locks up. The user will usually kill the software if the system does not do it first. Users may be familiar with some of the kill commands and signals, but does anyone understand all of them? There are four common kill commands and a total of 64 kill signals.

Sabayon Linux 13.08, a desktop distribution based on Gentoo following a rolling release model and providing multiple desktops, was released today.

Mozilla is now out with its Firefox 24 browser as a beta release, providing developers and early adopters with a preview of technologies that will become generally available for consumers in the next six weeks.

You awake from the cold chill of your cryo-tube to discover cybernetic implants grafted to your flesh and the crew of the starship Von Braun slaughtered. The infected roam the halls, their screams and moans beckoning you to join them as the rogue artificial intelligence known as SHODAN taunts and ridicules your feeble attempt to unravel the horrifying mystery of the derelict starship Von Braun.

The architect Alstair Parvin shared is this TED Talk—it's a fascinating view of how open source thinking can transform architecture and multiply its benefits to society at large.

Asking yourself howto merge and enhance your internal IT with public- and/or private Cloud resources such as Amazon EC2 or Eucalyptus Instances? Please find the answer in the following detailed openQRM Use-Case with focus on Amazon EC2 Public Cloud.

Advantech has breathed new life into its Linux-friendly AMD-based PC/104 single board computer family with a fanless, ruggedized PC/104 model built around an AMD G-Series APU. The PCM-3356 offers up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, features dual gigabit Ethernet ports, SATA, four USB ports, three serial ports, and two Mini-PCie sockets, and supports -40 to 85°C extended temperature operation.

Nmap is popular network scanner software that can actively probe a particular host or a network to infer in-depth information about them. While Nmap itself is a command-line utility, you can run it along with its GUI front-end called Zenmap. This tutorial talks about how to scan particular hosts or networks by using Nmap GUI.

Few would deny that the rise of GitHub as a popular hosting service for software projects is one of the most significant developments to affect open source during the past five years. GitHub's extraordinary success is necessary context for understanding the criticism leveled at it during the past year from some within or close to the open source world. This criticism has focused on licensing, or rather the lack of it: it is claimed that GitHub hosts an enormous amount of code with no explicit software license. Some critics have suggested that this situation results from a combination of the ignorance of younger developers about legal matters and willful inaction by GitHub's management. In a followup article I will discuss the measures recently taken by GitHub to address these concerns; this article explores aspects of the complaint itself.

When Mark Shuttleworth founded Canonical in 2004, he made a promise to his staff: "You can count on me for two years." The idea was "to get the team to relax" and focus on the newly created Ubuntu operating system. Shuttleworth wanted to eliminate the pressure of becoming a blockbuster business overnight.

He issued no ultimatums. And although Shuttleworth wanted Canonical to be self-sustaining, he didn't threaten to abandon Ubuntu if it lost money. "When we started, I told the team two years," he recently told Ars. "I didn't say, 'till it's profitable.' I said, 'You can count on me for two years. What I want to really see is evidence of a clear path to success and really interesting disruption.'"

The Xen Project User Summit comes to New Orleans on September 18. Talks include Greg Kroah-Hartman's "Free yourself from the tyranny of your cloud provider!", information on how to run whatever kernel you want on your Xen VM, regardless of what your hosting company provides.

Linux 3.11 progresses as new versions of Sabayon and Elementary OS debut

Google Glass, part of the wearable computing wave, is attracting plenty of developer interest. The New York Times, Facebook, Twitter and CNN, among others, have already introduced applications (known as Glassware) for the Glass Explorer preview. What's next? I see a big opportunity in the IT support market.

It was just meant to be a quick experiment. I started using a Nexus 4. I was going to go right back to my iPhone after a week. I was designing more and more Android interfaces at Twitter and realized I needed to more intimately grok Android UI paradigms.

The good news is, we found plenty of great new blogs and we’ve now reached the second round in our vote. We’ve ended up with ten additional blogs to consider, in addition to the nine that were already on our list. That means voters now have a field of 19 blogs from which to choose. As with the first qualifying round, you can vote for one or two blogs. Because this is an elimination round and not a qualifying round, however, there is no longer any way to add a new blog for consideration. As Flip Wilson’s Geraldine used to say, “What you see is what you get.”

In an attempted preemptive strike on other would be number three smartphone OS makers, Firefox and ZTE has partnered up to bring an $80 Firefox OS, unlocked smartphone to all users everywhere via eBay.