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Looks like the official DOTA2 game has just hit Linux, you should now see DOTA2 alongside DOTA2 Test!

I recently spoke with Larry Cooperman, director of OpenCourseWare at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Larry also serves on the boards of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and the African Virtual University. I asked Larry about UC Irvine’s new OpenChem project.

It is one of many Python applications that expert and aspiring data scientists may use to mess with data. Orange is cross-platform, but because there are no installation binaries for GNU/Linux distributions, installing it on your favorite distribution entails building it from source.

The rest of this article shows how to build and install it from the downloaded source code.

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.6 is now available.

This week there's been much drama in the Linux kernel development world over Intel's Sarah Sharp and others wanting Torvalds and others to be less "verbally abusive" on the Linux kernel mailing list when criticizing kernel patches and other work.

Linaro has developed a new way foLinaro has developed a new way for Linux and Android developers to implement ARM’s Big.Little multi-core load balancing architecture, in a manner that optimizes power/performance tradeoffs. In addition to the In-kernel Switcher (IKS) released in May, the new Global Task Scheduler (GTS) offers faster, more granular scheduling control, support for non-symmetrical core combos, and the ability to run all cores simultaneously.r Linux and Android developers to implement ARM’s Big.Little multi-core load balancing architecture, in a manner that optimizes power/performance tradeoffs.

After a slew of release candidates, Wine 1.6 was officially released today. The Wine 1.6 release comes just one year after the Wine 1.4 stable release but it packs in about 10,000 individual changes.

The results have been tallied and Debian got the most votes in our Community Distro Poll. We would call them the “winner,” but this wasn’t about winners and losers. It was about trying to reach a consensus on what we mean by the term “community distro.”

For years, we've been hearing about cloud computing and we've seen a push back from many traditional IT pros for all the reasons you would expect. This infographic shows that while those concerns haven't gone away, it seems IT is finally ready to explore the cloud in spite of them --because they are finally beginning to look at the benefits too.

This article explains one user's perspective on Ubuntu and why he had to stop using it in favour of Scientific Linux.

The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. Looks very colourful too!

Datamation has great list of free, fun open source apps and games. If you're looking for some software, check out this list.

The Chaos Engine is a top down shooter that was originally on Amiga, it is being revamped to work on modern computers but it is basically a full recreation.

In this article, apart from basic usage, learn how to display Julian Calendar, date of Easter, week number, months in a range etc.

With Apple's OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" having better OpenGL performance and in compliance with OpenGL 4.1 rather than being GL3-limited as with existing OS X releases, new benchmarks were carried out at Phoronix to see how well Apple's OpenGL driver stack on the current OS X 10.9 developer preview compared to Ubuntu Linux when testing the Intel graphics driver.

In the fall of 2010, I asked the biology class I teach at Western Carolina University for volunteers to help map the campus. Three years later, dozens of students have participated in learning how to use aerial photography and cartography techniques created by Public Lab.

Mozilla is joining with over 60 leading technology companies, startups, investors, technology trade groups and civil society groups today to call on the US government to allow the release of information pertaining to national security requests for user data. Mozilla … Continue reading

Linux users may get bored of the system sounds and wish that they could change them. Thankfully, users can customize the sounds and download more. There are numerous Linux system sounds on the Internet that are free and legal to download.

GitHub, the popular open-source development community site, is finally getting its licensing act together. It's high time since Black Duck has found that 77-percent of GitHub projects have no declared open-source license.

Last month, Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino project, held a workshop at the Foundation Achille Castiglioni in Milan called: Arduino and the light. Participants created an interactive lamp digitally manufactured and designed by Habits Studio. After an introduction about the potentiality of Arduino and to the fundamentals of interactivity, Massimo Banzi led participants through exercises to discover the basis of Arduino and some sensors. Then, over the weekend, everyone built their own lamp, making it interactive by using the components of TinkerKit!—a collection of different sensors and actuators to make prototyping much easier as you can directly hook them up to the Arduino.