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Let’s take a moment to appreciate the heritage of this influential operating system, and the many ways it has bettered our world.

Some days ago Valve announced it’s new, and not so secret, project SteamOS : “Thousands of games, millions of users. Everything you love about Steam. In short, soon there will be a new Linux distribution tailored to get the max from Steam and its games.

I spent last year writing a book using Linux (with a little bit of VirtualBox thrown in for good luck). The process was painless and shows that Linux is a powerful, flexible, convenient tool for knowledge work.

The big reason the French Gendarmerie made the Linux move? It saved them 40 percent in total cost of ownership over Windows.

Today in Open Source: The French police move to desktop Linux. Plus: Google Chrome 30 released, and a review of Knoppix 7.2

Free/Libre and Open Source software versus closed and proprietary software doesn’t matter. It’s not the answer to solve all our problems. It’s not the question we need to ask anyone and everyone either. It simply doesn’t matter. Well, it might matter to you and I…but it doesn’t matter to most people out there.

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and any version controlled projects. Meld offers two- and three-way diff and merge, as well as supports simple commands of major version control systems (e.g., SVN, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar). This tutorial describes how to diff and merge files and directories on Linux by using Meld.

Debugging is a major software development activity, which as an application developer, you cannot avoid. Effective debugging can not only shorten the software development cycle, but can also save costs. This article introduces techniques for locating bugs in user-space C/C++ and Java(TM) applications and describes some of the debugging tools available on Linux(TM) for POWER(TM) architecture.

WD (Western Digital) today unveiled a hard drive that acts as a personal cloud, offering password-protected access to data over the Internet via any mobile or desktop device.WD's My Cloud drive runs on Linux and comes with management software that is compatible with iOS, Android, Windows or OS X. The My Cloud software also allows users to organize digital content from all of their devices and set up automated cloud backups.

The desktop market is shrinking and they have no market share to speak of in mobile. Windows 8 hasn’t yet worked out well for them. So far, their biggest growth in smartphones and tablets seems to be in selling patent protection for Android devices from the likes of Samsung and HTC. This comes as they’re attempting to create the perception that their attitude toward open source has changed. The Microsoft FUD machine has been relatively quiet for some time and it’s been years since Mr. Ballmer publicly referred to open source as “communist” or claimed Linux to be “a cancer.”

Everyone needs cloud-savvy administrators, but there aren't enough to go around. Worse still, if someone does come to you and they say they know OpenStack like the back of their hand, how do you know they do? Or, flipping it around, if you're a smart system administrator who wants to pick up mad OpenStack cloud skills, how do you do that?

MEN Mikro announced a rugged, Linux-ready box-PC for use on trains, buses, airplanes, and construction and agricultural vehicles. The BL50W comes with single- or dual-core AMD G-Series APUs, provides dual full-HD DisplayPort outputs, expands via SD, mSATA, and Mini PCIe slots, offers gig-E, WiFi, GPS, and cellular connectivity, and supports wide temperature fanless operation.

Userland Frontier was an object-based (outline-based?) scripting environment that moonlighted as a content management system. Or, perhaps it was a scriptable content management system. Or, perhaps it was an outliner, and it grew into a content management system that you could script. I'm sure someone out there will have an opinion or definition that's more accurate, but I think that the outliner freaks in the audience will all agree that it was an impressive outlining and (ultimately) web publishing system. (I don't know if it was as good an outliner as MORE, but my goal isn't to start an outliner-flame-war here...)

AMD's Alex Deucher announced today via his personal blog that programming guides and register specifications on the 3D engines for the Evergreen, Northern Islands, Southern Islands, and Sea Islands GPUs is now in the NDA-free public domain. These parts represent the 3D engines on the Radeon HD 5000 through Radeon HD 8000 series graphics processors.

Dot Categories: KDE Success StoryFree and Open Source Software in Taiwan has made impressive strides thanks to the work of the 'ezgo' team. They have put together a pre-configured set of Open Source software which makes it easy for teachers and students to get up and running. The New Taipei City government has decided to install ezgo 11 on 10,000 PCs for elementary schools, bringing thousands of students in contact with Linux, KDE and educational Free Software. The ezgo team has written up an account of ezgo and how it came to be. Enjoy the read!

Now, is the turn of the Steam Controller, a futuristic game controller or gamepad designed to be a replacement for the traditional gaming keyboard and mouse.

Who says Linux is not growing? Everyday somewhere around the globe people ranging from personal businesses to government agencies are switching to Linux. Governments are also encouraging the use of it.

Following on from the Klaus Knopper interview earlier this week here is a review of the Knoppix 7.2 live operating system.

Today I present to you another comparison video, this time around running Unigine's Heaven benchmark. The Heaven benchmark is very demanding on even the latest hardware, so I was interested to see how Ubuntu, a Linux distro, would handle the stress in comparison to Windows 8.

As vehicles become increasingly dependent on embedded computers for functions such as engine timing, acceleration, braking, and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), the risk of cyber attacks on cars is growing dramatically. With this in mind, Southwest Research Institute has formed the Automotive Consortium for Embedded Security (ACES), which will have an informal initial meeting on Oct. […]