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A major issue I have had since returning to the Linux distros such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint has been that my Amazon Prime Instant Video has ceased working by default with the Linux version of Adobe Flash. I was constantly being told that I needed to update my Adobe Flash Player by Amazon Prime Instant every time I tried to play a video.

The fifth release candidate of the feature-rich Wine 1.6 for running Windows applications on Linux and other operating systems is now available. Having been in a code freeze since the first release candidate in early June, the RC5 release today just contains bug-fixes.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in HAProxy, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service. HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Epic Games is working on a new first person shooter that's said to be a triple-A game, but it's not necessarily part of their famed Unreal series. During a talk at a developer conference this week, Epic's Tim Sweeney confirmed the company is working on an "unannounced triple-A shooter" game. This is beyond smaller projects the company has recently been trialing.

Unigine Corp has readied another batch of changes for their visually stunning and multi-platform Unigine Engine. The latest revision to the Unigine Engine introduces a PhysicalNoise object for simulating a force field affecting particles/objects with spatial 3D noise, various render improvements, additions to the engine's C++ API, better UnigineScript support, tooling improvements, and more.

The GNOME 3.9.4 development release was made available this week with many changes to its desktop stack ahead of the official GNOME 3.10 release in September. With this release, GNOME is in better shape when running with Wayland.

Nearing the end of the Linux 3.11 kernel with most (if not all) of the interesting pull requests merged, here's a look at the exciting features that will premiere in this next Linux kernel release.

JULinuXP 2013 ETPE Revision 2 was released on 07-09-2013 however I waited to write this article until the FTP upload was complete to sourceforge.net. The main differences in this release are that LibreOffice was replaced by OpenOffice.

The GNOME Foundation, through Fabiana Simões, announced at the beginning of this month that the upcoming 14th GUADEC Conference for GNOME developers will take place in Brno, Czech Republic between 1-8 August. GUADEC is a great opportunity for free and open source software experts from all over the world to gather together and share their knowledge.

Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure. Use gateway technology to leap from one place to another, change size to explore small passages or defeat large enemies, walk on walls and ceilings to reach new areas and even travel in time to work together with past echoes of yourself.

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, announced a few minutes ago, July 12, that the final and stable release of the Linux Mint 15 Xfce operating system is available for download. Being based on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), Linux Mint 15 Xfce (Olivia) is built on top of the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment, it is powered by Linux kernel 3.8, and uses the MDM (Mint Display Manager) 1.2 login screen.

Deutsche Telekom opened sales of the Firefox OS-based Alcatel One Touch Fire phone in Poland today for one Zloty (30 cents) on contract, a few days after Telefonica launched the ZTE Open for 69 Euros ($89) in Spain. On July 11, Mozilla released Firefox OS Simulator 4.0, which adds features like a “Connect” button and simulated touch events.

Supercomputers are getting faster than ever, but the next generation, which will be able to do a quintillion floating point operations per second, needs software that can keep up. Anyone who programs for high-performance computing (HPC) knows that what works for standard computing doesn't work for supercomputers.

The Apache Software Foundation is out with a pair of important updates to its namesake Apache HTTP Server. The new updates are the Apache 2.0.65 and Apache 2.2.25 releases. Of particular note is the fact that the Apache 2.0.65 release is the final release of the Apache 2.0.x line of HTTP server.

It's Friday and that means it's time for our weekly feature where we search the Web looking for 5 interesting, funny and poignant links for developers and IT Pros. If you missed our most recent post, The enterprise needs to embrace the App Store, please check it out. The enterprise app store concept makes so much sense for organizations. That's why it's so surprising that according to Gartner only 25 percent are expected to build one by 2017.

Christine Hall at Foss Force considers whether or not Linux offers too much in the way of choice for users. Do we have too many distros available? Has that hurt the adoption of Linux on the desktop? I'm inclined to agree with her that choice isn't the problem with desktop Linux. In fact, the range of choices available are one of the primary strengths of Linux. It's what sets Linux apart from Windows (gag!) and OS X (pretty but locked up tight by Apple).

The poll asked the question, “If your hosting company offered a choice of the following operating systems, which would you choose?” Those taking the poll could choose from CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Scientific Linux, openSUSE and Ubuntu.

Verizon announced it joined the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, which means it will likely be marketing Ubuntu mobile devices when they become available, but is there room for another phone OS in the US, even an open source one?

Our latest look at the current development state of Ubuntu 13.10 is comparing the "Saucy Salamander" performance against that of Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04.2 LTS, and 11.10. Testing was done with an Intel Sandy Bridge system to see how the Ubuntu Linux performance has evolved over the past two years in the road to the October release of Ubuntu 13.10.

Microsoft Corp. has decided its entire business needs a new operating system. CEO Steve Ballmer is restructuring the company to cope with a quickening pace of technological change that has left the world's largest software maker a step behind its two biggest rivals, Apple and Google. In an effort to catch up, Microsoft is dismantling a management structure that separated the company into sometimes disjointed divisions and hatching a more cohesive product line-up. The new set up revolves around software, devices and services connecting those devices to applications stored in remote data centers — a concept that has become known as "cloud computing."