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The Mageia development team announced a few minutes ago, August 10, the immediate availability for download of the first Alpha release of the upcoming Mageia 4 operating system.

With Fedora more liberally pushing down package updates compared to Ubuntu Linux and other fixed-release distributions, how has the performance evolved since the release of "Schrödinger's Cat" in early July? Here's some benchmarks showing how the Fedora 19 performance has evolved with a newer kernel and other changes...

A set of six patches were published for Mesa on Friday that allow for profiling support with Gallium3D's "Clover" state tracker for OpenCL support...

Here’s a quick rundown of the day 1 talks that have transcripts and / or video recordings:

Scarcely a week after the Intel-backed Minnowboard.org project began shipping its $199 open-hardware single board computer, the AMD-backed GizmoSphere.org project released an unrestricted version of its $189 Gizmo SBC’s schematic and electronics distributor Digi-Key added Wandboard.org’s open, Freescale-based $83-144 boardset to its online catalog. The moves reflect the current infatuation of embedded developers, makers, and [...]

Giada is a free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians. How does it work? Just pick up your channel, fill it with samples or MIDI events and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler or yet as a plugin/effect host. Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows for production use and live sets.

It appears some Google developers working on Chrome/Chromium OS have begun working on some improvements to the Linux DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel graphics drivers.

This HowTo is about how to install the openQRM Datacenter Management and Cloud Computing platform version 5.1 on Debian 7 aka Wheezy. It is the starting point for a set of openQRM HowTos explaining different Use-cases with the focus on virtualization, automation and cloud computing.

When we launched our first-ever caption contest last month, we gave readers the simple guideline (not mandate) that our judges would likely favor captions with an open source theme. We were surprised and pleased to see that every reader seemed to take that advice to heart.

The developers of Natural Selection 2 the FPS/RTS hybrid that puts humans against aliens have stated the game should hit Linux this September! This is probably a game I will personally be spending a fair amount of time on, we don't really have a game like it yet (Unvanquished is close but far from finished).

Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music. Run, jump, smash & fly your way through 45+ weird & different levels, with low-gravity, world rotation, giant monsters & swarming missiles.

With only nine days to go now, the Raprio Kickstarter has been a huge success. Thanks to notoriety from the Raspberry Pi foundation, and many open source blogs talking about it, the Raspberry Pi powered robot has over 300% of its funding already.

A short discussion on the possibility of Saint's Row being ported to Linux.

Several years back, Songbird was going to be the newest, coolest, most-awesome music player ever to grace the Linux desktop. Then hings happened, as they often do, and Linux support for Songbird was discontinued. Nightingale is truly everything I want in a music player. It is simple, yet powerful.

The fifth development version of the upcoming GNOME Photos 3.10 photo viewer and organizer application for the GNOME desktop environment has been released a few days ago. GNOME Photos 3.9.5 is a very small bugfix release that replaces GdHeaderBar with GtkHeaderBar, as well as GdStack with GtkStack. It simplifies the PhotosDlnaRenderer (dlna-renderer) initialization, and removes the second close button displayed in the built-in notifications.

The stated purpose of the Raspberry Pi is to provide a simple, inexpensive platform for experimentation. For myself, the US$35 (plus shipping, tariffs, and all that) has paid off in spades, giving me the opportunity to attain that Holy Grail of Linux programming: writing a kernel module.

The developers of Strike Suit Zero tweeted to us to let everyone know that the game is now out of beta and anyone can now purchase it and play.

A new kind of laptop, the SOL, is being designed for the great outdoors and it's powered by sunlight and it will be running Linux.

So, what happens when Super Mario Bros. and Night At The Roxbury collide in outer space at the speed of light? Electronic Super Joy happens. Billed as a “brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music”, Electronic Super Joy does not look to disappoint; delivering retro-platforming, and low-res graphics in the typical indie style that some of us just can’t get enough of.

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