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About 2,000 Chinese employees of an iPhone assembly company fought a pitched battle into the early hours of Monday, forcing the huge electronics plant where they work to be shut down.

Comment: I know this is not an open source story, but many electronic gadgets in use around the world are made at Foxconn's factories.

Of course, as you might expect, there's something of a "split" within the tech sector over whether or not there's support for Goodlatte's latest bill. On the one hand, you've got over 200 startups asking for that accelerated review process for questionable patents. At the same time, you've got a coalition of about 100 more stodgy old line businesses (some of whom are in the tech world) arguing that such a review would "undermine many valid patents." Frankly, that's hogwash, as we'll discuss in a bit.

Your open source project is one of thousands, so how do you help its community grow? Start with project management, great documentation, and a road map.

For those curious how the Mesa 3D graphics library started and evolved from there into now a critical piece of the open-source Linux desktop, here's the story...

Steam Machines - Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world. We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014, all of them running SteamOS.

The OpenROV project began shipping version 2.5 of its Linux-based, $849 underwater robot kit. The open source OpenROV 2.5 design advances to a 1GHz BeagleBone Black SBC, scraps the earlier BeagleBone cape in favor of a faster Arduino-compatible controller board design, and boasts improvements to buoyancy, durability, speed, and battery life.

On September 24, the Fedora Project has announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the Alpha release of the upcoming Fedora 20 (Heisenbug) Linux operating system, so we thought it will be a good idea to make a screenshot tour of the KDE Live DVD.

As expected, the GNOME Project has officially announced the GNOME 3.10 desktop environment a few minutes ago, September 25, 2013, though the project's packages were available for download for a couple of days now.

Look out Xbox, PS4, and Wii! The first of Valve's SteamOS Linux-powered gaming system prototypes will soon be in a few lucky users hands. Then, in 2014, multiple vendors will be selling Steam Machine PCs and gaming consoles.

UberStudent is a free linux distribution developd by students with students in mind. It is intended to be a Linux for learners, linux newbies, students and teachers. UberStudent is the perfect Linux distribution for teaching and sharing knowledge with other people at higher levels.

VideoLAN has unleashed a few minutes ago, September 25, the final bits of the highly anticipated VLC 2.1.0 media player for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

AMD announced today the Radeon R9 290X graphics card as their new ultra high-end product...

There's still ongoing work to mainline the open-source exFAT file-system support within the Linux kernel...

The good news this week besides the continued Valve Linux news and other great things this week is the release of GNOME 3.10.

Ever questioned yourself why Linux Desktop is not as widely used as other operating systems such as Windows and Mac? Linux is the one of the most powerful Operating Systems in the world, being open source, and much more. Here's a few points why Linux Desktop may have been left on the shelf.

The VLC 2.1.0 open-source cross-platform media player is now available for download...

Today in Open Source: The decline and fall of Ubuntu? Plus: Fun Fedora facts, and Fedora 20 Alpha download

It was inevitable. Back when the Raspberry Pi was announced, I knew I eventually would use one to power a beer fridge.

Marmalade announced a new version of its cross-platform mobile development SDK that adds support for the Linux-based Tizen operating system. The Tizen support in Marmalade 6.4 will give developers a head-start on porting applications before first Tizen devices ship later this year, says the company.

Not everyone can donate, not everyone will donate, and no one will donate all the time to every project they use. Many developers and free content creators have uttered the words, "if I could get such and such for each download/view". That would at least pay for the servers/equipment.