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If you were hoping you would be able to run your favorite Linux distribution on Microsoft's new Surface Tablet, it doesn't look like it will be an easy task to accomplish...

Is it possible that the recent attempts to push secure boot onto computer users was a response to the growing hardware vendor support for coreboot back in 2011? This is only speculation on my part, but I suspect that this might be the case. Coreboot is a badly need solution that can restore freedom to PC users while updating the outdated PC BIOS technology.

Vadim Girlin has published a new Mesa branch that integrates a shader disassembler and ISA information tables within the AMD R600 Gallium3D graphics driver...

Indie game Knytt Underground is now available for Linux. The game is sequel to the massively popular Knytt and Knytt Stories game series developed by Nifflas' Games.

Earlier this week when multi-process support was added to the HTML5 back-end in GTK+, a TODO list was also created that hints at some of the features being looked at for the "Broadway" back-end...

A Steam developer johnv has written on the Steam Linux Group forum asking for feedback on package install changes.

Nine years after the project was conceived, ResidualVM saw its first stable release last week...

While at the start of every year there's always individuals making predictions about "the year of the Linux desktop", for 2013 at least it looks like it will actually be the year of gaming on Linux. Everything is coming together quite nicely to make 2013 the most exciting year ever for Linux gaming...

FreeDOS, the open-source DOS operating system, is still alive and seeing activity around the GPL-licensed project though the FreeDOS SVN code repository hasn't seen any activity in nearly one year...

After pessimistic views regarding the health of the GTK+ tool-kit project were recently shared on IRC, Alberto Ruiz took it upon himself to create some statistics about the development of this critical component to GNOME to show in fact things aren't entirely bleak...

The focus of this article is to select some of the finest Python books which are available to download for free. The vast majority of the books featured here can also be freely distributed to others.

The Free Software Foundation is now soliciting donations and signatures for a pledge in hopes that it can stop UEFI SecureBoot and other "restricted boot" systems from becoming too common...

This week's KDE Commit-Digest starts with two stories: insights about Google Code-In work on KDE-PIM and interesting recent events in the spotlight. Of course, there is also a summary of development effort:

Automake 1.13 was released on Friday with a number of major changes to this component of the GNU build system. With Automake 1.14, there's already a number of additional changes being considered...

Just received an email from Google confirming that Google Health has now been officially shutdown. Google announced in June 2011 that Google Health and Google Power were slated to be retired. While this may seem like old news, the deadline for downloading your data is Jan 1 2013. If you used this app in the past and have not downloaded your information, be sure to download your data before the 1st.

Broletto - Piazza Loggia 2012 is available. Broletto GNU/Linux is an Italian Debian-based distribution featuring the LXDE desktop.

A new release on Desura - Organ Trail: Director's Cut is a retro zombie survival game made with Unity3D.

The developers of the toolkit for developing concurrent, distributed event-driven applications in Java or Scala, Akka, have announced the release of Akka 2.1 which adds experimental cluster support to the toolkit.

Indie physics platformers are a dime a dozen these days, and I can not help but find it somewhat peculiar that in a market...

More than three years after its last major release, the developers of awesome have released version 3.5 of their dynamic tiling window manager. The new version, code-named "Last Christmas", includes a large amount of changes, many of which are internal and will not be noticed by users.