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Thanks to one of the developers of DOTA2 showing a screenshot of his Linux games list on Steam an interesting item is on that list...DOTA2!

CentOS 5.9 leaves users with a warm fuzzy and familiar feeling offering Gnome 2.16 as the primary desktop which is featured in this review. The desktop prospects for this release are not very impressive, but the server capabilities are endless.

Dump Microsoft Office, with its new licensing restrictions, and get LibreOffice instead.

Dell has released an updated XPS 13 laptop that now has an 1920 x 1080 FHD display while shipping Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...

GitHub , the Git-centric project hosting and collaboration company, has announced the open sourcing of Boxen, its management and automation tool used within the company for managing Mac systems. The project, which was originally named "The Setup", was designed to allow developers to go from a new laptop to a system ready to hack the GitHub.com source within thirty minutes with a single command. They then ditched "The Setup" and wrote Boxen to replace it, so that any company could use it.

So, ready to start playing Steam-based games on your Ubuntu system? Well, follow-along with me and away we'll go!

An update on events and happenings at SCALE 11x coming next weekend in Los Angeles.

We're here once again to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 11 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 10, this is a release you cannot miss! There you have it, a shiny distro for your home computer, your laptop and your servers, virtualized or not. Linux Kernel 3.7 with BFQ iosched, GNOME 3.6.2, KDE 4.9.5 (upgraded to 4.10.1 as soon as it is available), Xfce 4.10, LibreOffice 3.6.3 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Complete EFI/UEFI and UEFI SecureBoot support, greatly improved NVIDIA Optimus support through Bumblebee, MATE 1.4 for those missing GNOME 2.x.

With SecureBoot on UEFI support, BumbleBee to handle NVIDIA laptop graphics, bundled MariaDB and Steam for Linux in the repositories, Sabayon 11 has something new for everyone

I have a regional, collaborative philosophy of open data initiatives and municipalities. In North Carolina, the cities of Cary, Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill all share the economic engine that is the Research Triangle Park. They also share the innovation engine of five, top universities. The Triangle just got its next open data participant: the Town of Cary.

The Ubuntu Mobile Version is to be made available to developers this week, and will support the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 smartphones in the first release.

Disabling verification in the Shim bootloader allows Fedora 18 users to avoid all the operational restrictions that Secure Boot would otherwise entail

Managing power consumption in a Datacenter is a key factor in helping keep overall business energy costs down and ensuring servers are running at optimum performance. Overheating can lead to increased costs for cooling and also runs the risk of servers crashing. Opsview server monitoring software can be used to check and alert on server temperature and also the temperature of individual components within a server (Memory, CPU and Hard drives). Thresholds and alerts can be set for when critical temperatures are exceeded, helping to keep hot-running servers in check. This blog post details how to configure Opsview to monitor the temperature of Linux and Unix servers.

IP protection hurting, not helping, US and UK Open ... and Shut While I've never thought John Lennon's Imagine offered a particularly useful prescription for peace, I am starting to wonder if it might not suggest something better than free and open-source software.…

A rather simple patch by Vadim Girlin has led to a reported significant performance improvement within the R600 Gallium3D graphics driver...

When the free vector drawing program Inkscape was first released in late 2003, I realized this software could do some part in helping to reduce the number of people incarcerated in the United States. This worthy goal is still within reach. Let me explain. From 1990 to 2000, I spent quite a bit of time supporting the Adult Literacy Services Division of the D.C. Public Libraries. Then, this division was exploring how technology could help adults learn how to read (among other things). I saw up close how computers could engage these adults, many of whom had learning disabilities.

Anodyne, an amazing Zelda-esque action RPG, has just been released, and you can get in now as part of a promotion at The Pirate Bay.

It's 2013. but the Linux FUD just keeps coming. In the most recent example, security firm Trustwave claimed that Linux kernel vulnerabilities went unpatched more than twice as long as it took to fix unpatched flaws in Windows. This assertion would be a lot more believable if it wasn't coming from a Microsoft partner.

This week on Spark - My Cyborg My Self. As implanted medical devices become more commonplace, they're bringing up lots of issues, especially around security. We ask: who will control the devices in our bodies? Also, should we just accept long, limiting cellphone contracts as just a part of life? Or is there another, very Canadian answer to the problem?

Whether you would like to share your code and data with other people or simply pack up your code in a concise way, the ability of building a custom package in GNU R may come useful to you. In this article we will outline as clearly as possible the process of building a basic package in R. This does not include more advanced knowledge on building R packages. This tutorial, however, will get you started.