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The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii are nearing their end. As powerful as they have been in the living room, gamers want more. They want better graphics, new user experiences, and more mobility, as much as those things can be at odds with one another. A new wave of game consoles is rising to meet some of those challenges, but perhaps not all: the Nintendo Wii U doesn’t seem to be that much more powerful than an Xbox 360, and the next Xbox and PlayStation are rumored to use what amounts to mid-range PC hardware in order to save costs.

The OpenStreetMap community has announced that it will host its second global "mapathon" during the weekend of 23–25 November; this time, the event is code-named "Operation Cowboy" and will focus on the US. Concentrating on "armchair mapping", aerial images will be surveyed at local meetings, as well as from home. Based on these surveys, the project will then complement its map material for the US. The campaign has its own official Twitter account and hash tag: #OPC2012.

More than any other program, Samba allows Linux desktops to exist in the world of Windows. In fact, Samba historically has allowed Linux to live secretly in the server room as well. It's possible to emulate a Primary Domain Controller from your Linux server, and Windows machines can't tell the difference. The problem is that Microsoft no longer uses PDCs and has turned to Active Directory.

It's on the way. Developers are working on packages based on a Windows version of Firefox through Wine.

A bike share program that was supposed to be launched last summer in New York City has come to a halt due to software related issues. I can't help but think that if the software was open source, these problems would have been easily resolved, elimating worrisome delays.

If you looking for an alternative to public IM and VOIP services like Skype and want to create a private secure IM / VOIP network, this guide is for you.

Steam is a great source for any gamer. It is a place that will allow you to try out and enjoy many of the more popular video games that are available on the market today. Steam Greenlight will allow you to vote on games that you would like to see become available. It is a great system for gamers; they do not have to drop $50 to purchase every game off the shelf. They can simply join Steam and enjoy the most popular ones at a reduced price.

On November 15, Francesco Muriana has the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the Ubuntu Builder 2.3.1 open source application.

Following last month's Btrfs file-system tuning benchmarks, in this article are a similar set of tests when stressing the EXT4 file-system with its various performance-related mount options. Here are a number of EXT4 benchmarks from Ubuntu 12.10 with different mount option configurations.

Great news! 5 games have been added to the Humble Bundle for Android #4!

In a statement on her blog, Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, said that the organisation has its sights firmly set on the mobile space for 2013. The goal is to duplicate the organisation's success with Firefox on the desktop on mobile phones and tablets. "We’re building these products now. We have the financial resources to support these efforts," Baker said. The product in question is Firefox OS, which Mozilla's developers have been working on for the better part of a year. Since Mozilla has had difficulty in bringing full versions of Firefox to iOS, Windows Phone and Windows 8 on tablets, it is now building its own ecosystem based on web technologies including HTML5 and JavaScript.

Netflix video streaming is now available on Linux through the use of Wine. When running a specially patched version of Wine in conjunction with the Microsoft Windows versions of Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight, Netflix can now do Internet video streaming to the Linux desktop...

This tutorial shows how to get DKIM working on a CentOS box running Postfix using OpenDKIM. I'll also cover some simple troubleshooting tips and advice for future upgrades on your OpenDKIM installation.

CAINE is a well-known specialised Linux distribution focusing on penetration testing. With its latest 3.0 release, it updates itself to the Ubuntu 12.04 base and adds a host of new tools

Project Leader Robyn Bergeron has announced the results of the naming of version 19 of the popular Linux distribution. The successor to Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" will be called "Schrödinger's Cat"

Learning how to wrap GTK+ C modules for use in Python will enable you to use a C-coded GObject in Python whenever you like, whether or not you're especially proficient in C.

It generally worked fine, but the unreliability of both Okular and the shutdown process means that better KDE distributions for long-term work use can be found.

06/11/2012. A historic day. Valve releases his first Steam Linux Client ever.

Although Samsung's thin and lightweight Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets have dominated the 10-inch Android tablet market for the past 18 months, that's about to change with new entrants from both Lenovo and Google. DeviceGuru reviewed Lenovo's IdeaTab S2110, which optionally morphs into a laptop-like hybrid. How did it compare?

Android developers often complain about fragmentation of the platform, and Google apparently agrees – so much so that it's written an anti-fragmentation clause into the license terms of the latest Android SDK (software development kit). Under Section 3.4 of Google's new terms and conditions, "You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK."