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Wine 1.5.21 has been made available as the first development build of 2013...

It seems that a Linux based Steam console will be out this year an engineer at Valve (Ben Krasnow) has confirmed!

Stuffomatic originally posted about their game Andy's Super Great Park which was previously Windows and Ubuntu only, that is not the case any more they now support other distro's by using a static build!

Valve has released their December Steam statistics that show initial data on Linux client usage...

Here's some information about the C++11 usage within the recently released Qt 5.0 tool-kit...

In TLWIR 51, I talked about how Coreboot might provide a solution to the confusion created by the Secure Boot fiasco. In the Linux Week in Review 52, I’ll talk about the need for a GNU/Linux reference system. In this “gold standard” system, all of the installed hardware would be known to work perfectly with the latest version of the Linux kernel.

And so this situation is starting to get ridiculous - and consumers are, as usual, caught in the middle of it all. Google has just blocked Windows Phone devices from accessing Google Maps on their phones. In addition, it also seems Windows Phone users are now restricted to the basic HTML version of the mobile GMail website.

Individuals wanting to learn and develop their understanding of the Perl programming language have a huge selection of books to choose from. There are hundreds of enlightening Perl books that are available to purchase at reasonable cost. However, given that Perl is an open source programming language, with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands, it is satisfying to see that some authors have made their Perl publications available to download without charge, and released under a freely distributable license.

Netrunner is a Kubuntu-based distro, with some extras of its own. But therein lies the rub, the magic. How do you makeover a distro without adding problems?

A list of new games coming to Linux via Steam!

Ubuntu Phone OS has been unveiled and it has received pretty stellar response so far. Canonical has now proposed system requirements for two different phone types: an entry level Ubuntu phone and another high end Ubuntu superphone.

I became aware some time ago of conky, a minimalistic utility that can display these--and many other--types of helpful information under differing window managers or desktops and, though I'd seen screenshots of it configured to run as a sort of panel, most conky configurations I've come across actually have it display on the desktop background--not something particularly desirable for me since I tend to run applications full-screen on my evilwm desktops. But lately, I somehow came across information about another utility--Xmobar--that can display the sorts of system information I want but which seems to be configured to run mainly as a panel. So I decided to have a go with it. I was able to configure it to my liking fairly easily and decided to offer in this entry a further description of the program and to post the configuration I am using. That information follows.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is seeking input from the software industry about the performance of the patent system. A pair of February "roundtable" events—one in Silicon Valley and the other in New York City—will give members of the public an opportunity to comment on how to improve the quality of "software-related patents."

In the week ending 5 January - News from the 29C3 conference, Ubuntu for phones, Awesome 3.5, Samsung readying a Tizen smartphone, and Nouveau support for GeForce chipsets

Problems have struck Fedora 18 again, causing yet another delay for the distro

This week, we look at how to find gems in your software development log files, Ubuntu smart phones and managing IT on a cruise line.

IPv6 has begun to pick up a bit of steam. What was once just fancy talk of the new Internet has now started to take shape and really become a focal point of the Internet. There are VPS (virtual private server) companies out there now that offer IPv6 only. One of the greatest (and possibly worst) aspects about this is that those with IPv4 only are not able to access such servers.

[d0x3d] is a boardgame designed for informal security education, this is an incredibly fun game that proactively teaches about network integrity and the security of information. Inspired by Forbidden Island, d0x3d! and is released under an open source license. It requires only a small number of people but packs a very powerful lesson. Incorporating it into internet security curriculum provides an enjoyable lesson for sure. This game has proven to be an invaluable teaching tool since people tend to learn better when shown by example, and it’s proven that a real hand on approach has a lasting impression.

The Free Software Foundation Europe is claiming that recent changes to the Google's Android Software Development Kit licensing terms has made the SDK into proprietary software. But if you look closely, that doesn't appear to be the case.

Could one radio be all you ever need for data, cellular calls, wifi and more? Software defined radio holds that promise. Andrew Back looks at how free software is one of the enablers in helping to put the technology into the hands of consumers.