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I am not really up to speed on Garys Mod but I know it is very popular so I am sure for some people this will be fun news, Gary has stated he is up for the challenge of bringing it to Linux!

Yesterday we pushed a small but significant clean-up to a feature set we've been working on for a couple of years now which is perhaps one of the more interesting things we're doing in Plasma: the idea of "one code base, multiple form factors." The idea is that whether your application is running as a widget on the desktop, docked in a panel, running full screen as part of a mediacenter, running in a touch based environment or as a regular ol' app-in-a-window, much of the code can be shared. We often put the non-graphical bits into shared libraries, and traditional we've built multiple front ends that are optimized for different form factors and input methods which use these libraries.

For those not yet familiar with GEM, the Graphics Execution Manager, that Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver uses for in-kernel memory management, here's a brief guide...

Boxee has just won a big one. Walmart tomorrow will start carrying the Boxee TV at 3,000 locations nationwide. Bloomberg, which was first to report on the news, spoke with Boxee chief Avner Ronen, who said that the Walmart partnership could deliver "a big launch" for his set-top box.

The cause of the bug that was found in Linux's Ext4 filesystem last week has been identified. The main Ext4 developer, Ted Ts'o, has submitted a patch for inclusion in kernel version 3.7

With a release of Enlightenment E17 being very likely at Linuxcon Europe on 5 November, The H spoke to project leader Carsten "Rasterman" Haitzler about how the desktop has been progressing and what are the project goals

So I set out today to rediscover Diaspora, the open social network that was once a Kickstarter phenomenon. While I didn’t spend much time there, I did stumble across something relatively new that I had not yet heard of. UBUNTU.AUDIOCA.ST.

At a glance, the whole Windows 8 cloud-mobile strategy seems like a radical new approach for Microsoft, but when you dig a little deeper, it's really just the same all-Microsoft lock-in strategy it's been using for years. The big difference though is Microsoft is not alone on the playing field anymore and users can choose their devices.

The developers of the open source content management system have warned of multiple security holes that could be exploited to bypass security restrictions or execute arbitrary code. Patches will not be released until 6 November

CodeWeavers is currently giving away copies of the WINE-based CrossOver for Linux and Mac OS X; this is a result of a US presidential election "get out the vote" campaign which apparently failed to meet its goals

Learn how to fix migration problems in your application by using the Migration Advisor tool, which is part of the IBM Software Development Kit (SDK) for PowerLinux.

Want to do more than just touch, swipe, pinch and zoom on your Android smartphone or tablet? Want a powerful shell environment plus FFMpeg, ImageMagick, Sox, OggZ, GNU Awk, Sed, Grep, the LUA scripting language and a whole lot more on that Android phone or tablet without rooting it?

This article explains how to use the nginx HttpLimitReqModule to limit the number of requests for a given session. This is useful, for example, if your site is hammered by a bot doing multiple requests per second and thus increasing your server load. With the HttpLimitReqModule you can define a rate limit, and if a visitor exceeds this rate, he will get a 503 error.

With Ubuntu trying to improve their OpenGL driver support state to push the Linux OS as a platform for gaming, Valve going to be promoting the closed-source NVIDIA and AMD drivers on Linux, and various other challenges still turning up for those trying to use the different Linux OpenGL drivers, here are some new benchmarks comparing the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver against the closed-source AMD Catalyst driver.

Another 6 months, another Ubuntu Developer Summit event for Canonical, where Mark Shuttleworth is always present and keeps his audience captivated.

SeeClickFix has allowed citizens to report damages from Hurricane Sandy. This crowdsourced style of reporting saved time for emergency responders who were overwhelmed with incoming requests. The whole point of SeeClickFix is to report non-emergency issues to local authorities in a transparent forum so that other citizens can view the reported issues, and the community can work together to repair damages.

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Google canceled its New York press event Monday due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast, but that didn't stop it from announcing its new Nexus 10 tablet, along with the Nexus 4 smartphone and Android 4.2, an update to Jelly Bean. A step up in size from the Asus-made Nexus 7, released in July, the Samsung-made Nexus 10 will be available beginning Nov. 13.

Open source can provide schools with high quality, well-functioning IT solutions at low cost, according to a case study done by VTT, a Finnish government research institute. The researchers looked at the use of Linux and other open source applications by the Kasavuoren Secondary School in Kauniainen, a municipality near Helsinki. The case study, available since May 2011, underpins a plea to schools to increase their use of free and open source software. 

At a presentation at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Denmark earlier this week, Valve Software's Drew Bliss told attendees that the open-sourced operating system Linux is more viable than Windows 8 for gaming at this point.