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GNU Backgammon is a fun backgammon game, match and position analysis tool, statistical estimator and random generator based on a neural network. It can serve you as an application to use when you want to kill some minutes of your free time playing the wonderful game of backgammon, or improve your playing strength through game analysis and playing against a very strong engine.

Lost your shell connection? Need multiple shell sessions? You are logged into your remote server via SSH and happily plucking along at your keyboard and then it happens. Suddenly, the characters stop moving and then you get the dreaded “Connection Closed” message. You have just lost your session. You were halfway through some task and now you have to start over. Ugh. Well you can prevent this from happening by using screen. The Linux screen tool can not only save you from disconnection disasters, but it also can increase your productivity by using multiple windows within one SSH session. I use this tool all of the time in our server management work.

At long last, NVIDIA confirms they are working on supporting their multi-GPU Optimus Technology under Linux with their proprietary graphics driver...

Months after Hewlett-Packard originally announced the open source version of webOS, the beta version of the platform is on its way out the door. Friday's release includes two environments for developers. The first is the desktop build, which is boasted to provide "the ideal development environment" for designing the webOS user experience with more features and integrating other open source technologies on the Ubuntu desktop.

Alexandre Julliard announced a few hours ago, August 31st, development version 1.5.12 of the Wine app, which brings assorted bugfixes and improvements.

Although we all are technology enthusiasts and like to spend a significant amount of everyday time in front of our computers, we also don’t forget to stay fit and exercise regular for a healthier body. Unfortunately, there aren’t many sports tracking applications available in Gnome, so chances are that you either using Windows to do this, or you are not tracking your athletic activities at all. The recently updated SportsTracker could be the solution to this.

The OpenEMR community has released version 4.1.1. This new version continues to maintain Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification and has numerous new features including 19 language translations, full support for ICD9, ICD10 and SNOMED coding, support for 5010 billing standards, compatibility with new PHP and MySQL versions and improved performance. OpenEMR 4.1.1 can be downloaded from the OpenEMR Project website at http://www.open-emr.org . Thanks goes to the OpenEMR community for producing this release.

Finally! Canonical implemented disk encryption via the Ubuntu installer for enhanced security in the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.

The beta of the open webOS is now available for testing...

After Fallback Mode another feature is under discussion for Gnome 3.8. Matthias Clasen (who’s core dev of GTK and GLib – his blog) pushed Videos in Gnome Live Three Point Seven Features Page. Gnome Videos (aka Totem) is going to have a massive redesign for the next version.

Not to be outdone by Local Motors and their open source Rally Fighter vehicle, the team at MakerPlane is hard at work on version 1.0 of their open source aircraft. While they are still at least 2 years away from a working prototype, things are moving along briskly and the team is ready to show off some of their results.

Steve Langasek from Canonical announced a few days ago, on August 27th, a proposal to drop the Alternate CD ISO images starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.

Interview with Alexandru Csete, former ESA physicist and current member of the "Copenhagen Suborbitals". Alexandru talks about his professional contributions to the space industry, as well as his open source projects.

There may be a silver lining in the Apple-Samsung case. For the open source community, the verdict was very disturbing. But the decision could spur a movement on patent reform. Right now, we desperately need to make some changes to fix this broken system.

"Release early, release often" is a popular mantra in the open source world. Unfortunately, some developers don't pay enough attention to it – and contribute to the reputation that Linux offers bad support for current hardware.

This week we explore building a secure iPad app, the merits of rock star developers and why CIOs should pay attention to enterprise social software.

With the rise of NoSQL, it's easy to assume that old-school relational databases are simply living out their dinosaur dreams for legacy applications. But a funny thing happened on the way to the SQL cemetery: PostgreSQL became cool again. Yes, PostegreSQL.

In a tweet just hours ago from @TrentOster of BioWare, the first indication of a new Baldur’s Gate for Linux was revealed. The tweet reveals plans to bring Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition to Linux.

If you're a regular reader of this column, you may remember that I recently took a look at Cloud TV's HD Widgets, an app for creating your own elegant, translucent widgets to replace ugly stock widgets that appear to permeate today's Android phones -- Motorola, I'm referring to you mainly.

Google has released an update to the 21.x branch of its Chrome browser, closing a total of nine security holes including three high-severity problems