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If you love RPG (role-playing games) and you think there's no future for these games on Linux, this post is for you. I’ll show you five new RPG games developed from scratch that run on Penguin: Questverse, Hale, Dawn, Flare and Arakion. Just a warning: these are projects in the making, so none of them are ready to be fully played. But if you like this genre, read on, you won't be disappointed.

The source for Raspberry Pi’s VideoCore drivers has been released, leading the way to a finished Android port and other hacks

The latest version of the Cairo-Dock application switcher for Linux desktops features integration improvements for Ubuntu's Unity desktop and updates the configuration window

Version 4.4 of the open source C++ integrated development environment adds a new welcome screen which the developers hope will help newcomers and provide a faster workflow for existing users

Code-named "Precise", the new edition of Puppy Linux is based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS binary packages and brings a variety of updates to the project's Ubuntu-based distribution

This howto will show you the way to set up OpenVPN to authenticate users against the LinOTP authentication backend. Thus you can bring up your VPN using two factor authentication with different kind of OTP tokens. The interesting part is, that we will also use client certificates, so that the VPN only gets established if the machine has the right client certificate and the user has the right OTP token.

Many Phoronix readers have been writing in over the past day getting excited that it looks like Team Fortress 2 is coming to Linux...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has updated his USBView program, a user-space utility he started more than one decade ago for displaying USB device information under Linux...

Load your system up with classic games from your youth, and do it with style too!

As a warning for those who are normally quick to upgrade to the latest stable vanilla kernel releases, a serious EXT4 data corruption bug worked its way into the stable Linux 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 kernel series...

Gnome Shell 3.7.1 release signifies the beginning of Gnome 3.8, scheduled for March, 27. Gnome 3.8 will be as much exciting as 3.6, with new Apps, better Notification Mechanics, better Cloud Support, a more solid GTK (sync/framing with Mutter) and all the typical improvements to the whole of Gnome software stack.

Gnome University is an effort from Christian Hergert to help people to learn C, involve with Gnome Programming and push the project further. I had referred how nice this project is, some time ago at its initial starting. So I will skip this. There are some cool updates I think is worth to mention, plus for those guys that missed the older post it would be a shame if they want to be part of it but they’re ignoring its existence.

OpenNebula's Twin Jet release further improves the open source cloud computing toolkit's handling of virtual machines under VMware and KVM hypervisors. Support for Amazon EC2 has also been extended

Is Apple losing its mojo ? The iPad mini is clearly a reaction to already attacked market segment (ASUS/Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle). What does it mean for Apple customers ? Shareholders ?

Is this a clear sign that open ecosystems (Android/Linux) increase the innovation of any technology and, as a consequence, will dominate the market ?

Help out with a study of Open Source software usability

Below is a feature comparison chart for the 10 best open-source web hosting control panels of my choosing. My rankings are based on personal experience, usability, and features. There is also a brief description, screenshots, and link to a demo (if available) below. While there are many different types of open-source control panels, this article focuses primarily on control panels designed for web hosting. I hope this helps some of you with your decision of which control panel to use. If there are any other open-source or free web hosting control panels that you think are worth mentioning, leave a comment, and I will make sure to give it an honorable mention:

Thomas Pfeiffer of Plasma Active drops by the Powerbase to talk about Plasma Active, how awesome a project it is, and more!

A substantial number of apps available from Google Play had serious flaws in their Secure Sockets Layer implementations and thus were vulnerable to hack attacks, European researchers found. The team downloaded 13,500 popular free apps to study their use of the SSL or Transport Layer Security protocols, with a particular focus on the apps' vulnerabilities against Man-in-the-Middle attacks.

So, TF2 will be the launch Valve title it appears. Clicky. So, productivity goes down the drain, and there's nothing else to do but spend some time playing again. And then there's L4D2, eventually.

Lennart Poettering has announced the release of the latest version of the open source startup daemon systemd. With version 195, the tool, which is being used by Fedora, openSUSE and several other Linux distributions, has received what Poettering calls a "non-trivial amount of cool new features".