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GarageGames, maker of the Torque 3D game engine, has revealed its plans to open source its software. The company will make its engine available under the MIT License and will shift its focus to providing support, training and consulting for the users of the software, and will create custom applications using the engine as part of that process.

Canonical published a few minutes ago, September 12th, the top 10 app downloads for August 2012, from Ubuntu Software Center.

Very cool forum post by an openSUSE user who deployed openSUSE at the high school he works at. In addition to the forum post here is a link to pictures of openSUSE in use at the school. pics

Every system administrator I know develops in time the habit of putting together a toolbox where, as time passes, many useful pieces of software get added up, as the recurrent need arises. Please do not imagine this in the most classical of the sense, as this is not about a carpenter's toolkit, nor a mechanic's toolbox. It usually is a CD portfolio with live CDs, installable most-used distributions, vendor-specific tools and whatever not. Of the (indispensable) live CDs, one usually sees in the aforementioned toolbox a disk cloning item. What does it do?

Mozillux 12.09.1 is released. Mozillux is a live Linux distribution designed to provide Mozilla software, such as Firefox and Thunderbird, to the end user without requiring any installation.

Uses Lego and Debian

The team, led by Professor Simon Cox, consisted of Richard Boardman, Andy Everett, Steven Johnston, Gereon Kaiping, Neil O'Brien, Mark Scott and Oz Parchment, along with Professor Cox's son James Cox (aged 6) who provided specialist support on Lego and system testing.

'There is no single simple issue to fix' Open source bigwigs like Alan Cox, Miguel De Icaza, and Linus Torvalds can bicker all they want, says GNOME hacker Michael Meeks, but changing developer culture won't do a thing to attract more consumers to the Linux desktop.…

Canonical founder throwing weight behind open source exabyte-scale file system.

The Ubuntu development team uploaded earlier today a new default wallpaper for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.

Yesterday the public beta of Steam Big Picture Mode was started. With the optimization for using with TV and with a sophisticated control system, Steam and thus the PC platform enters to compete with game consoles. Of course, all games out of the Steam library can be used in the Big Picture Mode and it is still possible to use mouse and keyboard controllers. Have not we been waiting for a PC-console for years? Now it's here:

How do the Linux and open source communities define the open cloud? Our Leaders of the Open Cloud series posed this key question, along with many others, to industry heavyweights in the 10 weeks leading up to the CloudOpen conference in San Diego last month. Here, we’ve distilled their answers into a slideshow to illustrate the range of participants and viewpoints as well as some areas of contention.

With Unity 2D being abandoned and only providing Unity + Compiz in Ubuntu 12.10 as the default desktop, the out-of-the-box experience for low-powered ARM hardware on the stock Ubuntu desktop is a mess. Last month the decision was made by Canonical to do away with Unity 2D now that LLVMpipe is coming into shape as a decent Gallium3D software rasterizer inside Mesa. LLVMpipe has been talked about since its very early days on Phoronix for running OpenGL on the CPU. With this being the default software fallback now in order to support Compiz, rather than going with the Qt-based Unity 2D, it's okay for x86 users.

The latest one is called the Cubieboard. Compared to the Raspberry Pi, Cubieboard is loaded.

Each book contains unique interviews with developers, book authors, startups, bloggers and notable people from the free/libre and open source scientific software community. In these interviews leaders of the FLOSS scientific software community share their thoughts, their stories and their most useful resources.

we were lucky enough to score an exclusive interview with former Project Leader of the OpenIndiana, Alasdair Lumsden. Since Alasdair’s resignation, it has not only sparked discussion on the reasons of Alasdair’s resignation from OpenIndiana, but also generated a lot of interesting discussion on development and the future of OpenIndiana.

Interview - GNOME release manager Frederic Peters shares insight into the excitement surrounding the GNOME project…

Linux has come on leaps and bounds in recent years. Many companies are now thinking about making the move to Linux, but the lack of compatible software is still proving a barrier. But is it really all that difficult? For example, what kinds of solutions exist for accounting on Linux?

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the sponsor of Ubuntu, has invested $1 million in Inktank, the company that provides commercial support for the open source Ceph distributed storage system. The investment comes in the form of a "convertible note" and will be used to fund the expansion of the company.

The Ubuntu One development team proudly announced earlier today, September 11th, that a new version of their famous Ubuntu One Music Store is now available.

Poland's Invisible Things Lab has launched its Linux-based desktop OS that uses sandboxed security.