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"It has taken longer than most anyone would have anticipated, but the fact remains that Valve is in fact creating a native Linux port of their Steam game distribution client and of the Source Engine to run natively on Linux," read the announcement on Phoronix on Wednesday. Think gaming is trivial? Think again: In a matter of seconds, the topic was on fire on Slashdot and throughout the Linux blogosphere.

Canonical announced its Ubuntu Cloud Summit event, which will take place next week on May 8th, 2012, in Oakland, California, USA.

Operating systems are like wine: They hopefully increase in quality as they age, and — unless you’re a Beaujolais nouveau fan — you often don’t want to drink one that hasn’t yet had at least a little time to mature. But the fact that Ubuntu 12.04 was released only days ago isn’t stopping a number of PC vendors from shipping the new release on their hardware already. Here’s a look at the status of Ubuntu 12.04 and OEMs.

When Facebook engineers faced a monumental monitoring problem, they went to work on it themselves and developed a custom tool to help them sift through the monstrous data store. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be plans to open source it.

Enhance your Ubuntu system configuration controls with Ubuntu Tweak

In its signature style Microsoft has settled the patent dispute with Barnes & Noble. The company was losing the legal fight against Barnes & Noble and a court decision certainly was going to trash Microsoft's strategy of ripping Android players over bogus patents.

TV-Maxe is an application that you can use to watch TV stations online, through a P2P technology called SopCast. It comes with two TV channel lists by default: one international and one Romanian, but more unofficial lists are available on its wiki (for France, Hungary, United Kingdom, Danmark, Spain, Russia and Ukraine).

The Ubuntu Wikipedia Lens is a very useful Unity Launcher plugin that allows users to search Wikipedia directly from Unity Dash.

In an exclusive interview with Muktware Bryan Che, Senior Director (Product Management and Marketing for the Cloud Business Unit), Red Hat, explains what OpenShift is all about. We also talked about Red Hat's cloud strategy.

When Microsoft made an investment today in the Barnes and Noble Nook, at the very least, the Android tablet market just got a little more entertaining -- and Microsoft got to take on all kinds of demons from Apple to Google to Amazon.com -- an even open source. Certainly great technology theater if nothing else.

The Introduction says the goal of the book is “to help you improve your understanding of device drivers under FreeBSD”. OK, that is exactly what I wanted to do as I am currently working on several projects that use FreeBSD at deeper levels of understanding.

Few web video standards are truly open or free, and the major players have no interest in pushing them, says Richard Hillesley…

This time we have for you ant interview with Heino Prinz, a biochemist and author of the book Numerical Methods for the Life Scientist: Binding and Enzyme Kinetics Calculated with GNU Octave and MATLAB. Heino tells us about himself, how the book came to be and who will benefit from it. Enjoy the interview and check out the book!

Wheels fall off 'one rogue engineer' claim Google knew its Street View cars were slurping personal data from private Wi-Fi routers for three years before the story broke in April 2010.…

This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to the Qmail mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012. By using AVG Antivirus with your Qmail mail server, you can ensure virus-free inboxes.

After more than one year of hard work, the Xfce development team proudly announced a couple of days ago, on April 28th, the immediate availability for download of the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment.

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is SlimIt. I previously wrote about the minification of CSS files, the Slimit package is used for minification of Javascript files.

Ubuntu Builder allows you to create your own Ubuntu based distribution in clicks. You are free to choose your own desktop environment, window manager, packages etc, and customize Ubuntu the way you want.

Businesses that want to transition to hosted virtual or cloud-based technology should listen to this podcast.

The Linux 3.4-rc5 kernel was released on Sunday with an increased number of changes over its predecessor, which Linus Torvalds describes as annoying, but it shouldn't be "hugely scary" for those testing it out...