Borderlands 2 & Borderlands The Pre-Sequel Updated

For Linux gamers, you can now set extra mouse buttons to do things, which is apparently a big thing (I never use mine).

Humble Weekly Bundle: Day of the Devs Arrives with Six Linux Games

A new Humble Weekly Bundle has been released, and it's called Day of the Devs. With one exception, all the games that have been made available also come with Linux support.

Want To Be A Fisherman? Fishing Planet Is Planning A Linux Release

Not the news I expected to hit my inbox this week. Fishing Planet an online fishing game aimed at realism is heading to Linux.

Puzzle Platformer 'Adventures Of Shuggy' Released For Linux On Steam

The game was ported to Linux in time for the Halloween sale on Steam and is a bargain for fans of puzzle platformers.

The Park, A Really Creepy Looking Game Looks Set For A Linux Version

Favorite Halloween games, the smallest C64 emulator, and more open gaming news

Vendetta Online 3D Space Combat Game Gets Halloween Release with Many Android Fixes

Guild Software thought that it will be nice for its Vendetta Online players to receive a new double update of the game, so that they don't get bored on Halloween night.

Guild Software thought that it will be nice for its Vendetta Online players to receive a new double update of the game, so that they don't get bored on Halloween night.

City Builder 'Banished' May See A Linux Release Soon

The Linux Version Of Moebius: Empire Rising Hasn't Been Forgotten

One of the things I do here is contact developers who promised a Linux version of a game which hasn't yet surfaced, and the latest user request for me to check was Moebius: Empire Rising. It took a while to get a response on it, but they did kindly reply and allow me to publish their answer.

Solu is an adorable Linux PC that fits in your pocket, but at a cost

Solu Machines recently launched a Kickstarter campaign with the hopes of releasing a completely new class of device. Dubbed the Solu, the company has prototyped a 4.5-inch cloud-powered computer with a peculiar square form factor. Its touchscreen display allows users to navigate the device with their fingers, like they would a smartphone or tablet.

Solu is a touchscreen, cloud-connected mini PC for use at home and on the go (crowdfunding)

Solu Machines is running a Kickstarter campaign for an unusual type of computer. The Solu is a mini PC that measures about 4.5 inches square and has a touchscreen display, so you can use it sort of like a mobile phone or tablet. But connect it to a monitor and keyboard and the Solu becomes a touchpad that you can use to interact with desktop on a bigger screen.

Fanless Pico-ITXe SBC runs Linux on quad-core Eden X4

VIA’s “EPIA-E900” SBC uses VIA’s own Eden X4 processor, and debuts a reincarnated “Pico-ITXe” form-factor featuring MXM-based PCIe and multi-I/O expansion.

VIA’s new EPIA-E900 single-board computer introduces a second generation of the Pico-ITXe form-factor that VIA demoed at an Embedded Systems Conference back in October 2008. Although this Pico-ITXe re-spin has the same name, it bears little resemblance to the now-defunct Pico-ITXe v1.0. While the original Pico-ITXe footprint measured 100 x 72mm and included self-stacking SUMIT expansion, today’s Pico-ITXe is 38mm longer and expands with a coplanar MXM slot that carries a collection of I/O interfaces plus PCI Express.

First pictures of VLC running on Tizen, Coming Soon to the Tizen Store

VLC is a cross platform open source media player that is created by the VideoLAN Project. It supports many different audio and video compression methods and file formats and Is regarded as one of the best and most versatile media players out there.

Tor Project launches encrypted anonymous chat app to the public

The Tor Project has launched the beta version of Tor Messenger, an easy-to-use encrypted message client for those concerned about their privacy and potential surveillance.

Keeping Open Source Code Safe: 5 Tips for the Enterprise

Many organizations use static analysis security testing (SAST) and dynamic analysis security testing (DAST) for monitoring, but while these tools are excellent for finding bugs in code written by internal developers, they are not effective in detecting known open source vulnerabilities in application code. In fact, open source vulnerabilities are far too complex to be found by these automated tools.

OpenStack Foundation Expands Its Efforts at Tokyo Summit

Alan Clark, chairman of the board at the OpenStack Foundation, discusses the progress made at the OpenStack Summit this week.

Chromium Browser Support On Wayland Continues To Be Developed

Gallium3D VA Improvements Coming To Help Chromium GStreamer Playback

Earlier this year Samsung's Julien Isorce posted VA-API support for Nouveau to better video acceleration for this open-source NVIDIA driver. Since then he's been working on some Gallium3D VA improvements to benefit the use-case of Chromium's GStreamer back-end.

Why Contributing to OpenStack Makes Sense for Vendors

At the OpenStack Summit here, there have been a number of common themes and questions that keep surfacing. Time and again panels are discussing why contributions matter and how Amazon is or isn't the competition.

One such panel session was titled "The OpenStack Orchestra: The Next Wave of OpenStack Specialist Startups," and included executives from Mirantis, Tesora, SwiftStack and PLUMgrid.

OpenStack Tokyo: The Ascendance of Cloud Networking

Networking has always been a part of the open source OpenStack cloud platform, but it has never been more popular, or as exciting as it is now. At the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, one of the hottest topics is networking, as organizations of all sizes turn to the cloud for Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization capabilities.

Why HP Helion public cloud went down for the count

LibreOffice 5.1 to launch bug hunting session

LibreOffice 5.1 Alpha has launched, ready for the weekend. Enthusiasts and community members will be able to grab the software and partake in the first Bug Hunting Session from Friday October 30th to Sunday November 1st. The final build of LibreOffice 5.1 is expected to launch in February next year.

Deweloperzy OpenBSD: Henning Brauer

I’m Henning, not 20 any more, OpenBSD developer since 2002. I architected & wrote large parts of pf, started, architected and wrote large parts of bgpd and ntpd. The imsg & privsep framework I wrote for bgpd is in almost all newer OpenBSD daemons. I also worked a lot in the network stack, including many redesigns. One of the last bigger projects I did was the replacement of the queueing subsystem.

Library of Congress issues limited exemptions to DMCA anti-circumvention provisions but leaves users without full control over their own computing

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) contains provisions penalizing the circumvention of "technological protection measures". These measures are digital jails denying users access to the software and other digital works they possess, preventing them from examining or changing the software on their devices. While such measures are nominally meant to protect copyrighted works, in reality they function as unacceptable restrictions on computer user freedom. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) opposes such Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) systems. The FSF further opposes the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions, and demands that Congress repeal those provisions. Other countries with similar laws should follow suit.

Every three years, the Library of Congress reviews proposals granting limited exemptions from the DMCA's broad ban on users controlling the software and data on devices encumbered with DRM. This flawed process is meant to lessen the DMCA's harm by giving user rights advocates an opportunity to request exemptions allowing circumvention in particular cases. Even when such petitions succeed, the resulting exemptions last only three years, meaning that advocates must repeatedly fight to retain the limited ground they won.

How On-premise, Open Source and SaaS Ecommerce Technologies Handle PCI Compliance –– And How Much It Costs You

Each approach strikes a different balance between your costs, benefits and PCI risks and workload. The table sums up the highlights, the details of which I’ll explain further.

7 Tips for Conducting Effective Cybersecurity Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

QUANTIL adds 30 PCI compliant POPs to their global content delivery network

EU funds supercomputer, Google aids refugees, and more news

PrefabNZ launches open-source design competition

PrefabNZ launches open-source design competition

OGP Summit award for Croatia’s eCitizen portal

Croatia’s e-Građani (eCitizens) project was declared the best European eGovernment services project, in an awards ceremony at the Open Government Partnership Global Summit 2015 in Mexico on Wednesday.

Harvard Law Launches Project To Put Every Court Decision Online For Free

On Thursday, Harvard Law School announced its Free the Law project, teaming up with a company called Ravel to scan all federal court decisions and all state court decisions, and then place them all online for free. This is pretty huge. While some courts now release most decisions as freely available PDFs, many federal courts still have them hidden behind the ridiculous PACER system, and state court decisions are totally hit or miss. And, of course, tons of historical cases are completely buried. While there are some giant companies like Westlaw and LexisNexis that provide lawyers access to decisions, those cost a ton -- and the public is left out.

U.S. Department Of Education Launches Campaign To Encourage Schools To #GoOpen With Educational Resources

Dept. of Ed. Proposes Making Federally Funded Resources Free

The Department of Education has launched #GoOpen, a campaign to encourage schools to use open educational resources (OER). To add force to the hashtag, the Department proposed new regulation that any tool developed with its federal grant funds will be required to have an open license, would which allow schools to use and modify those resources for free.

Open Ed. Resources Would Get Boost Under Education Department Proposal

This laptop is open source from the hardware up

A pair of engineers in Singapore, Andrew "Bunny" Huang and Sean Cross, have developed a working laptop which was designed to be completely open sourced, with no proprietary drivers or software of any kind. The Novena laptop is powered by a Cortex A9 and an FPGA and runs Debian, even communications are handled by a software-defined radio board. This is more of a proof of concept than a marketable machine but the links at The Register will take you to the details on how you could build one yourself. Even the bezel is open source and modifiable, it is a laptop with an upgradable screen!

How to build a totally open computer from the CPU to the desktop

PulseAudio 7.1 Released With Better Xonar Sound Card Support

PulseAudio 7.1 Sound Server Released with Better Support for Xonar Cards

Arun Raghavan from the PulseAudio project has had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download and testing of the first point release of the PulseAudio 7 open-source sound server.

GStreamer 1.6.1 Open Source Multimedia Framework Has Numerous Improvements

The developers of the open source GStreamer multimedia framework have announced a few hours ago the release and immediate availability for download of the first maintenance version of the GStreamer 1.6 series.

denemo @ Savannah: Version 2.0 is out

FreeIPMI 1.4.11 Released

MPV 0.12.0 Video Player Changes the Default Format for youtube-dl, Supports Wayland

The developers of the open source, MPlayer-based MPV video player software have announced the release and immediate availability for download of version 0.12.0.

Veeam Announces Back Up and Replication Support for Linux Machines

If you are a systems administrator and you are tasked with ensuring your systems have a backup and replication process, Veeam is likely in your arsenal of tools.

Vivaldi Web Browser Gets Halloween Release, Improves Tabs Unstacking on Restart

The Vivaldi developers, through Olafur Arnason and Ruarí Ødegaard, have announced the release of two consecutive Snapshots of the upcoming Vivaldi web browser for all supported operating systems.