The new GOG profile system is out, looks quite slick

DRM free store GOG has just released their new profile system and it's surprisingly slick to look at.

Brutal Hexen-inspired FPS 'Apocryph' is planning to release on April 27th

Remember Apocryph? The brutal FPS inspired by the likes of Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and so on. Much like its inspiration, it's set in a brutal dark fantasy world, one that you're going to turn red. Well the developer has announced that they're aiming for an April 27th release!

Six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' to release May 31st

Overload, the fantastic six-degree-of-freedom shooter from the creators of Descent is due to officially release May 31st with full Linux support.

Paradox has announced Stellaris: Distant Stars, a new story pack

Space is about to get bigger again, as Paradox has announced Stellaris: Distant Stars, a new story pack for the space grand strategy game. I've said many times they needed more overall content and they've gradually delivered bit by bit. This has me quite excited, as the last big expansion was pretty damn fun to play around with.

Microsoft picks Linux over Windows for IoT cloud connectivity and security product Azure Sphere [Ed: No, that still requires Windows and Microsoft subscription/surveillance among other Microsoft proprietary software. They just (mis)use the brand "Linux" to promote words like "Azure" with "security". A sort of googlebombing of many terms that are hoping to latch onto.]

gksu Removed From Ubuntu, Here’s What You Can Use Instead

gksu is deprecated. It is removed from Debian, Ubuntu 18.04 and other newer Linux distribution version. You can achieve the gksu functionality with gvfs admin backend. Here’s how to do that. I am exploring Ubuntu 18.04 these days. And when I was trying to suppress the Ubuntu crash report, I tried to use a command with gksu.

[Slackware] MSB and CSB Mass Rebuilt

Fedora 28 : The OpenShot video editor.

Fedora Infrastructure Hackfest 2018 Recap

Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 93 - Security flaws in beep and patch, how did we get here?

How I accidentally wrote a Wikipedia page on a layover in Dublin

A most unusual but wonderful experience happened to me recently on a return trip from Europe to the United States. A series of heavy Nor'easters hit the U.S. East Coast over the last couple weeks, one of which coincided with my trip back to Rochester, NY. While we didn’t have flooding, we had a lot of snow. A lot of snow means canceled flights. As I made my way through border control in Dublin, Ireland on March 7, I discovered my connection to New York City would likely be canceled. A meander from baggage claim to the check-in desk confirmed this. Fortunately, Aer Lingus had no issue putting me up in a hotel overnight, with dinner and breakfast, so that I could catch the next flight to New York the following day.

When should you open source your software?

It’s 20 years this this since the term ‘Open Source’ was coined. In that time the movement for free and open software has gone from a niche to a common method of distribution and a normal way of operating for businesses. Major technology shifts are now driven by open source technologies: Big Data (Hadoop, Spark), AI (TensorFlow, Caffe), and Containers (Docker, Kubernetes) are all open projects. Massive companies including Google, Facebook, and even Lyft regularly release Open Source tools for the world to use. Microsoft – whose former CEO once described Linux as a cancer – now embraces the concept.

GNU Parallel 20180422 ('Tiangong-1') released

Quote of the month: Today I discovered GNU Parallel, and I don’t know what to do with all this spare time. --Ryan Booker

Devhelp news

For more context, I started to contribute to Devhelp in 2015 to fix some annoying bugs (it’s an application that I use almost every day). Then I got hooked, I contributed more, became a co-maintainer last year, etc. Devhelp is a nice little project, I would like it to be better known and used more outside of GNOME development, for example for the Linux kernel now that they have a good API documentation infrastructure (it’s just a matter of generating *.devhelp2 index files alongside the HTML pages).