Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Welcomes Unity Fans with New Mutiny Layout, Ships with Snaps

Ubuntu MATE 17.10 was released today as part of today's Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system, bringing six month's worth of improvements and new features for fans of the MATE desktop environment.

MongoDB's successful IPO reflects its differences with traditional open source

MongoDB had a good first day of trading with share prices popping roughly 25% over their opening. As the latest big data platform company to IPO, Mongo's fortunes are being compared and equated to Cloudera and Hortonworks. As upstarts, each is in a race to grow business while whittling down the red ink. Cloudera and Hortonworks are a bit further along this path as their operating losses have begun trending downward - but that happened only after those companies went public.

today's leftovers

• AMD EPYC 7351P Linux Performance: 16 Core / 32 Thread Server CPU For ~$750

  Earlier this week we looked at the EPYC 7251 Linux performance as AMD's lowest-cost server CPU from this latest generation of Zen-based processors. That eight core / sixteen thread CPU packed a nice amount of performance considering its hitting the $500 price point, but if you are looking for a single socket system and have $750 USD to lay out on a CPU, the AMD EPYC 7351P packs in even more value.

• Xenomarine, the hardcore, sci-fi dungeon crawling roguelike releases on Steam this month

  On the look out for a new roguelike? Xenomarine [Official Site], a hardcore, sci-fi dungeon crawling roguelike is heading to Steam on October 25th with Linux support. Note: It's currently in-development, so it will be in Early Access.

• The Talos Principle VR is now live with a discount for owners of the original

• Crazy cyberpunk horror game 'observer' is coming to Linux on October 24th

  We've had it confirmed to us directly today from Aspyr Media that observer [Steam, Official Site] is going to release for Linux next week on October 24th.

• List of GNOME-related projects fundraisers

  I think it’s useful to have a list of projects fundraisers in GNOME or at least GNOME-related. Ideally it would be nice to have that list on the gnome.org website, it looks to me an obvious thing to do, but after a discussion on the GNOME foundation-list, it seems unlikely to happen anytime soon. So I’ve created this wiki page in the meantime. It explains the difference with donations made to the GNOME Foundation, and provides a list of individual projects fundraisers.

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