[ad_1] Hello, open gamers! In this week’s edition, we take a look at Intel’s Vulkan Driver progress, the announcement of Hand of Fate 2 for Linux, and Parkitect heading to Steam Early Access. Open gaming roundup for the week of April 3 – 5, 2016 Intel’s Vulkan Driver “very close” to being merged into mesa master According…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight Stephen Walli’s 12 memes to explain open source software, an introduction to Picademy, Matthew Tift’s thoughts on whether Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are good or bad for the web, a question from resident-question-asker-and-answer-seeker Jason Baker on what you’ll use to deploy your next big application, and an interview with Jess Portnoy,…

[ad_1] Bryan Lunduke is well known in free software circles. He’s a writer of books and Network World articles. He co-founded the Linux Action Show and is a co-host of the Bad Voltage podcast. In between hobbies, he has a day job doing marketing for SUSE and serving on the openSUSE board. Perhaps his longest-lasting…

[ad_1] In my article on how to set up a Linux-based music server at home, I mentioned that I have two CuBox-i4 cube computers, using the Volumio music system, serving music in my home. I also mentioned that one of those uses an AudioQuest DragonFly digital-to-analog converter, or DAC, to get the bits out to…

[ad_1] Teaching students to participate in open source communities can be difficult. Teaching teachers to teach students to participate in open source communities can be even more challenging. But for years, Profs. Heidi Ellis (Western New England University) and Greg Hislop (Drexel University) have been doing just that. And with partner Gina Likins of Red…

[ad_1] Which technology will you use to deploy your next big application? The data center is changing. Again. In the olden days, really not all that many years ago, pretty much every server that sat on a rack in a data center was fairly straightforward (if you could call it that). Each machine ran a single…

[ad_1] This year at the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, I’ll be discussing Vitess. Vitess is an open source storage platform for scaling MySQL databases, which is optimized for use in both the cloud and on dedicated hardware. Vitess was created by YouTube in 2011, and is a distributed, cloud-based storage solution that exhibits some…

[ad_1] The workday is winding down. You and your significant other have a dinner reservation, so you’re eager to get home. And that’s when the email arrives. “I need to include one more report in my meeting with the execs tomorrow,” it says. “I’ve attached some spreadsheets. Can you write me something to calculate the…

[ad_1] Open organizations function best as meritocracies—places where, as people in open source communities tend to say, “code talks.” By that, they usually mean that what you do is more important than what you say you can do or will do. In meritocracies, reputation matters more than title. What you’ve proven you can do (and…

[ad_1] A few months ago Google announced a new open source project called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) that promised to “dramatically improve the performance of the mobile Web,” and now Google features AMP content at the top of mobile search results. As the amount of AMP content continues to grow, more questions are being asked…