[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at GPUOpen, Mad Max on Linux speculation, and new games out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for January 30 – February 5, 2016 Linux community buzzing over GPUOpen release The Linux community was abuzz over the release of GPUOpen, a set of software…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight Krusader Linux file manager, an intro to Kubernetes, an interview on the new browser Brave, a video on cluster computing with Ansible and Raspberry Pi, and projects to get you started with your Raspberry Pi. Plus, an honorable mention! Top 5 articles of the week 5. Getting started with…

[ad_1] Open source won and, over the past five years or so, we have been seeing the acceleration of a new wave of open source projects that got their starts in corporations. This comes with a set of new challenges, as new corporate participants struggle with some of the realities. Folks generally understand that foundations…

[ad_1] On January 15, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians. First, what is the state of…

[ad_1] I’ve loved computing since my school days. I started learning on BBC Micro computers in the mid-’90s, but I didn’t have the luxury of owning a computer until I was 22. Today, Linux and open source software are my primary passions. Discovering Linux It was in 2003—during my engineering college days—when my Linux journey began.…

[ad_1] Developing and maintaining relationships with customers can be a challenge. But it’s an essential task for businesses’ growth and survival. In order to maintain those relationships, a CRM system is a must-have. And CRM systems are one area in which open source shines brightly. When we first took a look at the top open source CRM systems back…

[ad_1] “Open source code is problematic because anonymous people on the Internet design it, and ‘holes’ are not fixed by vendor updates.” Is this FUD from some proprietary software behemoth? No, it’s a quote from a recent decision made by a California Court of Appeal. As attorney Evan Brown noted, 21st Capital Corp. v. Onodi Tooling &…

[ad_1] Too often web apps and the frameworks they’re built on support only the privileged—the always-online users and development teams with both front-end and back-end expertise. In open source, this support of privilege is usually reflected in the contributor community. Hoodie, a new web app architecture, does things a little differently. Simply put, Hoodie is…

[ad_1] A few weeks ago, I read Jim Whitehurst’s call to ban the one-hour meeting in the Time article 25 Daily Habits That Will Make You More Successful. Jim recommended making 30 minutes the default meeting length. I made this change myself last summer, when I saw my calendar filling up with more meetings than…

[ad_1] I just turned 13 years old, and I am in 7th grade at Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham, North Carolina. I heard about the Kramden Institute from my dad, who is an avid volunteer there. Kramden is a non-profit organization that refurbishes computers to be awarded to underprivileged children who have been nominated by their teachers.…