[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at two game sales, AMD GPU open source drivers, new open source game hardware, and more! Open gaming roundup for November 21 – 27, 2015 Feral Interactive and Steam sales Both Feral Interactive and Steam are having sales. If you are looking to…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a new pan-European open data portal by the European Commission, WordPress.com going open source, and more! Open source news roundup for November 21 – 27, 2015 Portal brings together open data from across Europe Matthew Broersma wrote for TechWeek…

[ad_1] In this week’s top 5 articles of the week, we highlight Drupal-based farmOS, Astroblend for visualizing astrophysics data, the goals of Qora cryptocurrency, Mozilla’s Ben Kerensa shares his open source story, and the 2015 Open Recipe Collection. Check out our 14 gifts for the holidays! Top 5 articles of the week 5. 9 tasty…

[ad_1] Back in 2013, some contributors to the Fedora project were puzzled. They’d been issued digital badges like Paranoid Panda, Curious Penguin, and Master Editor but weren’t sure why. Master Editor seemed relatively straightforward to understand—after all, Fedora contributors are known for their edits to the wiki—but what were the first two all about? Upon…

[ad_1] Historians and detectives share many similarities: their investigations are laborious and focused on small details. Bits of information are often murky, contradictory, and complex. Peoples’ names might be spelled differently across different sources, especially if more than one language is involved. There’s also a time component—they need to know where every possible culprit was…

[ad_1] Starting today, shops and newsagents are stocking a computer magazine called The MagPi, and as a world’s first, this magazine comes with a free computer—literally stuck to the front cover. It’s the newest Raspberry Pi release, called Pi Zero. This computer also goes on sale around the world for just $5. Pi Zero is…

[ad_1] Here I am, almost 20 years into my own crazy open source story, and it shows no sign of abating. And my problem is that I like to know how things work and to fix things. I started fixing TVs, ours and the neighbors’, when I was nine or 10. In those days every…

[ad_1] In the past year, the open source community has helped publish more than 1,000 articles on Opensource.com. Thank you. Thank you to our readers and open source community members who visit the site, share personal and professional experiences, and participate in online and in-person discussions. Thank you to our writers and columnists for collecting,…

[ad_1] My open source story started in high school as a student. I always considered myself to be a hacker—not the malicious type, but the curious type who liked to tinker with code and hardware. My first encounter with open source was in 2001 when I installed my first Linux distro, Lindows. Of course, I…

[ad_1] Article co-written by Jeffrey Osier-Mixon and Dawn Foster What do a few geeks do when they find themselves on the way to Dublin for LinuxCon Europe? They make a side trip to Bletchley Park, of course. Seeing the place where Alan Turing, father of computer science, broke the German Nazi Enigma codes in the…