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[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…

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