[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at a few Halloween favorites, the smallest C64 emulator ever made, 12 new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 24 – 30, 2015 Memwa2: smallest C64 emulator Called Memwa2, Staringlizard introduced a new project on Kickstarter, for what…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of the open source news roundup, we take a look at the European Commission funding a supercomputer, Google aiding refugees, Carnegie Mellon University printing arteries and hearts, and more. Open source news roundup for October 24 – 30, 2015 European Commission funds supercomputer to run a billion billion (10^18) operations…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight open source security, problem solving Linux problems, a Raspberry Pi project for hamsters, an artist who loves Linux, and the most popular Python IDEs. Top 5 articles of the week 5. Open source code isn’t a warranty read more [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] I met Alison Chaiken at LinuxCon 2010 in Boston, not long after she joined Nokia as a Meego technical consultant. A few months later, I interviewed her about her role at Nokia and her predictions about where open source technology was headed in 2011. She predicted an increasing role for cameras and microphones in…

[ad_1] Jason is passionate about using technology to make the world more open, from software development to bringing sunlight to local governments. He is particularly interested in data visualization/analysis, DIY/maker culture, simulations/modeling, geospatial technologies, and cloud computing, especially OpenStack. Follow him on Twitter or Google+. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] On my 21st birthday in 1998, I received a phone call from Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation (FSF), to tell me the root password of the GNU Project’s web server. I’d learned about something called UNIX a great many years prior, and in 1993, on a two-week language…

[ad_1] LISA is an annual technical conference for IT operations professionals, organized by The USENIX Association. The first LISA was held back in 1986, and the event still has a reputation for delivering top-notch technical content and an exceptional hallway track. This year, Amy Rich (Mozilla Corporation) and Cory Lueninghoener (Los Alamos National Laboratory) co-chaired…

[ad_1] The new Director of Community at GitHub, Jono Bacon, delivered a keynote at All Things Open this year titled: The new era of community. His talk was largely a call action to do better job of leading, guiding, and engaging in open source communities. Here’s how. The opportunity Jono says we have an opportunity to…

[ad_1] Recently, I drove to the Netherlands for a day to hang out with about half the people who work at Greenpeace International. The meetup actually lasted an entire week, but I only attended Thursday, a day on which newly formed teams gathered to do some bonding and better understand each other’s work. We talked…

[ad_1] Python is everywhere. These days, it seems it powers everything from major websites to desktop utilities to enterprise software. Python has been used to write all, or parts of, popular software projects like dnf/yum, OpenStack, OpenShot, Blender, Calibre, and even the original BitTorrent client. It also happens to be one of my favorite programming…