Category: OpenSource

  • Cocos2d update, Amazon Fire TV gaming, pick of the week, and more gaming news

    [ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at updates for Cocos2d and xoreos game engines, porting Shovel Knight to Amazon Fire TV, and more. Open gaming roundup for September 26 – October 2, 2015 Live operations platform update for Cocos2d game engine Chukong Technologies is launching what is called SDKBOX…

  • Zulip chat from Dropbox, Linux Foundation report, FCC rules, and more news

    [ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Dropbox’s open source chat tool Zulip, the FCC comments on open source routers, Linux Foundation’s report that open source code is worth billions, and more. Open source news for September 27 to October 2, 2015 Dropbox’s Zulip chat app…

  • Opensource.com October preview

    [ad_1] October is shaping up to be our Most Open Month for several reasons. First, we’re gearing up for All Things Open 2015 (ATO), which will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 19 – 20. In a special All Things Open exclusive preview and discount newsletter we sent out yesterday, we offered subscribers a…

  • All Things Open exclusive preview and discount

    [ad_1] Join us in Raleigh, North Carolina, from October 19 – 20 at All Things Open 2015. You can also enter for a chance to win a free pass to All Things Open 2015. Highlights Keynote preview: Modest CEO on open source and acquisition by PayPal Preview the Monday afternoon keynote in our interview with…

  • Top 5: Red Hat CEO Linux story, LibreOffice 5 years, Head of Open Source at Twitter, and more

    [ad_1] In this week’s Friday Top 5, we highlight… An interview with Tilde’s Leah Silber on burn out at work An interview with longtime Linux developer Hans de Goede who will review the $9 mini computer C.H.I.P. at LinuxCon Europe this year Celebrating 5 years of LibreOffice with co-founder Italo Vignoli Rikki Endsley’s exclusive interview…

  • A look at Battle for Wesnoth's current game development strategy

    [ad_1] I had my first run-in with the turn-based, Linux strategy game Battle for Wesnoth a few years ago. It was not long after discovering open source software, and I was incredibly impressed that a small group of developers could create such an excellent game for free. Discovering this along with Linux and the numerous…

  • Seize the opportunity to explain open source

    [ad_1] Kids have an insatiable appetite for knowledge. I would estimate that all of us with children have had them go through a phase of asking “Why?” constantly. In truth, it often comes at the most inconvenient moment for a parent; like when the world is literally going to explode unless your child puts down…

  • If Drupal were a band it would be Rush

    [ad_1] Toronto’s Colan Schwartz is a self-employed enterprise web architect with a career that exemplifies the open source ethic. Aside from some MS-DOS, Windows 95, and NT use in his early days—all on the same box, no less—adding GNU/Linux to the mix sealed the FOSS deal. For Schwartz, staying 100% Linux has followed the same…

  • In Open Org book club, we let the sparks fly

    [ad_1] Our week discussing the productive power of friction slid by too quickly. I began Week 5 of the Open Organization book club with a few thoughts on the ways open organizations reframe and harness friction’s capacity for producing forward movement. In “Letting the Sparks Fly,” The Open Organization’s fifth chapter, Jim Whitehurst directs readers’…

  • Most Open Month highlights new contributors, kicks off My Open Source Story series

    [ad_1] In October, we kick off our new My Open Source Story series and highlight first-time Opensource.com contributors. If you’re reading this and have thought about writing for us before, now’s your time—share your open source story, your Linux story, or write about the open source project you are working on or using to reach…