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New info for you all about Steam for Linux!

In an opinion piece for Wired, Richard Stallman has proposed an approach to change the US patent system in a way that, he believes, would make software patents (or "computational idea patents", as he calls them) less of an issue for developers of free and open source software.

HP has increased its support for the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization that promotes the growth and development of the free Linux operating system, by upping its membership level from Gold to Platinum status. The new membership level, which requires HP to pay $500,000 in annual dues to the Foundation, puts the PC maker in rarified company. Only Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, and Samsung also participate at the Platinum level.

Within two years, the private cloud will sit at the same level as other server technologies and within five, it will become dominant within enterprises. Thats according to an IDC white paper published by the Linux Foundation today.

The new version of the Amazon PHP SDK for Amazon Web Services is a complete reworking of the previous SDK, written from scratch in modern PHP and designed to be faster, robuster and much easier to work with

An analysis of more than 400,000 apps in the Google Play store has revealed that more than 100,000 of them pose a potential security risk to their users. The analysis of the Android apps released last week by cyber security vendor Bit9 examined the security permissions requested by the programs.

The organisers of the FOSDEM 2013 conference in Brussels have published a list of the "devrooms" that will be held at the event. Devrooms are organised by conference attendees and are day-long mini-conferences on a particular topic that are allocated their own space within the larger event. FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of open source developers and users world wide and is held annually in Brussels, Belgium. This year, the conference will take place on 2 and 3 February.

Mark Shuttleworth opens LinuxCon Europe with a keynote on how the future of computing will be collaborative

Flux Capacity 4.50 is available. Flux Capacity is a lightweight live CD based on Arch Linux and featuring the Fluxbox graphical interface.

Linux Foundation announces HP has become a Platinum Member of the Foundation.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, November 5, the immediate availability for download of the sixth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.

To "celebrate" the launch of Windows 8 just a few days before Halloween, activists from the Free Software Foundation played a little trick and handed out some treats at a launch event in New York City. With a costume-clad "GNU" leading the effort, the FSF representatives handed out DVDs loaded with Trisquel along with FSF stickers and information about the group's new pledge.

In the extremely overcrowded open source marketplace, marketing managers find it difficult to think of innovative ways to raise their brand's visibility. With so many brands jostling for attention, the low signal-to-noise ratio might tempt marketers into adopting an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach, attempting every idea from the marketing playbook in the hope that one will stick. However, this would be a mistake: careful niche marketing offers greater opportunities for brand advancements and market share. Let's see how.

At the start of LinuxCon Europe 2012, currently being held in Barcelona, the Linux Foundation has announced that both Citrix and HP have moved up the membership hierarchy of the organisation. The foundation has also announced four new members, which are all cloud service and hosting companies.

Almost everyday, game developers are confirming Linux support for their games based on the popular Unity3D game engine.

Remember ZShaolin? Yep, it’s that Android ninja tool that gives you zsh and a whole bunch of command-line applications on your Android device, minus the need to root it.

Is one piece of hardware for one job a bad thing?

Use VirtualBox on a headless server to create and manage remote virtual machines that can be accessed from anywhere

The recently released version 11.0 of the open source telephony software will be supported with security patches and updates for four years. The most significant new feature is WebRTC support