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Unreal Engine release, Laby, jMonkeyEngine, and more open gaming news

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Unreal Engine release, Laby, jMonkeyEngine, new Linux games, and the Pick of the Week! Open gaming roundup…

Cloud Native Computing Foundation, space listening, and more open source news

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the new Cloud Native Computing Foundation from the Linux Foundation, space listening, the new…

How I finally got permission to use my own computer

I've always had a passion for technology and computers. But, with a poor upbringing in a trailer park in Flint, Michigan, I didn't have the luxury of owning a computer until I…

Steam rumors are flying again, but Desura beat them to open source

Linux game review: OpenTTD

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine introduced me to OpenTTD, an open source (GPLv2) transportation planning simulator game. Available for Android, I briefly opened the…

Linux on supercomputers, Google's Eddystone, and more news

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Linux on supercomputers, Google's Eddystone, and more! Open source news roundup for July 11 - 17…

Top 5 articles of the week on Opensource.com

Top 5: Linux in the military, tools for documents and text, and more

This week's Top 5 looks at Linux in the military, text editors, text tools, document tools, and Python and Raspberry Pi for education. Top 5 articles of the week 5. What's…

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