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SMACH Z is a portable Steam Machine, powered by SteamOS and capable of running one most of the games the Steam library. The new device is not yet available, but it’s trying to raise enough money of Kickstarter to become a reality.

Windows users don't have to concern themselves with what libraries they need to have installed when they just want to play something, but the Linux platform is still struggling with this problem. The Solus developers have solved the issue for their OS, by integrating the much-needed 32-bit glibc and its dependencies.

Canonical announces that it's finally retiring a feature that wasn't all that popular to begin with, the default online search in Unity 7's dash.

The Document Foundation announces that LibreOffice 4.4.7, the final point release for the 4.4 branch of the official suite, has arrived and is now ready for download.

The Unity game engine has been upgraded to version 5.3, and its developers have made a series of very important improvements to it. Unity is one of the most successful gaming engines out there, and it's being used by too many games to count. Some of the more famous include Angry Birds 2, Pillars of Eternity, ......

Now that the Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon and MATE flavors have been released, the users of the previous version have been given a green light for the upgrade.

Adobe abandoned active development for the Flash Player on Linux a while back and is now only releasing security upgrades. The company just released a massive security update, and it looks like the Linux platform is covered as well.

Chapeau 23 “Armstrong,” a Linux distribution based on the Fedora 23 Workstation has been released and is now available for download.

Ubuntu developers are planning to implement a default VPN solution into Ubuntu Touch that will be later made available in the regular Ubuntu desktop.

Digital photo management application for KDE and Linux digiKam has been upgraded to version 5.0 Beta 2 and is now ready for testing and download.

It looks like Steam for Linux managed to move past another milestone, 1,700 games for the open source platform.

FM Radio seems to have been forgotten as a feature on modern smartphones, but it was all the rage a decade ago. Now, developers are looking at enabling that function of Ubuntu phones that support it.

The AMD Foss Drivers have just received an important update and it looks like they are now OpenGL 4.1 compliant, which means that some new cool features are on their way.

GNU.org has a category on its website named “Philosophy of the GNU Project” where the Microsoft software is described as malware, along with Apple and Amazon.

One of these days Solus 1.0 will be released, and all the anticipation will be gone. This is not that date, but it’s exciting nonetheless. We have some more news about the new version of Budgie, tentatively called Next, and about various package updates.

The Ubuntu Touch OS has finally upgraded to a much newer version of the BlueZ 5.x stack, bringing improve support for Bluetooth connectivity.

Unity 8 is coming to the Ubuntu desktop flavor, but there is still a lot of uncertainty in the community about when it will actually happen, not to mention that there are quite a few users who don't really understand what it is all about. We hope that this article will help clear some misunderstandings.

Wine developers have just revealed that version 1.8 RC1 of their application has been released, which means that a new major stable version is just around the corner.

A new OTA update for Ubuntu Touch has been released, and users should start receiving it right about now. OTA updates for Ubuntu Touch are released every six weeks or so, and the eighth one was delayed, but only for a day. It wasn't a big problem, and the developers promised to have it fixed, which they already did.

The Opera web browser continues to move forward at an unrelenting pace, and its developers have just announced a number of features that will arrive with the 35.x branch. It's going to be a great release and users can already download and test it.