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Valve didn't want to share the details about the hardware and software solutions used in the Steam Link, but it looks like the community has been quick to dismantle and share with everyone all there is to know about it.

Valve is moving much quicker now with the SteamOS updates, and it looks like its makers are trying to push fixes and improvements ahead of the November 10 launch for the Steam Machines.

The UK Government is looking to shed its dependency on proprietary software and entered into a new commercial deal with an open source software company Collabora Productivity that adapts LibreOffice for the use in enterprise environments.

KDE Plasma has received some harsh criticism last week, and a good part of the community has chimed in although, from the looks of it, not all of the criticism was well deserved. A prominent KDE developer wrote a lengthy article explaining why KDE Plasma is considered stable and why the community has some problems with it.

The Nintendo Entertainment System or NES is one of the most famous video game console ever made, and it just turned 30. Why are we celebrating NES 30 years later? The answer is simple; because it's still relevant.

Another week has passed for the Solus team, and they've made just a small number of updates. It looks like things are calming down, and we might start to get anxious once more about a possible stable launch.

Ubuntu Phone Music App is the perfect example of platform convergence. It's pretty much the same code running on the phones and on the desktop, but that doesn't mean that it can't be improved, tremendously.

Valve is getting really close to the November 10 launch of the Steam Machines, and it's polishing the SteamOS distro. Only small fixes are landing, but they are important ones.

While everyone is focused on the launch of the official Ubuntu 15.10 flavors, the Ubuntu MATE team has been working on the Raspberry Pi 2 version, and it looks like it's going to be a glorious one.

The Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) development cycle is coming to an end and the project finally entered Final Freeze. This means that only a small number of particular fixes are allowed now, and the launch of the OS is only one week away.

The Ubuntu developers are working on fixing a problem with authentication failure notifications for online accounts that's been affecting the mobile platform.

A new OTA update for Ubuntu Touch is set to release in just a couple of days, but developers have unveiled it by mistake only for a short while. A few users got the notification and even managed to install it before it was pulled, but it shouldn't be a problem.

An important security issue on Ubuntu phone that has been revealed this morning has been fixed by the Canonical team. This the first major issues revealed on Ubuntu Touch, and the developers have been quick to repair it.

If something was missing from the Linux world that was an expansion pack for Cards Against Humanity, that's entirely about Linux. Well, it won't be missing for much longer, and one such expansion is on its way.

Q4OS, a Linux distribution based on Debian that aims to provide users with a desktop experience that is similar to the one found on older Windows systems, has been upgraded by its developers to version 1.4.3.

Ubuntu developers are talking about the future of Firefox in Ubuntu, which is creating a disturbance with its NPAPI support that will be deprecated in a little over a year.

The KDE Community has just announced that KDE Applications 15.08.2 has been released and is now available for download and testing.

The Manjaro Community has just announced the release of the stable JWM Edition 15.09 (Bellatrix), just a week after the launch of the development version.

The immensely popular Doctor Who science-fiction TV series has a lot of beloved characters and one of them is the K-9, which has been present on and off on the show for the past 30 years. An IBM engineer built an amazing functional replica of the K9 robot, and it's powered by a Raspberry Pi.

The GNOME developers are preparing to reintroduce a rating system for GNOME Software, but nothing as simple as the old one. It will be a complex way of rating the applications so that users can make informed decisions.