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Valve announced last week the first Steam Machines and a date for their launch, in November, but the company also released a few details about Steam Link and the Steam Controller. This last item should be a revolution in the gaming world, but it's unlikely that it will happen.

Microsoft is finally noticing that most for the workloads on Virtual Machines on Azure are actually Linux-powered, and they are finally releasing the necessary tools to monitor those workloads.

The MATE desktop environment is getting a major update, and it will land soon in repositories everywhere. We take a closer at what's new with MATE 1.10 to see what the features to be implemented are.

The latest Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition from the Spanish company BQ is now available for purchase on the official website. This latest Ubuntu phone was announced just a couple of weeks ago and it's finally here.

Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most influential Sci-Fi writers of the 20th century, and anyone should recognize his name as the author of mesmerizing 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was also called a futurist, and he made some interesting predictions that seem to have come through.

This week, NASA released its second annual Software Catalog, a giant compendium of over 1,000 programs available for free to industry, government agencies, and the general public. The Software Catalog contains the actual advanced engineering and aeronautics codes NASA engineers purpose-built for their daily work.

The Steam Link is an upcoming piece of technology that will allow users to stream their games from the PC to the TV, transforming a desktop gaming session into a couch gaming session.

Valve has revealed some details about the upcoming Steam Link, the small device that will let you play your favorite PC games on the TV with the help of streaming technology. And, from the looks of it, one of the recommendations is to have at least Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

The ATM Industry Association or ATMIA has released a white paper today in which they recommend the use of Windows 10 on ATMs, skipping any intermediary steps, and for the first time they are considering Linux as a viable option.

Canonical has made it possible to install and test the latest Unity 8 desktop environment on any Ubuntu system just by adding a PPA and installing the appropriate packages.

A developer has built a custom alarm watch powered by the Linux kernel with NTP synchronization, touch keypad, and network connectivity.

The Ubuntu Touch platform already received a few major updates in the past few months, but the developers are preparing so much more with the next releases. This information was revealed during the latest Ubuntu insider hangout.

The Linux Mint team has just announced that Cinnamon 2.6 is finally stable and ready for download. They also detailed this latest release of the desktop environment, and it's got to be biggest update made until now.

The Meizu MX4 UbunMeizu MX4 Ubuntu is the first phone with the operating system from Canonical from Meizu. It's also the first high-end device to ship with this OS, so naturally there was a lot of interest in the community. The problem is that it's no longer available in the store. The phone has disappeared from the official store, and there is no information as of yet why that has happened.

KDE Applications 15.04.1 are now available in Kubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) via a handy PPA repository that is available right now.

Dell is making a push to enter the Internet of Things ecosystem, and it's doing so with a new device aptly named Dell IoT Gateway, which is powered by Ubuntu Core, among other things.

Debian 8 (Jessie) was announced only a month ago, and now its developers are preparing the first point update for it and they even have a precise date in mind.

WinFF is a tool that uses FFMPEG to convert any kind of video files by using a large number of presets and a ton of other options. It's been around for a long while, so it's time to take a closer look at it and see how it has endured the passage of time.

Ubuntu TV was one of the early attempts from Canonical to branch out on other platforms, and it showed great promise, but it didn't get anywhere. The project is currently shelved, but it's interesting to see that Canonical was thinking about convergence long before they started to publicize it.

Dell has been moving a lot of interesting moves lately and it's focusing on the Linux side of the business, which can only be a good thing for the open source platform.