How to Enable OpenGL 3.0 Support for Open Source Radeon Drivers in Ubuntu 12.10

AMD has recently dropped support for cards in series HD 2xxx-4xxx. Catalyst drivers for these cards are now available in a different branch, called Legacy series. Legacy drivers won't receive any new feature updates from AMD.

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Torque 3D Game Engine to be Open Sourced

Cross platform Torque 3D game engine will be open sourced soon under MIT license. In a blog post, GarageGames announced that complete Torque 3D 1.2 source code, along with the four starting templates, will be made available in a GitHub repository.

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Supergiant Games Open Sources MonoGame Fork

Supergiant Games, who brought the incredibly popular game 'Bastion' to Linux, Mac and Google Chrome, has open sourced MonoGame fork which was used to port the game on these platforms.

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Disney Channel Show Mentions that 'Open Source Code is Unsafe'

In a recent episode of Disney Channel series 'Shake it Up', it was mentioned that open source code is unsafe and may contain virus.

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FlightGear v2.8.0 Released

Free and open source Flight Simulator FlightGear has reached yet another release milestone bringing in many new features and fixes.

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No TextMate Port for Linux

TextMate, which is considered to be one of the best text editors for Mac, has gone open source. In less than 24 hours, over 500 branches/forks have already been created and many improvements are already landing into the codebase.

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RIM Releases New Version of Open Source 3D Game Engine 'Gameplay', Linux Support Coming

Research In Motion Limited or (RIM), popularly known for its product BlackBerry smartphone, has just released a new version of its open-source and cross-platform C++ game engine Gameplay.

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'Sintel: The Game' Alpha Finally Available for Download

Sintel The Game is a video game adaptation of popular open movie Sintel by Blender Foundation. The game showcased its pre-demo in Blender Game Contest 2010 and stood at second place.

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Win $1500 Prize in Open Source Game Making Contest

Are you a developer or an artist? Here is a chance to contribute to an open source project and win cash prizes at the same time.

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0 A.D. Alpha 10 'Jhelum' Released

Free and Open Source RTS Game 0 A.D. Alpha 10 'Jhelum' has been released. This alpha features Hellenic factions such as Athens, Macedonia and Sparta; technologies, civilization phases, click-and-drag walls, healing and more.

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Open Source Driver for Microsoft Surface 2.0

Florian Echtler has developed an open-source driver for the Microsoft Surface 2.0 touch screen.

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Mozilla Joins Liberated Pixel Cup

Few days back we wrote about Liberated pixel cup, a game development competition by Creative Commons, OpenGameArt and the Free Software Foundation.

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UFO: Alien Invasion 2.4 Released for Linux

UFO: Alien Invasion is a free and open source strategy game featuring turn-based tactical combat against hostile alien forces (human or computer controlled) which are infiltrating earth at this very moment. The game is heavily influenced by the X-COM series (mostly by UFO: Enemy Unknown).

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Have You Played OpenMW (Open Source Morrowind)?

OpenMW is a free and open source engine for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable and improved implementation of the game's engine and functionality.

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Speed Dreams 2.0 Released with New Cars, Career Mode and More

Speed Dreams is a fork of the famous open racing car simulator Torcs, aiming to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, as well as constantly improving visual and physics realism.

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Linus Torvalds Appreciates Ubuntu's User Centric Approach

Linus Torvalds will be receiving Millennium Technology Award, one of the highest Technology Honors for his exceptional contribution to Linux kernel and open source.

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First Stable Release of 'Arx Libertatis' Available for Linux [3D First Person RPG]

Few days back we wrote about Arx Libertatis, a free and open source project that ports popular first person 3D RPG Arx Fatalis to Linux.

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Free and Open Source RTS Game '0 A.D.' Now Available in Ubuntu Software Center [12.04]

0 A.D. is a free and open-source real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D.

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Liberated Pixel Cup, A Game Making Competition by Creative Commons, OpenGameArt and the Free Software Foundation

OpenGameArt, Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation have teamed up for a new game making contest: Liberated Pixel Cup.

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Help Free and Open Source Project 'Open Octave' and Win a Computer [i7, 24GB RAM, 3TB Hard Drive]

Update 2: The campaign is back online. You can donate to Indiegogo page but all the giveaways are taken back because of some legal issues.

Update 1: The campaign has been suspended because of some confusion and miscommunication. More details here.

Open Octave Studio is a free and open source music production software and digital audio workstation (DAW).

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