The openSUSE Conference will be held July 18-22, 2013, at the Olympic Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The openSUSE Conference will be held July 18-22, 2013, at the Olympic Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The long anticipated phenomenon of 3D printing, which the futurists have long identified as a potential “disruptive technology,” truly arrived this month with the appearance of the first 3D-printing controversy: 3D printing of cheap hand guns. Pop science prognosticators who have been bleary-eyed over the “promise” of 3D printing seemed caught off guard by the appearance of the first 3D guns. (You mean this wasn’t just for printing heart valves and Ironman exoskeletons?) At last, 3D printing was not just a quirky popular science oddity, but something that could serve as the fodder for moral arguments – by both sides, and a blogosphere seemingly thrilled to have some new material for speech making and hand wringing.

The appearance of new game engines with Linux support gives rise to hope that more games will start to appear in Linux versions. The free game engines are also getting better.

Longtime litigator revives an ancient suit against IBM alleging Linux infringes on Unix copyrights.