• The video of Keith Packard's presentation on 'Making Games Work Better on Debian' is up

  For those interested, the video of Keith Packard's presentation at DebConf 2018 is now available to view.

  DebConf is the annual Debian Developer’s Conference that's being held this year in Hsinchu, Taiwan that started on July 29th and it will end on August 5th.

• The adventure platformer 'Chasm' has finally released with same-day Linux support

  After a long wait, the adventure platformer Chasm from developer Bit Kid is now officially available.

  Originally funded on Kickstarter, back when the developer was originally called Discord Games in 2013 thanks to the help of nearly seven thousand backers, it felt like an overly long wait. Games take time though of course, so it's good to see Bit Kid finally reach their goal.

• The Albion Online 'Merlyn' update is now officially live bringing Faction Warfare

• Detective adventure 'Lamplight City' is confirmed to be coming to Linux

  One for fans of point and click adventure games, as the detective adventure Lamplight City [Official Site] from the developer of A Golden Wake and Shardlight is coming to Linux.

• Strategy game 'Gladiabots' where you fight by giving robots their own AI updated, Steam release soon

  Gladiabots from developer GFX47 was just recently updated with quite a lot of improvements ahead of the Steam release on August 9th.

  It's quite an interesting strategy game, since you have no direct control over your units. Instead, you use a drag and drop approach to give them AI actions based on certain conditions.

• Theme park building game 'Parkitect' beta 9 is out

• Another weekly look at some good Linux games on sale

• This Is the Police 2 has officially released a little earlier than expected

  A few days earlier than expected, it seems This Is the Police 2 has now been officially released with Linux support.

  Making a little joke about it on Twitter, THQ Nordic said "What's wrong with our publishing buttons? After forgetting to press the "Go Live" button for the original #ThisIsthePolice, this time we pressed it a bit too early… This Is the Police 2 is OUT… NOW!".

• How to be the lazy sysadmin

  The job of a Linux SysAdmin is always complex and often fraught with various pitfalls and obstacles. Ranging from never having enough time to do everything, to having the Pointy-Haired Boss (PHB) staring over your shoulder while you try to work on the task that she or he just gave you, to having the most critical server in your care crash at the most inopportune time, problems and challenges abound. I have found that becoming the Lazy Sysadmin can help.

• What's in a container image: Meeting the legal challenges

  Container technology has, for many years, been transforming how workloads in data centers are managed and speeding the cycle of application development and deployment.

  In addition, container images are increasingly used as a distribution format, with container registries a mechanism for software distribution. Isn't this just like packages distributed using package management tools? Not quite. While container image distribution is similar to RPMs, DEBs, and other package management systems (for example, storing and distributing archives of files), the implications of container image distribution are more complicated. It is not the fault of container technology itself; rather, it's because container distribution is used differently than package management systems.

• The top requirement for high-impact teams

  What is the top requirement for high-impact teams? When I was recently asked this question, I started making a list.

• OpenShift Commons Briefing: OpenShift Origin 3.10 Release Update with Derek Carr and Mike Barrett (Red Hat)

  In this briefing, Red Hat’s Derek Carr and Mike Barrett walk us thru what’s new in OpenShift Origin Release 3.10

• OpenShift Commons Briefing: IoT Edge Deployments on OpenShift with RHEL – Luca Gabella (Red Hat)

  In this briefing, Red Hat’s Alessandro Arrichiello, Luca Bigotta and Luca Gabella (Red Hat) walk us thru leveraging containers  for IoT Edge Deployments: in this scenario and discuss how developers are using OpenShift  to build Edge Applications. Then they walked us thru  a real use case scenario how developers can leverage OpenShift features for enabling Hybrid deployments on standalone Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the demonstration, they also show using OpenShift’s Ansible Service Broker for automating the external deployment, and talked about using Ansible Tower when large scale ones will be needed.

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Dips 3.16% for July 30

• Stock Under Review: Red Hat (NYSE: RHT)

• Are Investors need vacation from Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK) and Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)?

Google followed up on its Edge TPU machine learning chip announcement by unveiling a USB Type-C based version that you can plug into any Linux or Android Things computer, including a Raspberry Pi. There are also new details on the Edge TPU dev board.

Following Google’s announcement of an embedded friendly Edge TPU version of its Tensor Processing Unit AI chip and the related Cloud IoT Edge stack for IoT gateways, the company announced a USB stick computer version of Edge TPU that can work with any Linux or Android Things computer. It also posted more details on the upcoming, NXP-based Edge TPU development kit, including its SoC: an NXP i.MX8M.

Dubbed Bionic Beaver, the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system was launched in April 2018 as the latest release of Canonical's popular Ubuntu Linux OS, and it's a long-term support release that will receive security and software updates for the next five years, until April 2023. The Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS point release is also available for download and includes all the latest security updates.

Being based on the Linux kernel, Ubuntu is already a secure computer operating system compared to Windows or macOS, but if you're living in the UK (United Kingdom) and you need to configure your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installations for maximum security, the National Cyber Security Centre tells you how.