If you want to play free, infinitely-generated Sudoku games in the minimalist interface and low-resource base of a Linux terminal, try nudoku. It was made using the ncurses library to create a simple interface in the terminal that anyone can hop into and start playing.

PC gaming has been popular for decades, but there’s still something charming about classic game consoles that booted quickly, featured a minimal operating system, and let you play games by inserting a cartridge or disc. Here’s the basic idea behind ...

If Valve gets the pricing right, its new console could finally make Linux a first-class citizen on the biggest screen in the house.

Now, Valve is once again announcing an alternative to PlayStation and Xbox. It’s once again calling it the Steam Machine. And the pitch, once again, is an open-source Linux PC for your living room instead of a proprietary box that only plays a specific library of games.