How To Install Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10, and 15.04
So Microsoft released today its first application for Linux (I think). It’s called Visual Studio Code and it supports the following languages: C++, jade, PHP, Python, XML, Batch, F#, DockerFile,...
View ArticleNetBSD 7 Keeps Support for the Sega Dreamcast
Underpowered From the Start With 16MB of Ram and a low-end 200Mhz processor, the usefulness of this 16 year-old hardware as a computing device is debatable. But has that stopped the team over at...
View ArticleThunderbird 24 Is Days Away, Mozilla Gets Back To Work
Thunderbird, the mysteriously abandoned (sort-of) open source mail client makes its return on September 17th. Faithful users have been marooned on version 17, receiving only maintenance tune-ups along...
View ArticleGaming On Linux Loses Editor, Plagiarist to Blame.
Edit: Gamingonlinux has not shut down, but has lost it’s Editor. A Great Resource Lost Gaming On Linux, a popular online portal for Linux gamers, shut down today. And it’s a shame. For all intents...
View ArticleSpoofing S.M.A.R.T. in a Virtual Environment
What is This? Setting up virtual environments can be essential to troubleshooting hardware and software problems. Unfortunately, if your software relies on SMART data to function properly, you’re out...
View ArticleTry Gnome 3.12 Right Now!
Itching to get your hands on the latest goodies from Gnome? Look no further… If you’d like to see the project’s latest efforts, including getting the best look at the latest Gnome core apps (Music,...
View ArticleHow to Make Web Apps Shine in Gnome 3.10
Getting Web Apps Right If you’re like most people, you spend an awful lot of your time working with a computer in a web browser. And that’s great! The cloud is the next frontier for just about...
View ArticleValve Furthers Linux Commitment, Officially Joins Linux Foundation
Do you take this platform, the have and to hold, for as long as you both shall live? Yes! While Valve has been tinkering away at SteamOS, and the Steam distribution platform for Linux, Gabe Newell and...
View ArticleWin a Free Android Game Console Courtesy of PlayMG!
Free Console??? Yep! PlayMG, a company dedicated to Android game consoles and safety online, wants to give one lucky Powerbase reader a PlayMG Android game console. What is a PlayMG? Well, we spent...
View ArticleLeft 4 Dead 2 Leaves Beta, Snatches Undead Wallets Everywhere
Left 4 Dead 2, Valve’s swan song for its aging source engine, has finally stepped out of beta for Linux. Left 4 Dead 2 is now officially available with many official fixes in tow. The 4 year old game...
View ArticleKWin Has Closed The Gaming Performance Gap With the 4.11 Compositor
You can run, but you can’t hide You can run, but you can’t hide from Michael Larabel. If it’s electronic and has the potential to run Linux, chances are he’s put it through its paces with the Phoronix...
View ArticleFirst DOSBox Powered Classics Trickle Into Linux Via Steam
What Sorcery Wizardry is this? Last year, a few weeks before the beta release of Steam on Linux, we reported on the state of GOG making its debut on Linux. At the time, all signs pointed towards GOG...
View ArticleHumble Bundle 9 Debuts 3 New Linux Games
The Humble Indie Bundle 9 is finally upon us. Finally? Sure… I honestly feel like I can’t go 1 week without buying something from the Humble Store… In fact, I still haven’t finished reading all of...
View ArticleThunderbird 24 Is Days Away, Mozilla Gets Back To Work
Thunderbird, the mysteriously abandoned (sort-of) open source mail client makes its return on September 17th. Faithful users have been marooned on version 17, receiving only maintenance tune-ups along...
View ArticleAudacity 2.0.4 Released, Brings Fractions Into The Equation
All Ears Audacity, everyone’s favorite open-source audio manipulator, matures into version 2.0.4. And with it come a bevy of changes that you are sure to exploit upon installation. Here is a list of...
View ArticleRhythmbox Hits 3.0, Goes On GTK3 Magic Carpet Ride
I Eat Tapes Rhythmbox, the long standing default audio player for Gnome, has been updated to 3.0 after –more or less– an eternity. This great player now fully integrates with Gnome 3. Codenamed I Eat...
View ArticleRTS Nuclear Dawn Almost Certainly Coming To Linux
It has been confirmed that Nuclear Dawn, the RTS/FPS hybrid game from Interwave studios, is being courted for the Linux platform. Courted by whom? Valve. The average and aging game, currently...
View ArticleRunning Ubuntu on a Google Chromebook
A lot of people have jumped the ship on Google’s first entry to the PC market with it’s Chromebooks. A big part of the success is probably due to the low cost and reasonable good design of the...
View ArticleElectronic Super Joy Gets Linux Early Access
So, what happens when Super Mario Bros. and Night At The Roxbury collide in outer space at the speed of light? Electronic Super Joy happens. Billed as a “brutally hard platformer set in a world of...
View ArticleKDE Connect For Android Shares Everything, Even Your Clipboard
Developer Albert Vaka has a very interesting GSoC project. In the wake of Ubuntu’s ‘convergance story‘, the prospect of integrating your phone with your computer–or even using your phone as a...
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