Google Announces $250 Chromebook
Laptop computers running Google’s Chrome OS, referred to collectively as “Chromebooks”, have been an interesting experiment. An operating system which forgoes local applications for Internet-based...
View ArticleThe Freedom to Innovate – Interaction Design for Plasma Active
I first learned about Plasma Active on a KDE User Experience sprint in April 2011. Sebastian Kügler was talking about their new project called Plasma Active, which aimed to bring the KDE experience to...
View ArticleUbuntu For Android Makes Animated Debut
Ubuntu Ren & Stimpy Remember that really cool concept debuted by Canonical last February? Ubuntu for Android? Yeah? Well, guess what, it’s still cool and it’s still happening. The proof? This...
View ArticleGEGL Dev Seeks Crowd-funding Model For GIMP Components
GIMP developer Nicolas Robidoux seeks to leverage a freedom-based crowd-funding solution to bank-roll completion of the Nohalo/Lohalo/Lojaggy/Loblur suite of image resamplers for GEGL. The idea...
View ArticleIntroducing The Humble Not For Linux Bundle
One of my favorite things in the world is the almost monthly surprise of a new Humble Bundle. It almost always results in an immediate purchase. Now I can always count on the surprise, but not on the...
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ODROID Boards Offer High-End Raspberry Pi Alternatives
There’s no question that the Raspberry Pi is everyone’s favorite ARM development board right now: it’s cheap, silent, and exceptionally power efficient. The Raspberry Pi makes an excellent choice for...
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KDE Welcomes Trojitá, Offers Multiple E-Mail Clients
What is Trojitá? Trojitá is a small, light, and fast IMAP e-mail client built with Qt. Now, Trojitá is officially a part of the KDE project, and one of the first applications in the whole suite to...
View ArticleSwiss City Mandates Use Of Open Source, Banishes Microsoft Officially
Europe Moving Forward In an overwhelming majority vote, the city council in Bern, Switzerland has moved to implement all future infrastructure with open source technologies. The “Party Motion”, as it...
View ArticleLinus Torvalds To 386: “I’m Not Sentimental, Good Riddance.”
All old things must come to an end If there is one thing we can all count on in the open source blogosphere, it’s Linus Torvalds no bullshit approach to communicating with the world. That same no...
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American Epic Meriwether Coming To Linux, With Your Help
An American Epic Software firm Sortasoft LLC, of Brooklyn, NY, aims to bring a fresh and innovative RPG to Linux, and it’s not too short of it’s financial backing goals; but it hasn’t reached them...
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Building Doom 3 BFG Edition From Source (Part 1)
Hey gang, recently we wrote about the availability of Doom 3 BFG Edition for Linux, which is awesome! But what good is a bunch of source code if you don’t have it in a compiled, playable form? That’s...
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Paving the Way For Open Source Weaponry
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is often the launchpad for new and innovative products, and this year’s show is no exception. One of the most surprising new products to be unveiled, and perhaps the...
View ArticleLenovo Enters The Chromebook Game, Lends Credibility
ThinkPad X131e Chromebook The Chromebook is now officially 2 years old, with the original model CR-48 officially long-in-the-tooth and left behind. After the initially testing period of the CR-48,...
View ArticleGetDeb, PlayDeb Return, Ubuntu Gamers Rejoice
That abysmal moment when you want to play a little Marathon and your favorite games repository is down.. Some of you may have experience the discomfort of this is late December with GetDeb — and...
View Article[How To] Install KDE 4.10 in Kubuntu 12.10
One step closer to 5.0… Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement — or today, depending where you are — of the availability of KDE 4.10, the software compilation has already been packaged by the...
View ArticleAnodyne, A 16-Bit Style Action RPG, Released For Linux
If you visited The Pirate Bay today, you probably noticed a nice little promo going on involving the new game Anodyne. Anodyne is a Zelda-esque style action RPG, with the charm of my favorite RPG ever...
View Article[How To] Install Anodyne In Ubuntu 12.04 And 12.10
Anodyne, an amazing Zelda-esque action RPG, has just been released, and you can get in now as part of a promotion at The Pirate Bay. Only problem is, it is an Adobe Air application. This is bad on...
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Google Pixel Runs Linux Mint, With Minimal Tradeoffs
There are many of you who were surprised by yesterday’s announcement of the Chromebook Pixel, a high resolution device with extremely limited capabilities for an enormous pricetag. In fact, many of...
View ArticleWill SurfaceFlinger Replace Compiz In Ubuntu 14.04?
Secrets & Lies Canonical has been hard at work on some very interesting projects lately. This new direction started last year when it announced Ubuntu for phones, a fully featured desktop loaded...
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Play HTML5 Games In Your Login Screen With MDM
MDM, the Mint Display Manager, now offers an awesome features for artists and web developers that want to design attractive login screens for Linux. MDM now supports themes made with HTML5. But can...
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