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Steam For Linux Adoption Closes In On Mac
Full Steam Ahead The raw figures For those of you who have been abroad the Linux Steam train since the early betas late last year, things are really on the up & up. Valve has just released its...
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Gamer Rewrites Valve’s Steam Installer For Debian
Gaming on Linux is a very real thing right now, and most of that is thanks to Steam. Initially, Steam committed only to the most popular desktop distribution, Ubuntu but more recently has opened the...
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[HOW TO] Install Oxygen Transparent In KDE 4.10
What’s Hotter Than Hot? KDE has never been a dog, but if there is one thing in life that is better than a beautiful woman, it’s one with no clothes. And that’s precisely what we’re going to do with KDE...
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Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Solves Identity Crisis, Moves To Mac
de Icaza Today in his personal blog, Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome, and one of the most polarizing personalities in the free software world, announced that he is finished with the Linux platform...
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Two Major KDE Developers Weigh In On Mir, Wayland
To the average user, the announcement of Mir is simply news of something that’s going to ‘happen’. To the seasoned user, Mir raises a lot of questions. Those questions have been asked and speculated...
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Jonathon Riddell, Others, Not Subtle In Attacks Against Ubuntu’s New...
Amidst all the drama stemming for Ubuntu’s announcement of the the Mir display server, their new secretive approach, and the increasing commercialization of the product, the easy thing to do is point a...
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Linux Beats Mac Dramatically In Humble Bundle Total Payments
It’s long been the tradition in Humble Bundle for Linux buyers to outspend other platforms per payment, but this time Linux users have won another category; total payments by platform. How on the...
View ArticleLinux Mint “Not in the Business of Picking Winners”, Continues With Xorg
Since Ubuntu’s announcement of the Mir display manager, the fate of Ubuntu derivatives such as Kubuntu and Linux Mint have been questioned and discussed by both the community and it’s leaders....
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Improve Linux Gaming Performance With FSGamer
Gaming on Linux Ever since the advent of Steam for Linux, performance issues have miffed gamers; especially those who are using Ubuntu’s Unity and are forced to use Compiz as their display compositor....
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How To Roll Your Own 13.04 Ubuntu Gnome Remix
Well now that news is out in the wild that Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 is now an official Ubuntu derivative, you’re probably wanting to test it out. Problem is, there is no ISO for it. That makes it pretty...
View ArticleUnity 7 Fast-tracked Into Ubuntu 13.04
Unity 7 Ubuntu developer Michael writes in his blog that his feature freeze extension request in launchpad has been approved. Because of this feature freeze, Unity 7 will now ship as a component of...
View ArticleUbuntu-GNOME 13.04 ISOs Now Available
Pits and Landings If you’ve been following the Ubuntu GNOME developments over the last couple of days, you’ve likely had a lot of questions about how to try it. Well, the Powerbase was the first...
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Plasma Workspaces 2 Coming To Wayland, KDM Not Invited
Auf Wiedersehen KDM The first part of today’s headline is probably obvious to many of you. KDE will be moving on from Xorg to Wayland. And considering Gnome’s aggressive plans to move to it, this may...
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Kerbal Space Program Gets Native Linux Version
I don’t play many PC games, in fact, I only play one: Kerbal Space Program (KSP). KSP is a spaceflight game in which you personally design and build every craft you launch, with the goal (such as it...
View ArticleChocolatey Attempts Debian Style Package Management In Windows
Yeah, we know. It reads like a premature April Fool’s headline, which is something we’re pretty good at. But this is a real thing. Chocolatey allows users to install applications in the fastest way...
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Closed-source Linux Tycoon Now Available For DOS
From a cube-shaped planet far from earth… From the deepest darkest corner of the deepest darkest dungeon of Bizarro World, Bryan Lunduke releases Linux Tycoon, his closed-source game about an open...
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OpenShot Reaches Halfway In Kickstarter Campaign
Send to Kindle OpenShot, the leading (currently) open source video editing package for Linux has reached the halfway point in its Kickstarter campaign today. OpenShot, which seeks 20k in funding to...
View ArticleKubuntu Will Continue With Xorg Until Ubuntu 14.10
A Long Way ‘Til Wayland… Fans of Ubuntu and fans of KDE are likely privy to the behind-the-scenes drama regarding to coming switch to Mir. Mir is a compositing display server developed internally by...
View ArticleUbuntu Rushes Mir, XMir Into Ubuntu 13.10
In a move that have been playing out dramatically, and implosively, within the open source community, Ubuntu is set to introduce thier next-generation display server. Originally slated for inclusion...
View ArticleFinal Term: A 2013 Spin on a 1978 Relic
The terminal emulator. Perhaps the most important tool in any one person’s arsenal for accessing systems remotely and locally. Unix and Linux admins would be lost without one; but despite it’s...
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