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Sweet Contest! 1 Free Steam Game A Week For 8 Weeks!!
Hey gang! The Powerbase wanted to sweeten up your summer with awesome free games. Each week for the next 8 weeks, we will be giving away games on Desura, Steam & Ubuntu Software Center. We’ll pick...
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Opening the Box: Open Pandora Review
There are a lot of really cool open source devices out there, and we’ve always tried to cover as many of them as possible here at The Powerbase through our articles and hands-on reviews. But there has...
View ArticleUbuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest is Staring, Now
Like clockwork, another version of Ubuntu is on the horizon. And just like previous releases, there is a wallpaper contest attached to it allowing lovers of the open source operating system to put...
View ArticleGnome 3.9.4 Intros Photos App, Improves Wayland support
Gnome 3.9.4 Gnome announced today that their latest development release 2.9.4 is out and ready for the everyday risk-takers consumption, and with it come some new–and perhaps even exciting– changes....
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XBMC Will Gain Full Wayland Support Before Mir
XBMC developer smspillaz, the man responsible for the XBMC Weston hack a few months ago, is now rounding the final turns towards XBMC being fully compatible with Wayland. smspillaz reports that he...
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Week 2 of The Powerbase Steam Giveaway Has Commenced!
Hey gang! The Powerbase wanted to sweeten up your summer with awesome free games. Each week for the next 7 weeks, we will be giving away games on Desura, Steam & Ubuntu Software Center. We’ll pick...
View ArticleE17 May Finally Be Packaged For Fedora 20
Enlightment is a desktop environment that has been around for a very long time, and unlike other light wieght desktops such as Fluxbox, OpenBox and FVWM, Enlightment has mysteriously escaped being...
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SOL Laptop: The Mighty Penguin Will Now Take on the Sun
WeWi Telecommunications Inc. may be a small company, but that is not stopping them from coming out with some big ideas. The latest project from the London, Ontario, Canada group is the SOL Laptop. The...
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...
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 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 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...
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Rhythmbox 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 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 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 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 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...
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KWin 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 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...
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Win 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...
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