Psychonauts from Double Fine is now available for Linux DRM-Free via their web store.
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Psychonauts now available for Linux DRM-Free!
February 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Turpial: The Best Twitter Client For Linux
February 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you’re a Linux desktop user like myself you may have experienced problems finding for a decent Twitter client. In many distributions the default is Gwibber, it’s even integrated into the Unity desktop for Ubuntu. I’ve used it on and off for years but it’s monumentally slow, buggy and unstable. Whenever I try Gwibber it hangs and I get the classic Compiz grey window while I wait for the machine to stop having a panic attack. All I’m trying to do is refresh my messages. Out of frustration and purely by chance I stumbled across the answer, Turpial. A lightweight Python app for the Linux desktop. Finally I can take Gwibber out the back and shoot it.
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Distribution Release: Linux Lite 1.0.4
February 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Jerry Bezencon has announced the release of Linux Lite 1.0.4, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a customised Xfce desktop: “Linux Lite 1.0.4 final for 32-bit processors with PAE support has been released. If you already have the CVF version installed, there is no immediate need to install this final….
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5 Reasons Chromebooks Win After Linux Netbooks Lost
February 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Google Chromebooks are generating more and more buzz. Acer, Lenovo and Samsung already offer the low-cost, cloud-centric notebooks. And Hewlett-Packard could join the Chromebook party soon. So why might Chrome OS devices succeed where Linux netbooks ultimately failed? Here are five extremely clear reasons.
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Linux Achieves Bodhi Enlightenment
February 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The developers at Bodhi have created a desktop operating system in which the elegant but lightweight Enlightenment window manager is used as the desktop environment and have wedded it to the nuts and bolts of the operating system so completely that desktop and operating system are truly “one” in the classical metaphysical sense.
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UEFI-enabled Samsung laptops get bricked with Linux
February 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A number of Samsung laptops are dying after they are booted with a live-usb image of Ubuntu 12.04 using UEFI, according to information at the Ubuntu bug reporting site.
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Microsoft partly releases study on Munich’s Linux migration
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Microsoft has released a summary of the study compiled by HP on the Linux migration in Munich. In an article, German magazine Focus Money Online had last week quoted figures from an unpublished study that Microsoft had commissioned from HP. The study concludes that at €60.6 million (approximately £51 million), the City of Munich’s Linux migration was considerably more expensive than reported by its council last November. However, last week, Microsoft Germany had emphasized that the study was compiled for internal purposes.
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Reiser4 On The Linux 3.7 Kernel, Possible TRIM
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Reiser4 file-system has been ported to run on the Linux 3.7 kernel. Separately, TRIM/DISCARD support for Reiser4 on solid-state drives is being discussed amongst the remaining Reiser4 developers…
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News: Linux Top 3: Alan Cox, CloudForms and KDE
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Development Release: Linux Deepin 12.12 Alpha
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A preview version of Linux Deepin 12.12, a popular Chinese community distribution, has been unleashed for testing. This is the first version that ships with the brand new Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), which replaces GNOME Shell as the default desktop. DDE along with its Deepin System Settings (DSS)….
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Gaming on a Linux Tablet compared to an iPad.
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It wasn’t too long ago that the rumours started to fly about a brand new tablet that may be hitting the market sooner than we thought. For those who aren’t in the know, Linux is an operating system that has seen some measure of popularity from certain sectors of the computing community thanks to its modular system and the ability to add, remove and adjust literally any part of the program to suit your needs.
Half-Life And Counter-Strike Games Now Available Natively For Linux [Steam]
January 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Valve has released the original Half Life 1 and Counter Strike 1.6 games for Linux (and OS X).
