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. Those issues have been combated in several ways. Nvidia and AMD have been ‘stepping up to the plate’ so to speak with [...]
How To Install NES Games In Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal
From the awesome things you could be doing right now file Integrating the classics So gang, what’s cooler that being able to play your classic NES roms in Linux rather than on your dusty old NES Control Deck? Installing them alongside your other apps, that’s what. And that’s just what we set out to do! [...]
KDE 4.9.2 Released: Brings October’s Bugfixes And Features
For some, the 1st of the month is something to rejoice about, but unlike checks from the Department of Welfare, KDE brings nothing but good tidings and cheer with this latest series of updates, one day later. Highlights From KDE.org: Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin, Plasma and many more [...]
How To Play The Marathon Trilogy In Ubuntu 12.04
Halo fans probably know this better than anyone, but for those of you who are in the dark, this is for you. The Marathon Trilogy was a suite of first-person shooters developed for the classic Macintosh in the mid-90s by Bungie Software. Mrathon 2 would later see a release for Windows 95, but other than [...]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lives! Go Back To The Future With Lucid Lynx
Does Oneiric have you down? Is your hardware not up to snuff? Well, what are you going to do about it? Ubuntu 10.04 is almost 2 years old now, but you can teach it the electric slide even if all it know how to do is the funky chicken. Here is a short and simple [...]
Kmail 2: Fix ‘Failed to fetch the resource collection’ error and get on with life
Not everyone uses the web to check their mail- though it certainly makes sense to do so. If you are using KMail 2 in Kubuntu 11.10, you may have seen this error. KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection. This error happened even when [...]