Full Steam Ahead 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 February, 2013 Steam Hardware & Software Survey, and the results are absolutely mind blowing. Linux is now standing strong as [...]
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 you use it? Well, kind of… From the Linux Mint Blog: MDM 1.2 will be available in Linux Mint 15 and will [...]
Will 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 onto an Android device. More recently — and more mysteriously — they’ve been working on the Ubuntu operating system for phones and tablets [...]
[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 two levels; 1) Adobe Air was abondoned by Adobe quite some time ago, and 2) Adobe Air [...]
Ubuntu May Become Rolling Release With 14.04
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ Watchers of Ubuntu On Air, Ubuntu’s series of public Google Hangouts that detail some of the behind the scenes happenings, were greeted with some extremely interesting information. This information could potentialyl lead to the biggest (only) departure in the Ubuntu release model ever, and align it with Linux die-hard favorites such as [...]
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 what we’re here for. We are going to show you how to successful build the latest sources [...]
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 low-energy applications like personal servers, routers, firewalls, environmental monitoring setups, etc, etc. But the Raspberry Pi has one big downside, it’s a fairly slow machine. [...]
Gnome Takes a Step Back To Make A Come Back With “Classic” 3.8
Put out your torches Linux community. We’ve known for a little while now that after that enormous backlash against Gnome for removing “fallback” mode, Gnome has announced that it plans to bring back a real “Classic” mode for it’s remaining users ready to make the exodus march. Now you can divide your negativity towards Unity [...]
Introducing 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 shock. Humble Bundle is famous for its Humble Indie Bundle, and this one is just the opposite. [...]
Ubuntu 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 new ad from Canonical explaining the benefits! The selling point remains the same; You’re walking around with the uber-powerful device in your pocket with [...]