News

Linux Just Not Ready For Gaming

Until now, I have remained quite reserved about any serious Linux gaming, which seems to have gained quite some momentum thanks to Valve’s recent...

Community Interview | Daniel Mons

While things remain quiet overall with Linux development, I took some time out to interview a good friend of mine who I have known...

Kernel Development Made Easy? Not yet.

If someone asked me “What is your favorite part of the Linux operating system?”, I would have to say the Linux kernel itself. And...

OpenGL vs DirectX: 1 – 0

Since Valve announced their official support for Steam into Linux platform, everyone is acting crazy. Quite recently, Valve's boss - Mr.Gabe, said that "Windows...

Wine 1.5.10 has been released!

Wine is a free and open source application that allows users to run Windows software on other operating systems. Wine is always under heavy...

Google IO session videos hit the lights

The Google’s Input / Output annual 2012 conference took place in San Francisco during 27-28 of June. Many developers around the globe were present there and...

CUPS reaches version 1.6.0!

CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems. We Linux users have been using CUPS...

Meet Linux Viruses

There exists a conventional wisdom that Linux viruses are non-existent entities. For most Linux users this might be surprising that Linux viruses do exist! Though...

The GUI Bloat Effect

Something dawned on me just yesterday. When using a slim and clean-lined theme or skin on GUI based software, the user can be easily...

Facebook Smartphone Coming in 2013

It’s been on the top of the list of technology rumors for some months but it has finally been unofficially confirmed via Bloomberg, Facebook...

All Platform, All Device Terminal for System Administrators

There’s a general perception that Server System Administrators are short, overweight lonely men with overgrown beards who work in dark dungeon like basements, maintaining...

Gooseberry – An alternative to Raspberry Pi

Gooseberry is another alternative to Raspberry Pi, and according to the manufacturers it is three times faster than its rival. This new berry comes...

Linux kernel 3.5 released

Let's see a quick summary of what have changed and what we should expect from the new Linux mainline 3.5 Kernel. ext4  metadata checksums support Every...

New look for Nautilus as revamped- Nautilus 3.5.4 arrives

Nautilus 3.5.4 is now updated and has new changes and is available for Ubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal repos. In its new avatar, Nautilus developers...

Makers Tale-New 3D game on JmonkeyEngine

This is a story purely for game developers. While gamers shall have their day out when full version of Maker’s Tale is out, here...

Raspbian – The best optimized distro for Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi is a tiny-sized single-board computer that costs only 30 Euros. Due to its high demand, the Rasberry Pi Foundation had to restrict...

HP and Itanium Future Belong to Linux

HP has been in the industry for a long time. And one of their key industry interests is in the server sector and the...

Wine 1.5.9 has been released!

Wine is a free and open source application that allows users to run Windows software on other operating systems. Wine is always under heavy development...