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Desura has launched a new Alpha Funding initiative very similar to other crowdfunding projects like Kickstarter and 8 bit Funding. 5 Indie games have been selected as launch titles and out of which 3 will have Linux versions. The idea behind alphafunding is simple, fans get instant access to their favorite games with the understanding that the game might be buggy and isn't complete - but frequent updates will add polish over time. The developers can then fund the games continued creation, giving supporters early access to the latest and greatest content.

This article is an attempt to provide basic information about disk naming and partition numbering conventions, in non-technical terms, to those new to Linux. I believe a basic understanding of all the aspects concerning how a disk is referenced and partitioned will put you in a better position to troubleshoot installation and disk-related problems.

Basic information about partition tables and the difference between primary and logical partitions will be covered.

This is a script that will install Global Menu in Fedora 15 with Gnome 3 Shell.

While The Bodhi Guide to Enlightenment is targeted specifically at the use of Enlightenment on Bodhi Linux, users of Enlightenment on any platform will find the guide useful. In conjunction with the release of Bodhi Linux 1.2.0 the Bodhi Doc Team and I have converted The Bodhi Guide to Enlightenment to HTML to include with the default installation of the OS.

As we all know, Nmap (Network Mapper) is a stealth port scanner widely used by network security experts (including forensics & Pen-testing Experts). In this article we’ll see the different types of Nmap Scans, its techniques, understanding the purpose and goals of each scan , its advantages or disadvantages over other scanning tools, which could be better at evading firewalls & IDS (To a certain extent) and much more. In this first part, I have made my best to explain the basic scanning techniques, Host discovery options, port scanning options, techniques used in detecting Operating system & services running on the system.

While AMD's open-source strategy was announced on Phoronix on 7 September 2007, it was on 17 September of the same year that the Novell/SUSE developers did their first public release of their xf86-video-radeonhd driver. This was the X.Org driver created by the Novell Linux engineers in months prior for R500 and R600 GPUs. Here is some special reading -- a letter that was volleyed from Novell to AMD that kicked off this entire process -- to celebrate what would have been the fourth birthday of this open-source Linux driver.

Many Linux distributions have taken the path of easy GUI-based installation, in order to appeal to a broader mix of users. But not Arch Linux, which emphasises simplicity of technical complexity over general usability. Richard Hillesley explains.

In the Linux world the releases of the Gnome 3 and Unity desktops have been pushing a touch-geared interface not only to touch-screen devices, but also the large screen of your home PC! Mac's OSX followed this line of thinking and it appears Microsoft's Window 8 will be no different...

Package management on Linux systems has always been the subject of endless discussions, flamefests and bickering. Nonetheless, regardless of what one prefers, there's something for everyone, if not in distro X, then maybe in distro Y. Some swear by binary package management, others say that the only true way is compilation from source. Today we will focus on two distributions that offer the best of both worlds : Arch Linux and Slackware.

It's just as good as before, and it's rolling-release now too, meaning it's super-good! Yay!

The awesome Wildfire Games have unleashed another Alpha of 0 A.D.

Add your Facebook events to your Google Calendar with a simple extension for the Chrome browser.

If you plan to host databases in the cloud, you should be attuned to platform differences

After presenting this week at XDC2011 Chicago about TimeGraph, an open-source GPU command scheduler, and PathScale's GPGPU run-tiume, Shinpei Kato has now taken to the Nouveau list with his proposal...

Intel released an open source engine for JavaScript that will let the language tap into multi-core CPUs and their vector extensions. Code-named & River Trail,& the Parallel Extensions for JavaScript will extend browser-based apps into new areas, such as photo and video editing, physics simulation, and 3-D gaming, according to the company....

Oracle APEX, HTML5, Force.com Cloud Apps, and CoffeeScript

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) have been natively ported to the Sony PlayStation 3 console...

Prepaid phone provider Boost Mobile announced a mid-range Samsung smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard and a $230 no-contract price tag. The Samsung Transform Ultra runs Android 2.3 on a 1GHz processor, and offers 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, a three-megapixel camera, a front-facing VGA webcam, and Android Market support, the mobile provider says....

Canonical announced that lots of new games, books and magazines will be available in the Ubuntu Software Center for all Ubuntu users.

"OpenIndiana oi_151a has been released, this release comes exactly one year after the first release, oi_147. This build brings a wide variety of enhancements,openindiana including being the first build based on Illumos. Notable changes to the kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana's oi_148 release includes KVM