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Since Ubuntu’s announcement of the Mir display manager, the fate of Ubuntu derivatives such as Kubuntu and Linux Mint have been questioned and discussed by both the community and it’s leaders. Finally, one of those leaders has made its path clear. Clement Lefebvre has come forward in the Linux Mint Blog to announce that Linux Mint will be sticking with Xorg.

It’s long been the tradition in Humble Bundle for Linux buyers to outspend other platforms per payment, but this time Linux users have won another category; total payments by platform. How on the heels of Linux encroaching Apple’s territory in Steam usage, this is just phenomenal. But what does it mean?

Today in his personal blog, Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome, and one of the most polarizing personalities in the free software world, announced that he is finished with the Linux platform –at least for personal use.

To the average user, the announcement of Mir is simply news of something that’s going to ‘happen’. To the seasoned user, Mir raises a lot of questions.

KDE has never been a dog, but if there is one thing in life that is better than a beautiful woman, it’s one with no clothes. And that’s precisely what we’re going to do with KDE today. This guide will show you how to install and use the Oxygen-transparent theme for KDE 4.10 in Kubuntu 12.10.

Using vanilla Debian and want to play Steam without making a mess? One developer has the answer.

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.

MDM, the Mint Display Manager, now offers an awesome features for artists and web developers that want to design attractive login screens for Linux.

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.

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement — or today, depending where you are — of the availability of KDE 4.10, the software compilation has already been packaged by the hard working Kubuntu team over at Blue Systems. This should come as a surprise to no one, as the Kubuntu team has a healthy track record of bringing packages to backports as soon as possible. Are you using Kubuntu but haven’t seen your update yet? You might not have the backports repository enabled. Simply follow these steps to install it to your system an join the bleeding edge..

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 Arch.

Canonical Kernel Team Manager Leann Ogasawara had this to say during the Hangout:

So, with such success, why would Google needs to add any credibility to their already successful niche computing platform? Business, that’s why. And Lenovo is prepared to deliver savvy business folk what their hearts truly desire; a Thinkpad.

Software firm Sortasoft LLC, of Brooklyn, NY, aims to bring a fresh and innovative RPG to Linux, and it’s not too short of it’s financial backing goals; but it hasn’t reached them either.

Well, it seems that after 2 decades –or probably 15 years– of headaches setting up multiple monitors in Linux, things are finally turning around in the user’s favor, or rather, KDE users favor. In the beginning, there was X. X allowed –and still allows for– WIMP interaction on the Linux platform.

Those that are feeling a little miffed by the latest Humble THQ Bundle are probably anxiously awaiting the promised Humble Indie Bundle 7. Bundle number 7 is currently being promised on the Humble Bundle homepage to those users that are not bashful with their email addresses. While no communication has been sent by the Humble Gang yet, there are a few details available.

If there is one thing we can all count on in the open source blogosphere, it’s Linus Torvalds no bullshit approach to communicating with the world. That same no bullshit approach was not absent today when Linus moved to officially axe “ancient 386 support” from Linux. Ancient? You bet. Support for the 386 architecture has been lingering along within the Linux Kernel since day one, 1991. Well now it seems that it is ready to jump into a binary casket, finally, long after it’s relevance and usefulness have passed.

WordPress, everyone’s favorite open source comtent management system, reached version 3.5 today. Introduced with the release is a bevy of new features that are sure the leave the first half of the 3.x series in the dust.

Trojitá is a small, light, and fast IMAP e-mail client built with Qt. Now, Trojitá is officially a part of the KDE project, and one of the first applications in the whole suite to support Qt5. The announcement comes as a surprise to us, as there is already a well established e-mail client and PIM suite within KDE that takes advantage of KDE as a desktop environment.

In an overwhelming majority vote, the city council in Bern, Switzerland has moved to implement all future infrastructure with open source technologies. The “Party Motion”, as it is called in Switzerland, was submitted over a year ago, and has finally been realized. Plans to move forward with open source design, strategy and implementation should begin immediately.

My very first though was a foolish one; “They ported all of this games to Linux and I haven’t heard about even one of them until now?” Very foolish.