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Big Irish computer retailer now selling laptop with KDE.

This very well may be the missing link between being able to completely exploit your virtual environment like it's bare metal.

Matthias Clasen has a special gift for you. He’s made a special live CD containing a complete Gnome 3.12 atop Fedora 20.

If you’ve had any experience appifying your favorite web services, you’ll notice that it’s pretty hit-and-miss — unless you’re using Gnome.

While Valve has been tinkering away at SteamOS, and the Steam distribution platform for Linux, Gabe Newell and company have been busy cementing an important relationship. Valve has officially joined The Linux Foundation.

Left 4 Dead 2, Valve’s swan song for its aging source engine, has finally stepped out of beta for Linux. Left 4 Dead 2 is now officially available with many official fixes in tow. The 4 year old game offers the following fixes over the last beta release.

You can run, but you can’t hide from Michael Larabel. If it’s electronic and has the potential to run Linux, chances are he’s put it through its paces with the Phoronix Test Suite.

Alex Preston’s Kickstarter for Hyper Light Drifter has been a runaway success. Having asked for only $27,000, he has –at the time of this writing– matriculated past the $500k mark. He is now working towards closing $600k to secure a well-earned masters degree in Kickstarter. Having backed 7 other Kickstarters himself, he is no stranger to the indie scene.

Ahhh… Nothing gives me more pleasure than the opportunity to mention my two favorite things together in one article; Sega & Linux.

I’ve you’ve ever wished to yourself –in your heart of hearts– that some rogue indie developers would take the best elements of The Lost Vikings, mash them up with Worms, and recreate the experience with the same visual style as Metal Slug, you’re in luck.

Developer Night Dive Studios has brought 2 DOS classics to Linux by packaging DOSBox and the respective game content together into one spiffy little steam installer! While it’s not certain why GOG is not able to make this sort of effort, one thing should definitely be expected; more classic games making a legitimate and monetized appearance in Linux.

Thunderbird, the mysteriously abandoned (sort-of) open source mail client makes its return on September 17th. Faithful users have been marooned on version 17, receiving only maintenance tune-ups along the way, but that’s all set to change.

A review of the games in The Humble Indie Bundle 9.

Audacity, everyone’s favorite open-source audio manipulator, matures into version 2.0.4. And with it come a bevy of changes that you are sure to exploit upon installation. Here is a list of the changes and improvements from the release notes.

It has been confirmed that Nuclear Dawn, the RTS/FPS hybrid game from Interwave studios, is being courted for the Linux platform.

Rhythmbox, the long standing default audio player for Gnome, has been updated to 3.0 after –more or less– an eternity.

A short discussion on the possibility of Saint's Row being ported to Linux.

So, what happens when Super Mario Bros. and Night At The Roxbury collide in outer space at the speed of light? Electronic Super Joy happens. Billed as a “brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music”, Electronic Super Joy does not look to disappoint; delivering retro-platforming, and low-res graphics in the typical indie style that some of us just can’t get enough of.

The Ubuntu Edge smartphone is the source of premature envy the world over. The fact that Ubuntu users can have the most powerful phone in the world–that’s yet to be seen–and not have to deal with a shoehorned installation of their intended operating system, is awesome. The device bodes well for potential Android users as well. Those users who want to have a truly exotic piece of hardware but not have to abandon Android as their primary operating system. The Ubuntu Edge has something for everyone, but will we ever be able to know what it is really capable of?

KDE developer Sergio Martens went on an emergency bug fixing marathon recently, discovering and fixing several bugs related excess memory usage across many core KDE applications and KDE PIM. These improvements are expected to land in KDE 4.11.