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Manage a team of ghosthunters and free London from paranormal terror in turn-based battles. Personally I think this game is a little gem!

Apparently, an independent developer has announced recently that it started developing a GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the Linux uTorrent server software, written in C++ using Gtkmm, around the popular and powerful GTK+ toolkit, and called GuTorrent.

AMD has unleashed their latest beta driver for AMD graphics card holders, full of lots of goodies, but is it enough?

For those users with SPARC64 hardware, LLVM's Clang compiler has received support for this old architecture.

Papers, Please a game we have confirmed to you a few times to have a future Linux version has finally entered testing!

Auris launched a Kickstarter campaign for a portable, Android-based “Wily” streaming media player with a 7-inch touchscreen, 90dB speakers, WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI, and a webcam. Auris, which already sells an $80 “Skye” WiFi music receiver and a $50 “FreeDa” Bluetooth receiver, is now prepping an Android 4.2.2-based portable combination speaker and media-streamer called Wily. The […]

One of the drawbacks of buying a barebones PC like Intel’s NUC—at least if you’re a Windows user—is that it comes with no operating system. The big PC OEMs get Windows at a steep discount compared to end users, and you’ll have to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 for a full OEM Windows license (and more if you want a retail version with tech support)...

... Many Windows computers include features like Fastboot or Secure Boot that need to be disabled or circumvented to use Linux in UEFI mode, and while the NUC supports these features for Windows, they aren’t enabled by default. Installing Linux on the NUC should have been the easiest part of the whole process, but for most of our distributions it ended up being a gigantic pain, and that comes down to the NUC's EFI implementation.

Ubuntu is still using a lot of GNOME applications, including the file manager Nautilus (now Files), but that will change soon enough.

Unfortunately for some of you, Arch Linux is still not using the recently released Linux kernel 3.13. As such, Arch Linux 2014.02.01 is powered by Linux kernel 3.12.9, which is also the latest stable release of the upstream Linux 3.12 kernel series.

The idiom 'don't judge a book by its cover' can be extended to 'don't judge a computer game by its graphics'. Whilst many of the games featured in this article have unremarkable graphics, they have many redeeming qualities, including challenging gameplay, and stretching the brain.

Aside from the KDE and GNOME 3 desktop environments, Mageia 4 also features support for Cinnamon and MATE. This article presents screen shots from test installations of the Cinnamon, GNOME 3 and KDE desktops.

The developer of the beautiful and attractive Nitrux, Compass, and Flatter icon themes is preparing an ARM mini-computer called QtBox and designed to be portable, small (8.8cm x 8.8cm x 8.3cm), running the Nitrux 1.0 operating system and using the eye-candy KDE 4.12 desktop environment.

It’s common knowledge that Microsoft is making tons of money collecting licensing fees from makers of mobile devices running Android. Well, according to BGR, Redmond may be set to make more money licensing its own Windows Phone than from trolling. Don’t expect this to happen in the next few weeks or months, however.

SparkyLinux 'Xfce' has a few new features which will also be added to the next SparkyLinux release. So what is under the hood? Linux kernel 3.12; all packages upgraded from Debian's testing repositories as of 2014-01-29; Xfce 4.10; the same set of tools and applications which can be found in all SparkyLinux spins; added a boot-repair tool; added Plymouth with a Sparky theme; the uGet download manager has been upgraded from Debian's 'Sid' repository, it uses aria2 for downloading files as default.

When you meet the first time with GRE tunnelling you have to understand that GRE encapsulation requires 24 bytes and a lot of problems raise up , view http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk827/tk369/technologies_tec... In particular, Two Node (Controller+Compute) RDO Havana cluster on Fedora 20 hosts been built by myself per guidelines from http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/neutron-configs-for... was Neutron GRE cluster. Hence, for any instance has been setup (Fedora or Ubuntu) problem with network communication raises up immediately. Apt-get update just refuse to work on Ubuntu Salamander Server instance (default MTU value for Ethernet interface is 1500).

Major new features: updates to RPM 4.11 and urpmi, which has been given a thorough Mageia turnout and cleanup; Linux kernel 3.12 and systemd 208; GRUB is the default bootloader, GRUB 2 is available for testing; revamped package groupings for installation and rpmdrake; KDE 4.11, GNOME 3.10 and Xfce 4.10 desktops; LibreOffice 4.1.3; experimental UEFI support; FullHD+ resolution support.

With support for Windows XP running out here is a complete guide to showing how to dual boot Windows XP with Linux. Includes links for creating DVDs and USB drives, backing up data, preparing the drive and installing Linux.

I’m writing the following article from the perspective of a normal user that uses Linux (Arch Linux at the moment) exclusively, both at home and work, for over 12 hours daily, with GNOME 3 as the main desktop environment. A users with over ten years experience in open source desktops, years during which I’ve tested any known desktop environment/window manager.

On 28 February is when the E19 feature freeze is happening. Blumenkrantz says, "there is currently no set date or estimated date for E19. My only goal with regard to time is to release before July 2023, though I may be forced to delay until September 2026 depending on celestial alignments." In reality though, E19 will probably be released before the end of the calendar year -- just as E17 and E18 have seen December debuts the past two years.

DFI tipped its BT160 and BT161 Mini-ITX motherboards back in October with the launch of the Intel Atom E3800 (Bay Trail-I) system-on-chips. At the time, the company also promised seven other Atom E3800 based modules and SBCs, including three other Mini-ITX boards. These BT100, BT101, and BT103 Mini-ITX boards have yet to appear, and they lack the DFI ECX expansion interfaces found on the BT160 and BT161.