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The following tutorial will teach Arch Linux users how to transfer files from their operating system to an Android powered device (phone or tablet) or vice versa, using a graphical application called gMTP.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

OpenSXCE 2013.05 is out in the wild as the community revival of the Solaris Express Community Edition...

It looks like with the Linux 3.11 kernel there is finally the potential for the VIA DRM graphics driver that's long been in development to enter the mainline kernel source tree. The driver is totally complete but we wanted to merge it so people with newer hardware that has HDMI/DVI-D support can be able to run X windows. Your xorg driver does not implement HDMI/DVI in UMS mode and we don't have the resources to do this work. Basic TTM/GEM is supported but currently you can't run any acceleration with the command queue. Over the next 6 months this should be implemented.

Yesterday the ROSA Company announced the release of ROSA Desktop Fresh R1, "a new name distribution based on the ROSA Fresh platform." The announcement explained that this new "R" series is for "advanced users and enthusiasts who will appreciate rich functionality and freshness of distribution components without serious loss of quality."

Linux 3.10 sees improvements in the way lost packets at the end of TCP transactions are handled, speeding up HTTP data transfer. It also sees the addition of support for VLAN stacking and Realtek's RTL8188EE wireless chip.

The visually-amazing Unigine Engine now supports asynchronous Terrain data streaming and other new functionality. Beyond supporting terrain data streaming in a fully asynchronous manner now, other terrain improvements were made. Additionally, there's now a landscape plug-in for creating huge seamless scenes with a virtually unlimited number of terrain objects, each up to 16385 x 16385 in size.

Verdun is a squad based massive multiplayer first person shooter set in the first world war. Inspired by the infamous battle of Verdun in 1916 players are able to take part in never seen before WWI action. Made by 3 indie developers from BlackMill and M2H. There is a beta version available for download and also a trailer movie of what can be expected.

StatusNet is open-source software used to setup micro-blogging site similar to Twitter. In this article, I use CentOS 6.4 to setup this website. My hostname and IP Address are server.unixmen.com and 192.168.1.200/24, respectively. Change these values as per your setup.

WordPress instantly springs to mind when any project is planned that needs a content management system. However, WordPress can be complicated, offering more bells and whistles than actually needed or wanted. Whilst it is always tempting to stick with familiar territory, this can actually stifle creativity and does not enhance an individual's skill-set.

GamingOnLinux brings you the first part of an exclusive interview with the many developers and Linux maintainers of 'Alien Arena', a free multiplayer fast-paced deathmatch FPS pitting Humans versus Martians.

Long ago, I wrote an article about the tools to check hardware specs ( and another article about inxi ). But these tools are to use in the terminal only. So if you need some GUI tool to check the hardware info in Linux, here are my 2 favorite GUI tools you can use..

Drifter is a really great looking 2.5D space trading game that we covered recently about a Linux version incoming, well it's now here!

While the Intel Haswell CPUs were just launched days ago, there's already quite a Linux story to them. The Haswell CPU is interesting and the performance is good, but there's still extra headroom to make especially when it comes to the graphics driver and performance relative to Intel's Windows driver. Even so, the Intel Haswell Linux support has already evolved a great deal.

A few minutes ago, Greg Kroah-Hartman happily announced that the fifth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.9 kernel series is now available for download.

Tagged on Friday was the first Wine 1.6 release candidate. For those curious about what will be found in this major release of Wine, in this article is a feature overview of Wine 1.6.

Void Linux is a rolling-release Linux distribution that focuses upon speed, reliability, and flexibility. Void Linux is built from scratch, deploys its own XBPS package manager, and builds upon existing packages like systemd and DKMS. Void Linux with its package manager, XBPS, currently has over 3,000 packages for x86, x86_64, and ARMv6 hard-float architectures. With this from-scratch distribution, systemd is used as the system/session manager, a simplified DKMS is used for third-party kernel modules, RAMdisk images are made by Dracut, and there's realtime VM-based package building for this rolling release distribution.

The developers behind the Unvanquished first-person shooter game announced a few days ago that the sixteenth Alpha release is available for download and testing. Unvanquished Alpha 16 adds a long-requested feature, minimaps, which is now displayed for all new maps and for most of the commonly played Tremulous maps. This release also brings renderer improvements, allowing mappers to use multiple regions with separate color grades and blend them where appropriate. Also, color grading effects have been added to the game, making the screen desaturated when the player dies, and fade it into red (for humans) or grayscale (for aliens) when the player takes damage.

As the first point release since the exciting release of Wayland/Weston 1.1, important bug-fixes have landed for the display protocol's reference compositor. There weren't any worthwhile Wayland changes to warrant a 1.1.1 release, but Weston 1.1.1 was tagged last night by Kristian Høgsberg. Some of the prominent bug-fixes for Weston 1.1.1 are for monitor hot-plugging, evdev crashes, missing DPMS issue, and other changes.

Javier Jardón Cabezas from the GNOME Release Team announced a couple of days ago that the second development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.10 desktop environment is ready for download and testing. This is the first release of the GNOME desktop environment without any GConf dependency, which means that the team did a great job cleaning up the code. The release is available for download right now from the main GNOME FTP server. GNOME 3.9.2 brings numerous updated core components and libraries, as well as several improvements to basic applications, and the usual bugfixes and updated translations.