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Linux gamers, rejoice! Yesterday, as announced, Valve has released the beta version of its successful first-person shooter Left 4 Dead 2 for all game owners. The game is based on the current Valve's game engine Source and is especially popular with the co-op fans.

The equivalent of Comics for computers are the Comic book archive files that mainly consist of a series of image files, typically PNG (lossless compression) or JPEG (lossy compression) files, stored as a single archive file. Occasionally GIF, BMP, and TIFF files are seen. Folders may be used to group images.

As anticipated, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" has been officially released this weekend...

The German game publisher Runesoft has released the "point-and-click" adventure Jack Keane on the Indie gaming platform Desura. This game is based on the free rendering engine OGRE and has won numerous game awards.

The first maintenance release of the stable PyGObject 3.8 library for the GNOME desktop environment has been announced some time ago, fixing a few bugs and introducing new rules.

To hell with the Linux Desktop. It will never matter unless it comes pre-installed on devices selling at Best Buy, etc. Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz explains why.

YUM Stands for Yellowdog Updater Modified. YUM is an interactive, rpm based, package manager. Yum is available in different Linux OS Like Redhat , Centos , Fedora etc.

Building on the ground-breaking work of billionaire genius Tony Stark, the first Linux-powered Iron Man suits may soon be within the reach of homebrew builders.

Matthias Clasen had the pleasure of announcing last evening, May 3, that the first development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.10 desktop environment is ready for download and testing.

Salvation Prophecy is a military space epic. Human, mutant, and robotic factions are at war for galactic domination.

Just days after landing some OpenGL performance tweaks, Intel's Eric Anholt has committed some more performance optimizations for the Intel i965 Mesa driver...

Scheme is a very simple language with a very simple syntax based on s-expressions. Its simplicity has been fundamental in making it a popular introductory language. It follows a minimalist design philosophy specifying a small standard core with powerful tools for language extension. This philosophy helps make Scheme a programming language that can be learned over a weekend. Nevertheless, Scheme is a very versatile language and has been used to write a diverse range of applications such as financial analysis tools, compilers, virtual reality systems, as well as more mundane software.

Build & Defend the mish mash of several game types has been updated after months of no word, great to see!

htop is an ncurses process viewer for Linux. It is somehow similar to top but much better. In this article, I will enumerate several useful tricks with htop. These tricks will be useful for those who work as a sysadmin.

So with some recent titles including Brutal Legend and now Stacking and Costume Quest all hitting the Steam Linux Database and no weekly sales on Humble could the time be ripe for a Humble Double Fine Bundle?

Today, one of the most successful PC games, Portal, has been released for Linux. While a lot of Linux gamers are still waiting for the release of Left 4 Dead for Linux, they can enjoy the award-winning game Portal, as a foretaste of the upcoming Valve's titles for Linux.

This week we explore, non-existant Windows 8 app revenue, the state of 3D printing and cloud naysayers needing to face reality.

The second point release of the XBMC Media Center 12 software has been announced last evening, May 3, 2013, for the Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android and Raspberry Pi platforms.

phpMyAdmin, the popular browser-based software for MySQL database administration, has hit a significant milestone with the release of phpMyAdmin 4.0.0...

Tablet shipments continued to “surge” in the first quarter of 2013, growing 142 percent year-over-year, according to market analyst IDC’s latest “Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker” report. Additionally, Android vendors had an extremely strong first quarter, shipping 27.8 million tablets versus Apple’s 10.5 million iPad and iPad mini devices. More tablets shipped during the first quarter [...]The post Android trounces Apple in Q1 2013 tablet shipments appeared first on LinuxGizmos.com.