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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.

First off you need to install VLC. Go to videolan.org and follow the instructions there. VLSub is an extension that searches and downloads subtitles from opensubtitles.org using the hash of the video currently playing or its title. In that way, you don’t have to manually search for subtitles but trust VLSub to do the job for you

Although it's difficult for me to look at this piece's title and not think of mutant felines, it doesn't make the statement any less true. If you've ever used the tail command on log files, you'll instantly appreciate multitail. My friend (and LJ reader) Nick Danger introduced me to multitail, and I can't believe how useful it is. multitail will "tail" multiple files, split the screen to display them, notify of log file changes and so on. One of my favorite features is rather than show 100 lines of repeated log, it shows the line only once, and it says, "line repeats 100 times"—simple, but awesome.

The aTunes Team was proud to announce a few days ago the immediate availability for download of the stable aTunes 3.1.0 release of the popular music player and manager application for Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems. aTunes 3.1.0 is now able to store metadata for all kind of files, even unsupported ones, it's able to store ratings both in an external database and in local files, and it is able to download podcasts faster. Moreover, a new option to display a navigation table filter has been added in aTunes 3.1.0, as well as an option to hide the navigation tree and use only the navigation table to select elements.

The first release candidate for Wine 1.6 was announced today, which marks the beginning of the code freeze for the next release. Squeezing in before the code freeze is GLSL support for fixed-function vertex shaders and other changes. The prominent Wine 1.6-rc1 changes also include: New implementation of the typelib creation support; Support for desktop launchers in virtual desktop mode; Fixes for Japanese vertical text; New Croatian translation; and Various bug fixes.

calamariOS is an awesome SuSE Studio appliance designed for everyday computing needs. It has a built in firewall to keep you and your data safe. AppArmor is built in for an extra layer of security. calamariOS automatically checks for software updates and notifies you when an important update is released. calamariOS has a web browser, email application, music player, a special application called PlayOnLinux and more. PlayOnLinux makes it easy to run Windows software on Linux.

Today we're introducing the Ubuntu Touch Manager, a simple, yet intuitive application that will allow Ubuntu users to manage their Ubuntu Touch powered devices.

Recently, the Humble Indie Bundle 8 has been released, which now contains 11 exciting games for Linux. As always, some of the game titles are making a Linux debut and can either be downloaded directly from the HIB website or be redeemed in the Ubuntu Software Center and on Steam.

This week, we look at why developers are cheap bastards, why Windows 8 is failing and how smart developers generate lousy code.

r53dump is a shell script that will connect to AWS Route53 service and dump all zones in Bind format for the specified account. Logging is done to syslog (check /var/log/syslog). Multiple accounts, multiple zones are supported. "cli53" is used for all connectivity with AWS systems. Dumped zones can optionally be sent to s3 automatically.

It's surprisingly easier to do than KDE. Unfortunately, this only works for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and its derivatives, and not any newer versions, so enjoy this while you can!

In this first installation, I’m just going to look at the GTK based options. I’ll look at QT based Environments, and then some of the standalones in subsequent posts.

Password Less authentication to Linux servers makes the system admin's life easy. To Implement password less or Keys based authentication we have to generate Public and Private keys