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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.

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.