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While there are many interesting features to the Linux 3.9 kernel, there is some functionality you will not find yet within the mainline Linux kernel.

When asked if he believes that Valve's Steam Box would compete with Microsoft's Xbox business, Microsoft's president of Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick's answer was a simple and decisive "No."

In a way this sounds a little bit like Google’s Chrome OS, where most work is actually performed in cyberspace, doesn’t it? In a way, it’s very Zen. We have all these robots running around doing our bidding, each with its own separate identity, but all ultimately relying on a single brain.

Shadowrun Returns brings back one of our most original & cherished game settings as a 2D turn-based RPG with an emphasis on storytelling and tactical combat. Pre-Order today and join us in the dark underworld of Shadowrun’s dystopian cyberpunk reality where Man meets Magic meets Machine.

Ever since the advent of Steam for Linux, performance issues have miffed gamers; especially those who are using Ubuntu’s Unity and are forced to use Compiz as their display compositor. Those issues have been combated in several ways. Nvidia and AMD have been ‘stepping up to the plate’ so to speak with increased performance from their drivers, and developers have been working towards more granular performance enhancements geared towards playing well with Xorg.

Dungeon Fray is a fast paced roguelike game for Linux. The game features three playable classes, randomly generated levels, turn based combat and unlockable achievements and perks.

Dungeon Fray is a fast paced roguelike game for Windows and Linux. The game features three playable classes, randomly generated levels, turn based combat and unlockable achievements and perks.

Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. This feature works with PHP-FPM (starting with PHP 5.3) and FastCGI (all PHP 5.x versions). This tutorial shows how to build PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on an Ubuntu 12.04 server. These PHP versions can be used together with the default PHP (installed through apt) in ISPConfig.

Why 12.04 and or only LTS releases? With each release hardware gets dropped. Not a good thing if your trying to keep an aging computer fully supported, working as intended and simply nice, fast and capable. Although not an official LTS release for Lubuntu. It is the only defacto one.

Bloom: Memories is a beautiful artistic take on theaction-adventure / RPG genre that carries players through an epic journey following the theme of the “purest love”; that between a mother and her child.

DNS, Domain Name System, translates hostnames or URLs into IP addresses. For example if we type http://www.unixmen.com in browser, the DNS server translates the domain name into its associated ip address. Since the IP addresses are hard to remember, DNS servers are used to translate the hostnames like http://www.unixmen.com to 173.xxx.xx.xxx. So it makes easy to remember the domain names instead of its ip address.

Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.17, is out. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. Notable user-visible changes include: Install the KeePassX password manager with a configuration and documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database; upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr; do not allow listing all available fonts; improve default spellchecker dictionary selection; disable the add-ons automatic update feature; remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation; synchronise some preferences set by Torbutton to be ready when it stops setting these; disable navigation timing; disable SPDY.

Building the Linux kernel with LLVM/Clang rather than GCC continues to be a big focus within the embedded Linux community...

Humble Bundle V has been released with 6 games for Linux and Android and can be purchased in the next 10 days. The price for the bundle, as usual, sets everyone by himself.

CPU-Z is a freeware system profiler (system monitor) application for Microsoft Windows (for all versions from Windows XP on) that detects the central processing unit, RAM, motherboard chipset, and other hardware features of a modern personal computer, and presents the information in one window.

I am concerned with the current status of Ubuntu, not because of the tension on the community or the new software being put out. I am concerned because I feel my time and contributions might go to waste and fall on deaf ears. As leader of a LoCo, how do I know if the work I am putting in is even going to matter in two months when 13.04 comes out? Is my work still relevant because it has nothing to do with a cell phone, nothing to do with a display server, and nothing that in any way is a direct profit source for the Canonical.

I hate typing long shell commands, so I often create for myself short shell scripts that perform common tasks for me. I can hard-code all those options and arguments. Sometimes, though, there are a few bits that I want to change on a run or I don’t want to hard code into a shell script. Here’s an excellent example: I don’t want my password stored in a shell script. Ideally, what I want is to be prompted for my password. There is a very simple shell built-in that you can use to do this: read. Here’s how it’s used.

I’m not a big advocate for one Linux distribution over another. Or maybe I’m fooling myself. I pretty much run Debian GNU/Linux (as it’s officially known) on just about anything. I say I’m not a “big advocate”/fanboy because I’m always open to something new. I flirt with Fedora. And Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu. Also Crunchbang. I like what I see in Fuduntu. I think Stella fills a real need.

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages and other information that is intended for display in a web browser. Each markup code is known as an element or a tag. The web developer uses these elements to format different parts of the document. The elements tell the web browser how to display the information (both text and images) to the user.

Microsoft continues publishing new Linux kernel patches for improving support of its Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor for Linux guests...