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Critically Acclaimed realistic first person shooter Receiver is now available for Linux. The game has been developed by Wolfire Games, creators of popular cross platform game Overgrowth and Humble Indie Bundles.

Being roughly half-way through the Linux 3.7 kernel development cycle, here's a recap of some of the most interesting features for this forthcoming major kernel release...

Canonical has relesed a Desktop Installer app which allows you to install Ubuntu 12.10 on the Nexus 7 tablet with one click. Suitable only for devs for now.

Jono Bacon announced yesterday, October 26th, on his personal blog that the upcoming Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) operating system will support the Nexus 7 tablet from Google.

In Part 1 of this series, I talked about what Kickstarter was, and how it has helped developers create games which may not have otherwise existed. Wasteland 2 is a prime example of this. Funded nearly half a year ago, the sequel to Wasteland was more than 2 decades overdue. While I could attempt to explain why Wasteland 2 took so long coming to fruition, their Kickstarter video quite humorously details Brian Fargo’s own feelings on the subject. I got in contact with inXile’s Design Director Chris Keenan to chat about the upcoming Wasteland 2.

Like many others, I’ve been patiently awaiting the arrival of my Raspberry Pi order. For now, I have lots of time to figure out what to do with it once it arrives. I have a few projects I’d like to do, but one in particular stands out – Advanced Alarm Clock. I certainly can’t take credit for the initial idea of making an advanced alarm clock out of a Raspberry Pi computer, but I do look forward to making one just how I want it to be.

Xubuntu is the lighter weight brother of the ever popular Ubuntu family of Linux distributions. At the forefront, XFCE is the desktop environment of choice and it removes all the bells and whistles that we currently see in the star of the show, Ubuntu. It’s not just focused on older systems but those who want a great looking desktop and don’t need the extras.

I have long been an advocate of choice, particularly when it comes to computing. I often spend my time helping answer questions related to Linux in the Alternative Operating System section of here at Overclockers.com or on the Linux Mint forums. I also help people locally when I can and derive my living from the Penguin. Recently, Steam has officially announced they would be supporting Linux. This has set the Linux gaming world a buzz. After all this could mean a wider adoption from the mass public which might propel Linux to newer and greater heights.

The electronic design market has witnessed rapid expansion in recent years, with the market becoming increasingly more global. With the rise of semiconductor industries in many emerging countries, such as China, good quality EDA software is in strong demand.

In the week ending 27 October - Google Drive clients open backdoors, Wayland hit its 1.0 milestone and the Raspberry Pi got its ARM code open sourced. Also, Mozilla and CryptoParties, and attacking TrueCrypt

With the release of version 1.3, the team at the Yocto Project has added a number of developer-visible features to its embedded distribution builder. First announced in October 2010, the open source collaboration project (a Linux Foundation workgroup) is aimed at device builders. It provides templates, tools and methods for developers to create Linux-based systems for various embedded systems and processor architectures such as ARM, MIPS, PPC or x86.

Matthias Clasen has announced a few hours ago, October 26th, the first development release of the GNOME 3.8 desktop environment.

Head on over to ValveSoftware.com to participate in their Linux survey, which is used to find new Linux gamers to get involved with the beta testing process. "We're looking for Linux gamers to install and test our new Steam for Linux client. We are primarily interested in experienced Linux users. In order to take the survey, you need to first login with your Steam account to link your response with your Steam ID."

Version 9.2 of the wiki, CMS and groupware solution introduces the Tiki Server Check, a feature for testing whether server environment meets Tiki's minimum requirements

Parallella is an attempt to make Linux parallel computing easier and is advertised as a "supercomputer for everyone", but will it come to fruition?..

Internet memes—those bite-sized, ephemeral cultural artifacts that are shared and remixed over the Web—seem to be evermore pervasive online and offline. Many of them feature reoccurring characters, like Courage Wolf, Good Guy Greg, and Business Cat. They are "characters" in the sense that they are defined by a single unwavering archetype, but what sets them apart from traditional literary characters is that they aren't attached to stories.

very Detail Matters Round 2 is now open and aims to make Gnome 3.8 the most polished version yet. Don’t get fooled by “details”, this isn’t about details at all! This project is a really good opportunity to make a contribution to Gnome and as Allan Day says “If you fix just one bug, you can make a real difference to Gnome 3?. So, pick a bug, and get hacking!

According to its developers, version 2.5 of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a Java-based open source web framework for Ajax applications, offers significant performance improvements. Apparently, the overall code base has been reduced by 20 per cent, and the download size of the sample application dropped 39 per cent.

This week we explore why some users want to give up Java, how Google Compute Engine could challenge AWS and the status of the HTML5 Apps platform.

Sometimes you need to move a web site from one server to another. Instead of downloading the web site from the old server to your PC via FTP and uploading it from your PC to the new server, it would save a lot of time to simply copy the web site from one server to the other. This tutorial explains how to use Wget to download/move a web site from one server to the other via http://FTP.