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We talk to Linux Game Developer Ethan Lee on the current state of games for Linux, and how Steam will help revolutionise it

At the request of many Phoronix readers following the release of updated Arch Linux media, here are some new Arch Linux benchmarks. However, this is not just Arch vs. Ubuntu, but rather a larger Linux distribution performance comparison. In this article are benchmark results from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, CentOS 6.2, Fedora 17, Slackware 14.0 Beta, and Arch Linux.

The developers behind the Stella Linux operating system have announced last evening, July 30th, that version 6.3 of the Stella distribution is now available for download.

News library apps offer the benefit of making reading the latest news, magazines, and blogs in a simple and intuitive way. Browsing the web on an Android device can be a frustrating experience. Stripped down mobile websites offer an incomplete solution. Standard websites often require constant zooming in and out to read the content especially on devices with low screen resolutions. This can make keeping on top of the latest world and social news more difficult than it needs to be.

Linux distro world is no longer just about Red Hat, Ubuntu and SUSE

The Debian Release Team, through Adam D. Barratt, announced a few days ago on their mailing list that the next major release of the Debian operating system will be named Jessie.

I've spent a lot of my last year in and out of hospitals...both with my own problems as well as Diane's. One thing I noticed almost immediately is that every computer screen I saw was running Microsoft Windows XP Professional. With the numbers quoted in the following article, the cost of migrating large enterprises over to Windows 7, one would think switching to Linux might be the answer. Not according to an IT guy at Seton Williamson Hospital in Round Rock. I shook my head as I hung up the phone, realizing just what an uphill battle he faces, either way he goes. Switching to Linux would probably save them money in comparison, but getting vendors and other business associates in synch would be a nightmare. All they can do, seemingly, is pour their money into the Microsoft Monopoly and curse the cost of doing business.

ProxLinux 2.2 has arrived! The rebuild of ProxLinux 2 is here and it's more stable than ever. In this release there's a new panel theme, icon theme, multiple bug fixes and lots of other notable improvements in the system! The king of lightweight operating systems is back and better than ever, breathing some life into that computer of yours and making it productive again.

Warsow 1.0 was released on Sunday as a major update to this multi-platform open-source game that actually has good game artwork, is quite unique and interesting, and serves as a decent Linux OpenGL benchmark...

This is my first look at Linux Mint 13 Xfce. I currently use Linux Mint 12 on my Linux Box and I enjoy using it. The Xfce Desktop is alot lighter than KDE and others. Linux Mint provides a few different blends of Desktop managers. All are available for free to download at their site http://www.linuxmint.com where donations are accepted.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, July 30th, the immediate availability for download of the seventh maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series.

Microsoft could be making a huge strategic error by releasing the consumer version of the Surface tablet ahead of the enterprise one. If it has any hope at all in the tablet market, and I don't give it much of a chance, the enterprise side is clearly its best shot.

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has voiced concerns about what could happen to source code distributed under free software licences if the company providing the software goes bankrupt and enters insolvency proceedings. Especially in Germany, the current rules in this area of law are not well explored. Speaking to The H's associates at heise open, Matthias Kirschner, who coordinates German matters for the foundation, explained that a bankruptcy court in Germany could currently rescind the free software licence and all rights granted by it after the fact.

For at least some hardware, it looks like the Linux 3.5 kernel has regressed and is burning through noticeably more power than its predecessor. Over the weekend a new mailing list thread began that was entitled "Massive power regression going 3.4->3.5" pertaining to a power problem in this most recent Linux kernel release. This just wasn't a random user complaining of a "massive power regression" but James Bottomley, a Linux kernel developer veteran.

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the release of Calculate Linux 12.0, a Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers: "Calculate Linux 12.0 released. Major changes: Calculate Utilities 3 are now used to install and set up your system - network client-server solutions via SOAP/WSDL are supported, both console and graphical interfaces are implemented, multiple installations are supported, system settings can now be configured either from the command line or in a graphical environment.

Stallman has said what was expected from him, while he admits that games like Steam will make GNU/Linux popular he also warned about such games.

"In open source software communities, few events are as exciting as the release of a new operating system. Next month, Todd Robinson will release a Linux-based desktop operating system in a single day. Thirty-one times in a row.

Expect the first release on Wednesday.

Security researcher Jonathan Brossard created a proof-of-concept hardware backdoor called Rakshasa that replaces a computer's BIOS (Basic Input Output System) and can compromise the operating system at boot time without leaving traces on the hard drive. Brossard, who is CEO and security research engineer at French security company Toucan System, demonstrated how the malware works at the Defcon hacker conference on Saturday, after also presenting it at the Black Hat security conference on Thursday.

Tech behemoths enter the ring for four-week bout Apple and Samsung's tit-for-tat patent posturing will finally come to a head in the US today, as jury selection starts on a trial that could kill a massive audience for Samsung stuff, and result in a win (or loss) of billions of dollars for either side.…

A new version, new leadership, new support and a workaround for a bug in JDK 7's InvokeDynamic are the latest developments for the project that lets Ruby on Rails applications run on JBoss's Application Server