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For those that have doubted the exclusive Phoronix claims for quite a while now that the Steam client and Source Engine are in fact being ported to Linux, the doubts can be nearly laid to rest. Even I began to wonder how long it would take before the clients for their popular games would be publicly released under Linux. However, after confirming the information perhaps a bit too soon, their level of Linux interest is much more clear after spending a day at their offices. A meeting topped off the day with Gabe Newell regarding Linux where he sounded more like a Linux saint than an ex-Microsoft employee. Valve does have some great plans for Linux beyond just shipping the client versions of Steam and their popular games on the Source Engine.

Its is almost tradition at this stage. A rumor surfaces at some point or another during the year, usually around the same time, that Valve are looking to bring their ubiquitous gaming platform to Linux. Usually these rumors are either fizzle out or are flat out denied and a plethora of excuses about poor market share, poor graphics performance and so on are given but when the inevitable (yet slightly late this year) rumor of Steam coming to Linux surfaced earlier today the stage was set slightly differently.

Prozgui is a download Accelerator free gui based and have a good performance when downloading activities. Be aware ProzGui is the result (development) of Prozilla a usage-based text mode.

The Darktable RAW photo editor and workflow manager for Linux (and experimental support for Mac OS X and Windows) is for non-destructive editing of RAW photo images. It includes common features such as cropping and exposure fixes, manipulation of color and tone channels, and advanced features like a Fujichrome Velvia film plugin (for smoother, more realistic saturation), HDR, and tethered shooting. I put the March 15 release of version 1.0 through the torture chamber, and even though the interface and workflow take some getting used to, it's a powerful editor for serious work.

Much awaited cloud storage service Google Drive is now live giving free 5 GB storage to every subscriber. The service can be accessed at drive.google.com. Google Drive supports over 30 types of files and the storage can be upgraded to a maximum of 16TB. A Linux client will be available soon for testing.

Clement Lefebvre announced last evening, April 24th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable version of Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204.

SPDY (Speedy) is an experiment with protocols for the web. Its goal is to reduce the latency of web pages. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module which supports the use of SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This allows for faster page loading and more efficient bandwidth utilization when loading https URLs in SPDY-enabled browsers.

Red Hat announced yesterday, April 24th, that the Beta release of the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 operating system is ready for download and testing.

Working with passwords is central to programming multi user applications, next in my on going series Python modules you should know is Passlib, a package that makes it easy for you to work with various password hashing schemes in Python.

Maybe this made me less timid with regards to inquiring about the internship, even though I knew it was a long shot; I figured, "I'm in my first semester of college and just finished my first actual project. I'm not ready to contribute to a real startup."

When Apple announced blow-out Q1 2012 revenues of $39.2 billion (up 59%), I noticed some rather amazing trends. Just how dominant has Apple become? Take a look at these Apple revenue and profit figures vs. other technology giants like Cisco Systems, Google, IBM, Microsoft and VMware. Here's the wild math.

Google has published the list of 60 student proposals that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012 for KDE. It means that 60 students will be able to work full-time on changing the world this summer! A big thank you to Google for making this possible. read more

When it comes to Linux distributions, it’s truly different strokes for different folks. Some folks want software that is truly free, meaning that they can do with it as they please. That’s where distros like Trisquel come in. Trisquel is based on Ubuntu, but it provides only free software. You will not find proprietary software included with it.

Sometimes running an application on Linux for the first time requires a little extra work. Some applications such as server services might not be installed as services, so you need to start those applications from the command line. For the user accounts that start the applications, set the execute permission flag (x)on the application files.

In this article, the author describes an optimization he used to improve the performance of a virtual machine running on his Ubuntu host.

Gameplay 1.2, a cross-platform, C++ game framework designed for learning and writing mobile and desktop games, has been released. Gameplay is an open source project hosted on Github and developed by Sean Paul and Steve Grenier, both graphics and game developers at Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry® smartphone and PlayBook tablet computer.

Followers of Linux gaming have known that Valve had a few employees dabble in Linux before, but not make commitments or investments in it. So a CEO saying “We want to fix this.” Is a major change and improvement.

The Cube 2 / Sauerbraten engine can now provide vastly improved graphics capabilities that can take better advantage of modern hardware thanks to Tesseract...

Confirmed yesterday was a new version of a popular but proprietary game engine that will work on Linux with its next release...

A short while ago, an article appeared in Linux Journal implying Git was the be-all and end-all of source code revision control systems ("Git—Revision Control Perfected" by Henry Van Styn, August 2011). I would like to challenge that assumption and declare to the world that the real perfect version control system is here, and its name is Mercurial.