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It’s been a long time since a desktop environment has caused so much controversy in the FOSS universe. How long? It is really hard to say, since the last time I can recall any kind of user backlash and retreat was over half a decade ago when the KDE project announced KDE 4.0.

Wine 1.5.1 was released today as the second development release following last month's stable Wine 1.4 release...

Another week comes to an end, another weekend arrives with plenty of free time to spent hopefully. 2 new great games for the linux platform (and not only) seek for your attention this weekend. The one is threatening to consume your brain’s gray matter, and the other is promising to give you a ride you’ll never forget. Let’s check them out!

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 11.10 users how to make their favorite wallpaper appear at the login screen.

In two recent reviews of Bodhi Linux the authors mucked up a few of the details concerning compositing and E17. Today I would like to clarify a few things about using compositing with Enlightenment DR17.

Do you want to play a game with extreme violence in a background populated with characters that are American Caricatures ? Welcome to Postal 2.

The game is not new (first released in 2003) but has been recently released on Desura, a thing that make it really easy to be installed on our Linux box.

Postal 2 (stylized as Postal²) is a first-person shooter video game by Running with Scissors, and it is the sequel to the 1997 game Postal. Both are intentionally highly controversial due to high levels of violence and stereotyping. Unlike its predecessor, Postal 2 is played completely in first-person based on the Unreal Engine.

In m23 12.2 rock, CentOS 6.2 now complements the list of distributions to be installed and administered. Additionally, some new features were added, the help texts have been revised and several bugs were fixed.

AMD announced the release of AMD / ATI Catalyst 12.3, the biggest news is that Catalyst 12.3 now fully supports the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 and AMD Radeon HD 7700 series of products,

One of the targeted mobile platforms to target with Qt 5.0 has been Apple's iOS, but it looks like some technical problems may prevent Qt5 from coming to your iPhone or iPad...

Gabe Newell of Valve, the company behind Steam and the Source Engine, has allegedly sent over a message to Phoronix...

The DRM render-nodes work has been revived. This DRM branch originally started out when working on support for enabling two X.Org Servers to run off of a single graphics card...

In this review we concentrate on the interesting promise of reduced power consumption of the latest generation CedarView Atom by testing power draw of the Intel DN2800MT mini-ITX motherboard, which features a CedarView dual-core Atom N2800. We have done a series of comparative power consumption tests with various Linux distros (and used Windows 7 as reference).

This is one of those things that doesn't get explained much, because it's almost too simple to document: it's often useful to keep a few Debian package files (.deb files, used in Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux distributions derived from them) available for installation, either on your local host or on other computers on the same local-area network (LAN). You can make these available as an extra "repository" for your APT system, so that APT-based package tools (apt-get, Aptitude, Synaptic, etc) can access them. This makes managing these special packages just like your other packages, which can solve a lot of problems.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

David Airlie has a last-minute pull request for the Linux 3.4 kernel following last week's main DRM pull. This latest Git pull request is set to introduce DMA-BUF PRIME support in the mainline kernel...

ShilaOS is released. ShilaOS is an Ubuntu remix with a theme dedicated to Shila Amzah, a popular Malaysian singer.

A few days ago I sent an e-mail to the CEO of Valve - Gabe Newell - in which I showed our wish for Steam for Linux and I have also asked him about the release date of Steam for Linux.

At this year's Game Developers Conference Sixense Entertainment has announced a new motion-sensing game controller Razer Hydra for the PC. This controller is similar to the other motion controllers such as Wii, Move or Kinect, but unlike these it promises a much better precision through the use of magnetic fields...

Google's Go programming language has reached version 1.0. Go represents Google's attempt to combine the best attributes of dynamically typed language with those of statically typed, compiled langauges. "Google's computer scientists believe there's a better mousetrap and they're right, but ... they have to be aware that [widespread adoption is] going to be a long process," said IDC's Al Hilwa.

KDE developer Mek is working on getting Calligra work on Android. The app is based on QWidget and is working fine on a N900.

Overview of 10 most popular feed readers for Ubuntu, including Liferea, RSSOwl, Akregator or BlogBridge.