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Running Ubuntu on a Google Chromebook 22 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
A lot of people have jumped the ship on Google’s first entry to the PC market with it’s Chromebooks. A big part of the success is probably due to the low cost and reasonable good design of the machine...
Electronic Super Joy Gets Linux Early Access 9 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
So, what happens when Super Mario Bros. and Night At The Roxbury collide in outer space at the speed of light? Electronic Super Joy happens. Billed as a “brutally hard platformer set in a world of p...
KDE Connect For Android Shares Everything, Even Your Clipboard 9 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
Developer Albert Vaka has a very interesting GSoC project. In the wake of Ubuntu’s ‘convergance story‘, the prospect of integrating your phone with your computer–or even using your phone as a desktop...
SOL Laptop: The Mighty Penguin Will Now Take on the Sun 9 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
WeWi Telecommunications Inc. may be a small company, but that is not stopping them from coming out with some big ideas. The latest project from the London, Ontario, Canada group is the SOL Laptop. Th...
Can Bloomberg Save The Ubuntu Edge? 8 Aug 2013 | 11:50 pm
The Ubuntu Edge smartphone is the source of premature envy the world over. The fact that Ubuntu users can have the most powerful phone in the world–that’s yet to be seen–and not have to deal with a s...
Is Saint’s Row Coming To Linux? 8 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
I’ve often wondered what’s more upsetting; being set on fire only to have the fire put out with buckets of urine, or a new Humble Bundle for Windows only. Well, I’ve yet to be set of fire and put out...
Mir gains VT Switching Support in 13.10 Saucy 8 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
Phoronix reports today that Revision 943 of Canonical’s Xorg replacement, Mir, has finally gained support for switching virtual terminals. VT support for many Linux users is an absolute necessity, es...
HackRF Exceeds Kickstarter Goal Within Hours 1 Aug 2013 | 03:07 am
Earlier today, Michael Ossmann, founder of Great Scott Gadgets and creator of the Ubertooth One Bluetooth development platform, unleashed his latest project on Kickstarter to staggering success: in ju...
E17 May Finally Be Packaged For Fedora 20 18 Jul 2013 | 08:36 pm
Enlightment is a desktop environment that has been around for a very long time, and unlike other light wieght desktops such as Fluxbox, OpenBox and FVWM, Enlightment has mysteriously escaped being ava...
KDE 4.11 Gets Impromptu Memory Use Decrease Across KDE PIM, Others 18 Jul 2013 | 07:53 pm
KDE developer Sergio Martens went on an emergency bug fixing marathon recently, discovering and fixing several bugs related excess memory usage across many core KDE applications and KDE PIM. These im...
