September 23, 2013
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Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve and its Steam game platform, wasn’t kidding when he said at LinuxCon in New Orleans that “Linux is the future of gaming.” Valve is releasing, in advance of the expected announcement of its SteamBox Linux-powered gaming … Continue reading
September 16, 2013
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New Orleans: If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times: The reason why desktop Linux hasn’t made it is because of its lack of games. Thanks to Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve and its Steam game platform, … Continue reading
August 14, 2013
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Most Mac and Linux users think anything Windows can do their operating systems can do better. Often, they’re right, but then there comes that day when they really need to run that one special Windows application and then they’re stuck. … Continue reading
July 23, 2013
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Perhaps OpenOffice should adopt a new slogan from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “I’m not dead yet!” While LibreOffice has supplanted it as the default office suite for Linux distributions, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the immediate availability of OpenOffice … Continue reading
July 19, 2013
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Anyone can set up and run a single server instance on a cloud. That’s easy. Few people can set up multiple server instances on a cloud that can efficiently and automatically shift gears to match the rise and fall of … Continue reading
July 2, 2013
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t’s been nice knowing you, Google Reader. Google has pulled your plug, and the most popular really simple syndication (RSS) news reader of all is now dead as a doornail. We’ve known this has been coming for months, but people … Continue reading