February 1, 2019
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A few years back, Gabe Newell, Valve‘s CEO, said, “Linux is the future of gaming.” Well, that didn’t happen, but Valve, creator of the Steam game engine and network, is renewing its push for Linux games. So, it makes good sense that ZaReason, a Linux computer … Continue reading
February 15, 2013
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First things first: While you can run the new Linux Steam gaming client on other versions of Linux besides Ubuntu, for now it’s only supported on Ubuntu. If you want to try Steam on other Linux distributions, start at Valve’s … Continue reading
February 15, 2013
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Since the dawn of the Linux penguin there has been one constant user compliant: “Linux won’t run my games!” Those days are now over. Today, February 14th, the Steam gaming client for Ubuntu Linux has arrived. According to the Canonical … Continue reading
October 1, 2012
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While IBM’s Watson expert system isn’t ready to take over the world ala Skynet, it’s certainly “smart” enough to beat the world’s best two Jeopardy players. The company isn’t treating this as a trivial exercise; they’re also hard at work … Continue reading
July 18, 2012
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For years, Valve, creator of the Steam game engine and network and such popular Windows games as Assassin’s Creed and The Elder Scrolls, has hinted that it was bring Steam and its games to Linux. But, then little came of … Continue reading
May 9, 2011
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As June 8, 2011, World IPv6 Day approaches, I’m not surprised to see major ISP and networking vendors getting ready to test out their IPv6 Internet connections. What I didn’t expect was to see Blizzard Entertainment, the publishers of the … Continue reading