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Rumour – Metro Last Light To Arrive On Steam For Linux Soon
Steam for Linux has been out for a while now but it hasn’t really brought any top-tier games as of yet. Apart from Valve games and some indie developers most developers haven’t been interested in offering Linux support or giving people the relevant tools to develop that open source support.…
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Windows 8 Growing In Popularity With Gamers Shows Steam Hardware Survey
The Steam Hardware Survey always gives a good indication of what PC gamers are doing in terms of hardware and software trends. The monthly survey reveals details on all the hardware and software inside Steam users’ PCs. So if you’re interested in seeing if Steam gamers prefer Nvidia or AMD,…
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Windows 8 Experiences Slowest Rate Of Growth In July
Windows 8 experienced a bit of a boost last month with the release of the Windows 8.1 preview but now that all the excitement has died down a bit the latest current OS from Microsoft has returned to slow growth. In fact it recorded just 0.32% of growth during last…
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Ubuntu Edge Passes 20% Crowd-Funding Milestone
Ubuntu’s new “Edge” smartphone got off to a flying start generating nearly $3.2 million in under a day of its Indiegogo campaign. Canonical’s new smartphone has now passed 22% of its funding target. Currently $7 million of the $32 million total has been generated in a few days. In those…
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Ubuntu Edge Phone Raises $3.2m Funding In Less Than A Day
Building a smartphone and taking it to market is no easy task, although it does get a lot less complicated when you raise a huge pile of money to help you and Canonical has done just that, raising 10% of the total money it required to bring their new device…
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Windows Plummets In Global Computing Market, Android Takes Over
While we know Windows based operating systems dominates the “desktop market” with around 91% of market share, the world of computing is much more than that. It includes tablets, smartphones, consoles, servers and so on. With the dramatic decline of PC shipments over the past years and rapid growth of other mobile…
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Windows Runs On 91% Of World’s Desktop Computers
Despite all the bad press Microsoft has had this year, and the bashing that Windows 8 has faced (rightly or wrongly so), Microsoft still dominates the desktop PC market and this shows absolutely no sign of slowing. According to the latest figures by Market Research firm Net Applications Microsoft still…
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Systena Unveil Tizen-Linux Powered Full HD Tablet
The Tizen operating system is essentially a WebKit runtime running on top of the open source Linux Kernel and it was developed with some key players like Intel, Samsung and the Linux Foundation. The Source Developer Kit (SDK) of Tizen 2.0, the latest incarnation, is entirely licensed to Samsung so…
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Compulab Reveal MintBox 2
Compulab have revealed their second incarnation of the MintBox according to FanlessTech. The MintBox 2 will run Linux Mint out of the box and comes equipped with passively cooled Intel Core i5 processors. The previous generation ran AMD E-Series Zacate APUs so this is a dramatic improvement on the CPU…
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Sony PlayStation 4 OS Is Modified FreeBSD 9
It looks like Sony has gone for the a super customised edition of Free DSB 9.0 to run the heart and mind of their new PlayStation 4 games console, an interesting choice for many reasons and it couldn’t be much more different that the system opted for by Microsoft. The…
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NSA Has Code Running In the Linux Kernel And Android
The saying “how deep does the rabbit hole go” has never been more appropriate with regards to NSA speculation as everyday people seem to pull up something new. With the USA’s National Security Agency, or NSA, in the spotlight recently over the whole PRISM saga, it seems to have made…
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Indie God Sim “Reus” Is Out Now, Already A Steam Bestseller
Developer Abbey have successfully launched strategy god game Reus and it is available as a digital downloadable title on most popular platforms such as Gog.com and Steam. Reus is Abbey’s first ever release, but within hours it had already climbed to be the top 2 seller on Steam, out pacing…
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International Space Station Starts Using Linux, Not Windows
Good bye Windows XP and hello Linux says the International Space Station as the United Space Alliance, who manage the computers on the ISS state that “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.” There are dozens of laptops used…
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Portal For Linux Is Now Available Through Steam
It is one of the most popular Valve games in their selection and now Valve have announced that Portal has made its way to the Steam Linux platform. Portal (1) was released back in 2007 alongside the likes of Team Fortress 2 and Half Life 2 and it is arguably…
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Left 4 Dead 2 Finally Arrives On Steam For Linux Next Week
The possibility of Left 4 Dead 2 arriving on the Linux platform has been around for well over a year now. Around 9 months ago Valve told us they could get Left 4 Dead 2 to run faster on Linux than Windows. However, the process of porting to Linux has…
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