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Two popular Valve games, Portal and Portal 2, have arrived on Steam for Linux. The two games, released in 2007 and 2011 respectively, have previously been available for the Windows and Mac platforms. This latest Valve game release for Linux is very good news at a time when Steam for Linux usage has been sinking. The April figures for the Steam
The cloud is definitely where it's at right now, but what if you don't like the idea the idea of Google, Dropbox et al looking after your data? Then you might be interested in a Pogoplug, which allows you to create your own cloud storage that's only limited by the size of the hard disk. A Pogoplug is a hardware
For Linux fans, there's a new version of OpenSUSE out today, bringing the version number to 12.2. Albeit a little late, this new version sees some significant upgrades and changes which improve performance and reliability. OpenSUSE is one of the big 5 Linux distributions so it'll be a solid release. In additional to the 3.4 kernel, KDE is bumped to 4.8.4
The long-awaited U.S. release of Raspberry Pi hit snag this month when the folks behind the pint-sized PC (credit card-sized, actually) realized the units were manufactured with non-magnetic jacks. “No magnetics means no network connection,” a blog post stated on the Raspberry Pi site earlier this month. Tech folks have been buzzing about this British non-profit start-up (The Raspberry Pi
When I first decided to put a computer in my home theater cabinet I wasn't sure how much we would really use it. After all, I wasn't ready to give up DirecTV so I wasn't concerned with the DVR functionality because there is no DirecTV tuner available. What I wanted was to have all of our photographs viewable on the
ZDNet is reporting that Canonical is intending to make the next release of Ubuntu, 12.04, a LTS (Long Term Support) release with intention of then expanding Ubuntu beyond desktops and laptops into smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, with a target of 2014 for an all-platform release. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, in an interview said, "This is a natural expansion of
For several years, I've had an original Buffalo LinkStation NAS as my main fileserver. Being on 24x7, it's gone through several fans and at least one hard disk, but it's now time to retire it in favour of a LinkStation Duo which will give me more space, RAID capabilities and faster transfer speeds. Naturally, as my main fileserver, it's backed