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News: Steam for Linux? I'm excited..

Posted April 25, 2012

It is almost tradition at this stage. A rumor surfaces at some point or another during the year, usually around the same time, that

Steam LogoValve are looking to bring their ubiquitous gaming platform to Linux. Usually these rumors either fizzle out or are flat out denied and a plethora of excuses about poo…

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News: The E-Pebble, gimmick evolved.

Posted April 22, 2012

The latest and greatest thing to come out of Canonical Design Picture of the E-Pebble smart watchis the Linux based, Kickstarter funded, E-Pebble smart watch which recently began taking pre-orders (via their Kickstarter page) after successfully reaching their target funding.

The device sports an E-Ink display with a resolution of…

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News: Ubuntu on Phone, Convergence on roids.

Posted February 22, 2012

Many of you may have seen the recent news that Canonical will be making a Ubuntu desktop available on Duel core (and above)  via HDI out on Android devices.  So what exactly are the benefits of such an amalgamation of smartphone and desktop? 

"Why carry two devices, when you could carry only on…

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News: Novacut, Professional video editing for Linux.

Posted July 4, 2011

Windows and Mac OS X users have always had a plethora of choice when it comes to professional video editing and generally speaking users are happy with the choices available to them (Lets just forget about the Final Cut Pro X situation for a moment). Linux however while having some smaller non-linea…

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