Language Selection

English French German Italian Portuguese Spanish

Linux

Steam Machines: The Specs, Prices, and Release Dates

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 9th of March 2015 12:04:50 AM Filed under
GNU
Linux
Gaming

Following Valve's Steam Machine reveal in 2013, the PC games giant retreated for a year and, at GDC this week, returned to the stage with a robust and detailed line-up of 15 systems.

This collection of a dozen living-room PCs--each now with their finalised specs, prices and release dates--together encapsulate Valve's vision for Steam Machines: Scalable, modifiable, attractive units that aren't the typical desktop setup.

Read more

Also: Steam launches massive Linux game sale to celebrate Steam Machine unveiling

»

Jolla’s Sailfish OS Spotted Running on the OnePlus One

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 7th of March 2015 04:32:45 AM Filed under
Linux

OnePlus One is a handset running CyanogenMod 11S, which was most readily adopted by developers around the globe.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that the handset was spotted running Jolla’s own Sailfish OS.

The photograph showing that the porting was achieved has been shared by Jolla’s own Martin Brook on Twitter.

Read more

»

The Year of the Linux Smart Phone

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 7th of March 2015 03:32:49 AM Filed under
Linux

When most people think of Linux on mobile devices their thoughts tend to go right to the current market giant: Google's Android Operating System. While it is true that Android is powered by a Linux kernel at its core, the software stack on top of that Linux kernel is vastly different than other Linux operating systems.

Read more

»

Compulab Utilite2 Ubuntu mini PC now available for $192 and up

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 6th of March 2015 11:41:03 PM Filed under
Linux
Ubuntu

CompuLab’s Utilite2 is a tiny computer with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor and support for Ubuntu Linux or Google Android software.

The company unveiled the 3.4″ x 2.3″ x 1.1″ computer in December, and now it’s available for purchase.

Read more

»

Valve develops its own Intel graphics driver for Linux

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 6th of March 2015 11:32:53 PM Filed under
GNU
Linux
Gaming

Valve has developed its own Intel Vulkan GPU graphics driver for Linux that they intend to open-source.
The Vulkan API is still being argued about and will not be finalised until later this year, but Valve has been developing their own Intel GPU reference driver for Vulkan to help early adopters boot-strap their code.

Read more

»

Tiny IoT SBC runs Linux, offers Arduino compatibility

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 6th of March 2015 11:18:13 PM Filed under
Linux

The credit card sized, open-spec Udoo Neo SBC features Freescale’s Cortex-M4-enhanced i.MX6 SoloX, plus Arduino compatibility, WiFi, Bluetooth, and sensors.

Read more

»

Vivaldi Technical Preview 2 Released, Install In Linux To Give A Try

Submitted by Mohd Sohail on Friday 6th of March 2015 06:03:55 PM Filed under
Linux
News
Reviews


Vivaldi Technical Preview 2 Released, Install In Linux To Give A Try

Vivaldi is a new web browser built by an Opera founder. The browser that is specially built for developers but everyone can use it. The browsers is rapidly being developed and its second technical preview has been released. Install in Linux to give it a try. You will like it.
 

Read At LinuxAndUbuntu

»

Share Mouse And Keyboard With Your Windows & Linux Machines With Synergy 1.7.1

Submitted by Mohd Sohail on Friday 6th of March 2015 09:53:36 AM Filed under
Linux
Ubuntu
HowTos


Share Mouse And Keyboard With Your Windows & Linux Machines With Synergy 1.7.1

We often need to use two computers at one time and switching mouse & keyboard again & again is very annoying. So what to do? Yeah! We can use one mouse & keyboard with two machines at the same time. So let's get started!
 

Read At LinuxAndUbuntu

»

PlayOnLinux Reached to 4.2.6, Install Windows Apps And Games In Ubuntu Linux

Submitted by Mohd Sohail on Friday 6th of March 2015 09:49:39 AM Filed under
Linux
Gaming
HowTos


playonlinux 4.2.6 released, install windows games on ubuntu linux

PlayOnLinux is a software designed to installWindows applications and games on Linux. The team released PlayOnLinux 4.2.6 recently with several improvements and bug fixes that makes it more stable and useful. Let's install it on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu derivatives.
 

Read at LinuxAndUbuntu

»

Help: Linux to the rescue of older operating systems

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 6th of March 2015 07:26:34 AM Filed under
GNU
Linux

As you know, when someone offers free stuff, we give it a few weeks in order to give each group, organization or individual in need a chance to respond. That’s what we’ll do with Mary Greenfield’s generous offer to donate free fabric, so give it another week and then we’ll forward responses to her.

One of the most rewarding aspects of writing this column is realizing that it generates discussion, and here’s a response to that question about updates for an older computer running Windows ME...

Read more

»
Syndicate content

More in Tux Machines

today's leftovers

Software: VirtualBox, Franz, ClipGrab, Gammu, AppArmor, Xfce4, GTK+

  • Oracle Releases VM VirtualBox 5.2
    It was more than one year ago that VirtualBox 5.1 was released while today it's finally been succeeded by a new feature release.
  • Franz Combines all Your Messaging Apps in a Single Application
    Franz is a free to use application that combines different messaging services like WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Gmail, Telegram, Skype, Slack and other chat applications in one application.
  • ClipGrab: Video Downloader and Converter Updated for Ubuntu/Linux Mint (PPA)
    ClipGrab is a free software to download and convert videos from different famous sites of Internet. You can easily save your favorite videos from sites like Dailymotion or Vimeo. And you can convert these videos into "usable" formats like WMV, MPEG or MP3. You can check here which sites are supported by this software.
  • Gammu 1.38.5
    Today, Gammu 1.38.5 has been released. After long period of bugfix only releases, this comes with several new noteworthy features.
  • Watch Out Upgrading To Linux 4.14 If You Use AppArmor
    Just a quick public service announcement if you rely upon AppArmor for security on your Linux distribution like Ubuntu/Debian and plan to soon upgrade to the Linux 4.14 kernel...
  • New hotness: xfce4-notifyd 0.4.0
    After quite some development time I have decided to push out xfce4-notifyd 0.4.0 today. This is not just a bugfix, but a feature-packed release.
  • Xfce Gets Notification Improvements With xfce4-notifyd 0.4
    For users of the Xfce4 desktop environment, a new release of xfce4-notifyd 0.4 is now available as the project's newest feature release.
  • GTK+ 3.92 Released With Many Improvements & New Features
    Matthias Clasen has today released GTK+ 3.92 as the latest test release in the long road towards the major GTK4 tool-kit update. GTK+ 3.92 features Vulkan improvements, more widget reworking, continued Emoji support, and more. Highlights of changes found in this GTK+ 3.92 update include:
  • SteelCloud Expands Linux STIG Support to Ubuntu, SUSE, and Oracle Linux
    SteelCloud LLC announced today that it has enhanced ConfigOS, its patented STIG remediation software, to support the newly released Ubuntu, SUSE, and Oracle Linux STIGs. These new supported platforms bolster the product's existing Red Hat Linux automated STIG remediation capabilities. The expanded ConfigOS Linux security content will be provided to new and existing customers at no additional charge.

today's howtos

Linux and Graphics: AMD and AGL

More on Tux Machines: About ● Gallery ● Forum ● Blogs ● Search ● News ● RSS Feed

Part of Bytes Media ● Sister sites below.

TechBytes Techrights button

Powered by Drupal, an open source content management system

Content available under CC-BY-SA CC

© by original authors

Powered by CentOS 6.5 (GNU/Linux), Varnish, and Drupal 6