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Submission + - Dell Launches Alienware X51 Ubuntu Gaming Desktop (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Friday April 05, 2013 @03:56PM

dartttt writes: Dell has launched a new Ubuntu gaming desktop (first ever?) . Alienware customers can now choose either Windows or Ubuntu when buying a new X51. Ubuntu option is initially available to US customers only and the price starts from $599.

Submission + - Valve: Linux has everything they need (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Monday October 29, 2012 @10:33AM

dartttt writes: In a presentation at Ubuntu Developer Summit currently going on in Denmark, Drew Bliss from Valve said that Linux is more viable than Windows 8 for gaming. Windows 8 ships with its own app store and it is not an open platform anymore and Linux has everything they need: good OpenGL, pulseaudio, OpenAL and input support.

Submission + - John Carmack, Kudos to Valve but Linux is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Saturday August 04, 2012 @12:08PM

dartttt writes: John Carmack recently presented a keynote at QuakeCon. He said that Linux is still not a viable gaming platform and the two forays they have made have not been successful commercially. Valve announcing Steam Linux support changes things a bit but its a tough sell on.

Submission + - Linux Played a Vital Role in Discovery of Higgs boson (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05, 2012 @11:02AM

An anonymous reader writes: Scientific Linux and Ubuntu had a vital role in the discovery of the new boson at CERN. Linux systems are used every day in their analysis, together with hosts of open software, such as ROOT. Linux plays a major role in the running of their networks of computers (in the grid etc.) and it is used for the intensive work in their calculations.

Submission + - Linux Users Banned from Diablo III Servers (ubuntuvibes.com) 1

Submitted by dartttt on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @05:38AM

dartttt writes: Blizzard has banned all Linux users who are playing Diablo III on Linux using Wine. A number of Linux users suddenly got a message from Blizzard that they can no longer use their account to play Diablo III any more.

Submission + - Unity 3D Game Engine Adds Linux Support (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:05PM

dartttt writes: After more than 14,000 votes by Linux users and efforts by Brian Fargo, Unity 3D has added Linux support to their popular game engine. Starting with Unity 4.0, Linux will be supported as a publishing platform allowing Unity games to be played natively on Linux. Only standalone desktop games will be supported initially. There is no word on Linux support for game editor and web player.

Submission + - Google Talks About Ubuntu Experience (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Saturday May 12, 2012 @12:50PM

dartttt writes: There was a very interesting session at UDS by Google developer Thomas Bushnell. He talked about how Ubuntu, its derivatives and Goobuntu (Google's customized Ubuntu based distro) are used by Google developers. He starts by saying 'Precise Rocks' and that many Google employees use Ubuntu including managers, software engineers, translators, people who wrote original Unix, people who have no clue about Unix etc. Many developers working on Chrome and Android use Ubuntu.

Ubuntu systems at Google are upgraded every LTS release. The entire process of upgrading can take as much as 4 months and it is also quite expensive as one reboot or a small change can cost them as much as 1 million dollars.

Submission + - Open Source Driver For Microsoft Surface 2.0 (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Friday May 11, 2012 @07:13AM

dartttt writes: Florian Echtler has developed an open-source driver for the Microsoft Surface 2.0 touch screen. According to him, the open source implementation works surprisingly well on Ubuntu 11.10. The process requires you to boot Linux on your Surface 2.0 in the first place. However, it can be done by just booting Ubuntu from a USB hard disk without modify anything on the original Win7 installation.

Submission + - Controlling Gnome 3 with Skeltrack (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @04:25AM

dartttt writes: Skeltrack is a Free and Open Source Software library by Igalia for tracking the human skeleton joints from depth images.

It is implemented with GLib and uses plain mathematics to detectthe human skeleton and although it does not use any database, it was inspired by Andreas Baak's paper:A Data-Driven Approach for Real-Time Full Body Pose Reconstructionfrom a Depth Camera

Skeltrack devs have recorded very cool videos showing Gnome Shell and Linux games being controlled through gestures.

Submission + - Linux on an 8 Bit micro (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Monday April 02, 2012 @08:53AM

dartttt writes: Dmitry Grinberg has successfully booted Ubuntu 9.04 on an 8 bit micro machine with 6.5 KHz CPU and 16 MB RAM.

Grinberg did this experiment on a ATmega1284p, 8-bit RISC microcontroller clocked at 24MHz and equipped with 16KB of SRAM and 128KB of flash storage. Since the RAM was too low, he added 30-pin 16MB SIMM to the machine and a 1 GB SD card to host Ubuntu image.

Minimum system requirements for running Linux are considered to be a 32bit system with proper Modern Memory Management Unit (MMU) and 1 MB RAM. The experiment was done to prove that Linux can successfully run on an 8 bit micro.

To get the world's slowest Linux Computer running, he had to write an ARMv5 emulator which supports 32bit processor and MMU. A similar machine can be made very easily and everything should come in about $20. He has also provided full source code and a porting guide.

Submission + - Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Saturday March 31, 2012 @09:41AM

dartttt writes: Adobe has released Flash Player version 11.2 with many new features. This is last and final Flash Player release for Linux platform and now onward there will be only security and bug fix updates. Last month Adobe announced that it is withdrawing Flash Player support for Linux platform. All the future newer Flash releases will be bundled with Google Chrome using its Pepper API and for everything else, 11.2 will be the last release.

Submission + - KDE 4.8 Released (kde.org)

Submitted by

jrepin

on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @12:10PM

jrepin writes: " KDE community have released version 4.8 of their free and open source software bundle. The new version provides many new features, improved stability and increased performance.

Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, the redesign of power management, and integration with Activities. The first Qt Quick-based Plasma widgets have entered the default installation of Plasma Desktop, with more to follow in future releases.

KDE applications released today include Dolphin file manager with its new display engine, new Kate text editor features and improvements, Gwenview image viewer with functional and visual improvements. KDE Telepathy reaches first beta milestone. New features for Marble virtual globe keep arriving, among these are: Elevation Profile, satellite tracking and Krunner integration.

KDE Platform provides the foundation for KDE software. KDE software is more stable than ever before. In addition to stability improvements and bugfixes, Platform 4.8 provides better tools for building fluid and touch-friendly user interfaces, integrates with other systems' password saving mechanisms and lays the base for more powerful interaction with other people using the new KDE Telepathy framework."

Submission + - Zynga accused of cloning hit indie iPhone game Tin (gamasutra.com) 1

Submitted by FrankPoole on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @11:14AM

FrankPoole writes: Indie iPhone game developer Nimblebit is accusing social games giant Zynga of ripping off its popular mobile title Tiny Tower. Nimblebit's Ian Marsh got word out about the similarities between Dream Heights and Tiny Tower with an image that's still making the Twitter rounds. The image is made up of screenshots showing how Dream Heights' interface and gameplay mechanics appear strikingly similar to Tiny Tower's.

Submission + - Over time, Linux package dependencies show predato (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @10:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have performed an ecological analysis of software packages in the Debian Linux distribution over time; they found that dependencies can be successfully modeled as a predator-prey relationship.

Submission + - The Many Names of Linux Kernels (ubuntuvibes.com)

Submitted by dartttt on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @09:50AM

dartttt writes: Not many people know that Kernel releases have their codenames. Most of the Linux 2.6 and 3.x kernels include a name in the Makefile of their source trees, which can be found in the git repository. They are not publicized as such but some of them are really hilarious. How does 'Pink Farting Weasel' sounds?

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