Unity 3.7 Snapshot Preview Out

Gettinther announced that build 3.7…a developer environment snapshot intended as proof of concept…has been released.  This is an unofficial release…It’s stable…but we consider it not even an alpha quality release…mainly … Continue Reading →

The New Planet Unity

Some of you may have noticed that Planet Unity got a face lift recently. I took a page from Linux Mint and their planet page and grabbed Gregarius which is … Continue Reading →

Is Usability Really Simplicity?

What usability reasons do you have for using Gnome vs. KDE? I’m looking for usability issues here and not specific bugs that cause you to drop one on its head. Bugs can be fixed. I’m talking about hard features that lack from one environment to the other. What makes you use it in Ubuntu versus KDE? Remember, not bugs…features! Continue Reading →

Call to the Linux Community

Demasiado Personal writes “There’s a game studio made by only two people, that released an excellent game for Windows, called World of Goo. I recently saw that the piracy on … Continue Reading →

CodeWeavers Offers Free CrossOver – 1 Day Only

3 months ago, CodeWeavers CEO Jeremy White issued a “Lame Duck” challenge for the President.  If any of those goals were met, he’d offer CrossOver free for one day.  Fast … Continue Reading →

Some Random Linux Observations

Ubuntu is the only Linux distro I know of that has its alpha releases slashdotted and dugg…which is a real shame; I think there are more that deserve this treatment … Continue Reading →