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Could Samsung charge for Linux on Galaxy smartphones?

Samsung made tech headlines late last year when it announced plans to bring Linux to its DeX dock (review) and Galaxy flagship phones. The…

Linux is coming to Samsung DeX dock, Galaxy smartphones

In a cool move, Samsung has announced that it’s bringing Linux distributions to its high-end Galaxy smartphones and DeX dock. “Although it’s in trial phase,…

Snappy Ubuntu Core is Canonical’s new Internet of Things platform

Ubuntu has long been Linux‘s star distro, competing against the omnipresent likes of Microsoft and Windows ass-kicker Apple in the laptop and desktop OS…

The Dell ‘Sputnik 3’ is a 13.3″ touchscreen Ubuntu laptop

Dell has recently announced the XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop code-named “Sputnik 3”. In a blog post, the company describes this 13.3″ light-weight touchscreen…

PC gaming’s not dead yet: Valve’s Steam now has 65-million gamers

Steam is celebrating its 10th birthday this year. And what a celebration it is. The company has reached new milestones this year with new…

Linux is the ‘future of gaming’ as Steam Box gets possible announcement date

Valve is planning on revolutionizing the idea of video gaming, again. At LinuxCon 2013 yesterday, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell said that Linux is the…

Humble Bundle 9 brings ‘Fez’ and ‘Faster Than Light’ to Mac and Linux

“Pay what you want. Support charity. Get awesome cross-platform games.” So reads the tagline of The Humble Bundle. The first indie game pack started…

Ubuntu Touch finds its way to Sony’s Xperia Tablet Z

Ubuntu Touch, an upcoming tablet version of this popular Linux distro, has been successfully ported onto the world’s best tablet (in our opinion), Sony’s…

Ubuntu Edge fails to reach funding goal, Mark Shuttleworth still happy

We’d like to say that the ambitious Ubuntu Edge, a dual-booting Android and Ubuntu smartphone, reached its US$32-million crowdfunding goal. And we’d like to…

SOL is a rugged, solar-powered, Ubuntu-running laptop

Gadget makers like to say that their toys offer technologies that are “world firsts”. In the case of SOL, this is undoubtedly the truth. SOL…

Wine 1.6 finally released after 16 month hiatus

We won’t speak for all Linux users, but most use and love Wine – a pretty stable Windows emulator for most Unix-based systems. Today,…

‘Portal’ now available for Steam on Linux

Update: Portal 2 is on the Linux Steam store under “all games” but it’s greyed out, and can’t be purchased. Perhaps it’s scheduled for a later…

Ubuntu 12.10 released: online search, web apps, dash previews part of slick new update

Ubuntu 12.10 or “Quantal Quetzal” recently launched and is now available for download. We’ll avoid any stinging commentary and get right to it: Ubuntu…

The Linux survival guide

With Windows 8 on the horizon many of you are completely confused with the new operating system and will be looking to alternatives. Most…

Linux Ubuntu 12.10 review: finally growing up

A beautiful beginning After reviewing the last version of Ubuntu 12 a few months ago I wasn’t too impressed with the OS in general….

Ubuntu 12.10 — now with Photo Lens for offline and online imaging madness

With the release of Ubuntu 12.04, the world greedily lapped up Lenses for content such as video, music and apps. What didn’t come to…

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