Linux is pretty stable, it doesn’t really need to be rebooted twice a day like another operating system that shall remain unnamed. Thats one of the reasons Linux is installed on 19 of the 20 top supercomputers in the world. However, with Kernel updates you will always need to reboot. Who needs that? Enter Ksplice! »
Gaming in Linux has come a long way, last February, we covered World of Goo. World of Goo captured headlines because it’s originally a Nintendo Wii game but the developers have decided to port it to Linux. Anyways, if you liked World of Goo, then you will LOVEÂ Numpty Physics: Harness gravity with your crayon »
So it has been over a month since my last post and me moving to America, and my only connection to the world is a measly Dell mini 12 netbook that Intel somehow severely screwed up when it comes to Linux video drivers. The situation isn’t exactly inspiring me to blog and do all the »
Its been quite sometime since I posted on Royal Linuxing, and deep down I feel really guilty. For a year and a half I have been committed to this blog, it consumed quite a big chunk of my day. The thing is, a lot has been going on in my life. For starters, I resigned »
If you are like me, then you probably get bored of your desktop wallpaper quickly. Then why don’t you rotate them? I know its nothing new really, and there are many ways to do that on your Linux desktop, but like all thing Linux, there is no one clear cut way to do it. There »
La Tour Eiffel is an Android application develeoped by Benoît Lubek. It basically captures a live shot of the Eiffel tower in Paris, France and plasters it as your wallpaper on your Android phone. The updates are done every 30 minutes, and the shots are amazing! Its really fun seeing the Eiffel tower glowing at »
If you care about Linux in anyway, you probably heard that The Linux Foundation has bought Linux.com from Sourceforge. The domain is in the forefront in representing Linux and it’s community, and The Linux Foundation has promised us to bring newer and fresher ideas to a domain that is used to give us Linux related »
Last year, I blogged about 35 Distros and how they got their names. Some of the distros out there have fascinating stories, while others are just too mundane. However make sure you read that blog, its a very interesting one (trust me). The natural extension of the “Etymology of a Distro” blog would be delving »
Speaking to German website Golem.de, the founder of the Ubuntu desktop, Mark Shuttleworth, spoke freely about how Linux compares to Apple, what he thinks of Windows 7, his thoughts of KDE4, and much more. Watch the two part interview after the jump. Video: Mark Shuttleworth – We are our own worst enemy – Interview (Part »
I consider myself a gamer. Luckily I am a console one, name the console and I probably have owned it. So I never really had to jump through hoops and Wine to run Windows games. Bar perhaps Championship Manager, but even that I quit since I discovered its such a time sucker. Despite that, the »
