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Remember Psychonauts? Once regaled in glowing reviews and positive reception from press outlets, the now classic Psychonauts has made its way, unexpectedly, to Linux. The game, designed by influential point-and-click pioneer Tim Schaffer...

I’ve had various stints with KDE, which have all been very pleasant. In fact, I write about it all the time; but I’ve always been a Gnome man. Of course Gnome has gone it’s own way towards over-simplification and Ubuntu has shown its defiance with Unity.

In KDE, there are quite a few apps out there to manage your personal photo library with. The prominent ones that come to mind are DigiKam and Qwenview. While both of these applications are fantastic and highly regarded, they miss one huge mark...

Fedora 17 now officially sets it’s memory requirement for installation to 512MB. Before Fedora 17, the requirements and been a similarly unrealistic 768MB. A standard desktop installation with Gnome 3 in tow will not be able to perform realistically for any user. Of course Fedora is good for a great many configurations, including different desktop environments and server configurations, but allowing the average user to complete an installation in the standard desktop configuration at such a low bar, seems like a strange move.

Yesterday, developer and blogger ShaneQFul posted about a new project that he’s been working on. One that fills an enormous void in the KDE space, and moreover, the Kubuntu space. No Ubuntu One integration for Dolphin, KDE’s default file manager. Shane answers this void with a new plugin.

While budgetary constraints and increasing commercial competition has clearly taken its toll on NASA, one area where the iconic government institution has unquestionably made headway is the implementation of open source.

You are habitually late meeting your deadlines at work. Your boss asks for April’s TPS report and demands that it be completed and in his inbox by Friday, 05/04/12. Friday has come and gone, though luckily your boss was out of town that day. You know that he is still...

Fresh from UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit), attendee Electronic Arts have decided to finally dip it’s toes into uncharted waters. Now available in the Ubuntu Software Center are 2 title from the monolithic publisher. Ubuntu users can now get their hands on Lord Of Ultima and Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances.

Get a sneak-peek at the new Vivaldi Content Store for the Vivaldi tablet!

A test with user agent switcher reveals some very shady behavior from Google.

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ownCloud, the open source file storage and syncing service, has recently released the first version of their Android application. While it isn’t in the Google Play Store yet, users who want to get an early look at the new application can install a test build from the ownCloud blog.

This upgrade is directly inspired from an article by Joey Sneddon over at OMG! Ubuntu. Joey upgrades a 10.04 installation to 12.04 and gets some really great results. The jump from Lucid to Precise is a significant one, so seeing his success, minus the loss of his wallpaper, is great news for those of us that are able to stick with this Jurassic release.

If you follow the Humble Bundle series of game packages, or if you’re one of the unlucky individuals to get your mitts on its latest incarnation, you might be privy to a bit of controversy regarding the package. The controversy, simply put, involves the fact that all of the games in the package require defunct, unsupported Adobe products to function

One of the oldest and best sources for news regarding Linux powered devices, LinuxDevices, is worryingly silent today. Attempts to reach both the main page and the forums return database errors. This comes a few months after its publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, was acquired by QuinStreet.

Welcome to our first ever movie review at +The Powerbase. I can’t predict the future, but I can say that we probably won’t be doing many more of them. Today is a special case however, as the guys over at Humble Bundle, producers of many fine cross-platform gaming bundles, gave away a special gift to those who spent more than the average purchase price.

The latest Humble Botanicula Bundle is out, and for Linux users, it’s an extreme disappointment. As with all Humble Bundles, the same sales trends apply. Linux users are still paying the highest average dollar amount which is over $2 more...

Phys.org is reporting on a recently published paper that suggests all scientific journals should require the full disclosure of source code as a condition of publication. The paper states that only 3 science journals currently require source code.

Last month we had the chance to review Yubico’s YubiKey, a low cost, high accessibility authentication token that is aiming to change the way individuals connect with their online services. We came away very impressed, and...

The last few days have seen a depressing flurry of forum topics and blog posts about the supposed death of Slackware, evidenced (primarily) by the fact that Slackware.com has been down quite a bit recently (indeed, it is down at the time of this writing)...