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Desura has been open sourced as Desurium. The code is available under GPL v3. However, all the art and other assets are still owned by Desura. More details should be available soon. Desura Devs have been very friendly and accessible to the community from beginning. Open sourcing the game client is a great step forward and not only it will improve the client but will also attract more developers meaning more games for Linux.

Fully Updated Linux versions of Postal and Postal 2 has been released on Desura. A Postal 2 Linux demo is also available. The updated build will work on all modern Linux distributions.

Looks like everyone is trying to build a smaller and cheaper Linux computer. FXI is bringing Cotton Candy for about $200, production for $25 Linux computer Raspberry Pi has already started and now Rhombus Tech is aiming to deliver a low cost $15 Linux PC - Allwinner A10.

Bitwig is an international music software company based in Berlin. The team includes many veterans who worked on Ableton Live, a popular software for professional music creation. Bitwig has now released Bitwig Studio, a multi-platform professional music-creation system and Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for production, performance and DJing and unlike Ableton Live, it will have a Linux version.

Retro Blazer is a new first person shooter for Linux featuring fast paced gameplay. The game is based on Darkplaces engine and brings back Quake like old school goodness with a difference. Rich cel-shaded graphics, sound effects and colorful environment give the game an altogether new feel and make it more light hearted.

Few months back, FXI revealed its USB stick size mini computer - Cotton Candy. The ARM device created lots of buzz then and the makers said that it can run Ubuntu. They are true to their words and have now ported both Ubuntu 11.04 and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Canonical has revealed a new Ubuntu TV concept as CES. The TV will have easy integration of broadcast, online services and applications and will also support a range of other devices like tablets and phones that can serve as second screen for content viewing. Ubuntu TV will have ability to stream music, photos and videos from the PC to the TV. And with Ubuntu TV apps for iOS, Android and Ubuntu, media can be shared between the TV and portable devices using the personal cloud service, Ubuntu One. Ubuntu TV will run your applications and many other apps from third party developers. These apps will be delivered and updated through an online store.

Canonical design team has revealed some more plans for the upcoming LTS release in a series of blog posts. Along with multi-monitor setup improvements, new changes have been proposed for system and sound settings. These settings will get many improvements this cycle keeping in mind layout consistency with upstream Gnome 3, Unity integration and simplified structure.

Anton Kreuzkamp, a 15 year old KDE developer has come up with a fantastic new way of managing space on virtual desktops. This experimental method, called 'The Workspace Strap' can combine free space of multiple desktops to manage windows more efficiently. Using a Kwin effect, the workspace strap method allows us to organize windows on a linear strap, either horizontally or vertically, that supports stepless scrolling.

Desktop Linux market share had a growth of about 50% last year according to the recent data by NetMarketShare. If we look at the data for year 2010, there was no growth at all. However, in 2011, starting from 0.96% market share in February, desktop Linux market share ended at 1.41%.

Retrode 2 can turn your Linux box into a retro gaming machine. The little black box allows you to play all your good old SNES and Genesis games legally on your PC. Retrode 2 is a USB adapter for classic 16 bit video games. It includes dual cartridge reader ports and supports original game controllers.

Couple of weeks back Microsoft announced that it will participate in Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for one last time in 2012. Interestingly, this will be first ever CES participation for Canonical. Canonical will display latest Desktop and Cloud features as well as have demonstrations on Ubuntu One. Plus an exclusive Ubuntu concept design will be announced during the show.

GIMX stands for Game Input MultipleXer or Game Input MatriX. GIMX allows us to control video game consoles with a Linux PC. It currently only works with the PS3, but the Xbox 360 is a also targeted. The application gets data from the PC peripherals (mice, keyboards and joysticks) and sends controls to the PS3 over bluetooth or usb. Other controls such as gesture or voice are possible through the emulation of PC peripherals. The application supports Linux out of the box.

Gnome 2 has this excellent feature to create custom launcher from simple right click menu option. Unfortunately this ability has been removed from Gnome 3 and there is no easy GUI way to do it in both Unity and Gnome Shell. However, there are two methods that can be used to make custom launchers in Gnome 3.

Much awaited credit card size $25 computer Raspberry Pi is about to go in production early next year. First run beta devices are currently being tested. If all goes well, you will be able to purchase it in January. Raspberry Pi can plug into your TV and a keyboard. It can be used for many of the things your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. The device will come with an ARM processor, a USB hub, an HDMI out, a 3.5mm jack and will support Linux out of the box. Debian, Fedora and ArchLinux will be supported from the start and more distributions will be added later on.

Suicide Linux punishes those users who often misspell terminal commands. Packaged into a simple Deb file, Suicide Linux modifies the terminal configuration such that any incorrect, unknown and misspelled commands inputted will delete all data on the hard drive by executing rm -rf /. So those who love to live on the edge, are super duper confident about their terminal skills and want some thrill can try this on Ubuntu.

Beret, a fun puzzle platformer for Linux has been open sourced. The game was already free for Linux and now you can get your hands on code as well. In the game you play role of a scientist named Beret, who has gained telekinetic abilities through his research at the Evil Corporation. He decides that the Evil Corporation is a tad too evil for his liking, and begins his solitary quest to overthrow the corporation and punish the evil deeds of his employers.

Season 2 for popular Linux platform game No Time to Explain has just been released. The second part takes the crazy fast paced platforming action to new heights and is bigger than ever.

Unity3D has been one of the early adopters of native client technology. The latest Unity3D development tools now includes a simple checkbox using that developers can make their games compatible with Chrome and NaCl. While Unity3D native Linux support is still not encouraging, this news is definitely exciting. In fact, we already have our first Unity3D demo 'AngryBots' working in Linux using NaCl (made with Unity3D 3.5). The demo runs quite nicely with no lag and fps issues.

Aldebaran Robotics have launched a new version of their popular robot Nao - Nao Next Gen. Nao is an autonomous, programmable, medium-sized humanoid robot running a custom Linux OS. It is fitted with a new on-board computer, based on the powerful 1.6GHz Intel® AtomTM processor, which is suitable for multi-tasking calculations. It also has two HD cameras that are attached to a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). This set-up allows the simultaneous reception of two video streams, significantly increasing speed and performance in face-and-object recognition, even under poor-lighting conditions.