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Nvidia devs hope to improve out-of-the-box performance in the wake of SteamOS announcement.

Linux Games, an online classifieds website that advertises jobs for aspiring Linux game developers, has published an advertisment from Crytek’s German offices, inviting game programmers with a proficiency in Linux to port over the Crytek engine.

Valve’s portal-hopping puzzler comes to Linux gamers

id Software’s venerable code magician John Carmack has taken to Reddit to discuss the prospects of Linux support for mainstream games. Carmack said “I don’t think that a good business case can be made for officially supporting Linux for mainstream games today.”

Ubuntu 12.10, known as Quantal Questzal, will be releasing on 18 October 2012, but what can we expect from the forthcoming version?

Valve confirm zombie-killing action is on its way to Ubuntu

The latest Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin, goes head-to-head with the previous Long-Term Support version of the Linux-based operating system

Unity 5.0, Ubuntu’s new desktop interface has been released for testing

Picking the top ten Linux distributions is a tricky business. Here’s our choice.

Never shy with his ambitions, Mark Shuttleworth still has his sights set on world domination.

Don’t know your DEB from your RPM? We offer a short guide to Linux for the Windows user.

In the constant battle for performance and lower power consumption some OS makers are preparing for ARM-based server clusters

Ubuntu’s next release will add a host of new features to further improve its new interface. It’s still a couple of months to go to the next release of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system but many of the changes that users can look forward to are now becoming apparent. The most exciting of these are the changes planned for Ubuntu’s new user interface and includes features such as Scopes and Lenses.

As Android’s popularity grows its competitors look for ways to slow it down.

Microsoft’s next big offering could be released as a beta in September 2011. How the mighty have fallen. There was a time when anything that Microsoft did would result in pages and pages of news coverage. Today, only Google, Twitter and Facebook can do that, and Microsoft scrambles for media airtime along with everyone else.

MyGaming takes a look at some of the great games out there for Linux and Ubuntu gamers

If you've been in the IT industry for a couple of decades you might well remember when thin-client technology was big news. In particular you might remember when Oracle chief Larry Ellison sang the praises of thin-client technology. You might also remember when, in the late 1990s, Ellison again proclaimed the virtues of thin-client computing.

Right now I am at a loss as what to think of Unity, Ubuntu's new desktop interface. Like many long-time Ubuntu fans I was eagerly awaiting Ubuntu Natty, the latest release of Ubuntu. Most of all I wanted to try out Unity, the new interface that Mark Shuttleworth has been promoting as the next big step forward for Ubuntu Linux. I'd tried various versions of Unity during its development but was mostly disappointed, a fact I put down to it being early testing software. When Natty was released Unity would so much better, I rationalised.

Years after work first began, the new Gnome3 desktop is finally here. It's a day that many open source fans have been looking forward to for years. On Wednesday, 6 April 2011, Gnome3 - the latest version of the popular open source desktop environment - made its official debut.

With thousands of Android apps to choose from everyone has their favourite. These are some out our picks