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The First Unreal Engine 3 Game Ships for Linux

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:23:45 +0000

Guest Post From Davis Miller Score! a HUGE victory for Linux gaming in 2013! Ryan Gordon confirmed via Twitter that “Dungeon Defenders is an Unreal Engine 3 game on Linux, and it’s the first thing I’ve shipped with SDL 2.0!” The launch of Humble Indie Bundle 7 is a tower defense and action oriented role [...]

Buy Vs. Build Vs. Cloud

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:31:37 +0000

When a company needs a piece of software there is lots of open source software available that may suit their needs. But what happens when there isn’t? Lets take a look employee performance evaluation software (like this) for example. To build a full featured business supporting application like this is no easy task. Lets weigh [...]

The top 3 widely used open source accounting applications

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:30:40 +0000

This is a guest post from Brianne There many excellent options for open source accounting software which cover basically anything from ledger bookkeeping to report and forecasting. However, you must know that having an accounting software does not turn you into an accountant and you still need a basic grounding of the fundamentals of accounting [...]

10 Amazing Productivity Tools You Can’t Live Without

TheLinuxBlog.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:30:47 +0000

This is a guest post from Ella. As a small business owner, the Internet has changed the way I collaborate and work with my colleagues, contractors and clients. The business world is becoming more global all the time, and collaboration and communication are more important than ever. Check out these slick little tools (some familiar, [...]

AutoSSH

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:15:13 +0000

I’ve written in the past about automatically performing an action when a host comes back online. However, this post is geared towards a more permanent solution than the one time usage connection. Introducing autossh: Description-en: Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, restarting [...]

Top 10 Android Applications for 2012

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:00:21 +0000

Here is another post from Brianne on her top 10 Android application picks for 2012. Being an Android user myself these aren’t my top 10. Mine, without descriptions are: ConnectBot, androidVNC, Sipdroid, AndSMB, ColorNote, PocketCloud, FreeMP3Droid, ViewRangerGPS, VirtualRecorder and TeslaLED. Feel free to list your top 10 or suggestions in the comments! So without further [...]

No Password SSH Login

TheLinuxBlog.com — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:28:34 +0000

I SSH a lot. In the past I’ve pretty much always typed passwords to log on, but when trying to SSH in using my phone, with a good password it’s a pain to say the least. I had SSH Keys setup with password-less login before but usually ended up losing the thumb drive the key [...]

Better System Information with inxi

TheLinuxBlog.com — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:23:31 +0000

Getting system information can be a tricky task, having to gather bits a bobs of information from various places. A Friend recently sent me a link to a little script called inxi. It comes pre-installed with SolusOS, Crunchbang, Epidemic, Mint, AntiX and Arch Linux but as it is a bash script it works on a [...]

LINUTOP 2 Review

TheLinuxBlog.com — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:08:27 +0000

Linutop is a company based out of Paris that specializes in small form factor energy efficient embedded type PC’s. They have a variety of devices with no moving parts and utilize open source software based on Ubuntu for the platform. They were kind enough to send me a Linutop 2 to review. We’ll start off [...]

Play Windows Games on Linux

TheLinuxBlog.com — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 01:00:10 +0000

Tonight we have a guest post from Jason Phillips about games on Linux. Linux is a popular OS especially for servers. It is great of open interfacing, and can be extremely efficient on processing and time. It does not have a lot of the add-ons that Windows has that can bog down the system and [...]