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Today, Valve has announced the first part of it's plan to bring Steam to the living room.

This part takes the form of a free Linux-based operating called SteamOS. No exact release date is available, but they say it will be ready to download "soon".

Quote from their web site:

As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

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More here: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

Well, we at GamersOnLinux certainly hope it will help:

"Dear old Linux, what are we to do with you? Developed for just over two decades and it's still barely made a mark on the consumer consciousness..."

Full story here:
http://www.techradar.com/news/compu...rning-point-for-linux-on-the-desktop--1151854

I just realized that I miss defraging my hard drive!

Particularly de-fraging with "Norton Utilities"!

Do windows users still need to defrag their hard drives? Do they still pay (As I did) Norton to defrag for them?

It just became clear to me that this is the only thing I miss about windows.

The one reason I have to envy windows users.

How hard would it be to create a Linux application the "pretends" to defrag my hard drive?

I would like it to defrag at three different speeds and have a variable setting showing various states of fragmentation.

The first state would show a drive with little need of defraging... at the start,... but when I say to myself "what the hell lets make this drive perfect and get those last half dozen or so bits where they belong"...it would take three days to re-order everything and would be incredibly indecisive and slow doing it... This would no doubt be my favorite setting.

Then we could have one setting that shows a...

Conquer the New world: In the 16th Century, Spanish explorers and soldiers reached the shores of America. The search for gold, fame, and adventure drove these travelers into a treacherous wilderness where they faced hunger, disease, and dangerous predators. In their wake, the Aztec Empires lay in ruins.

Now on Steam for PC, MAC and Linux.

Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/237430/

Another classic in the inimitable style of Linus:

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/...orvalds-promises-profanity-over-linux-310-rc5

Running With Rifles is a cell-shaded action game where you and your friends can battle in towns, trenches, and forests.

Running With Rifles
Linux Demo

Features:

• Windows and Linux supported
• 24/7 servers in Europe and USA supporting 30+ players
• 5x 1 km^2 maps with total of 45 bases
• 1x PvP (no AI) map with 7 bases (coming back soon)
• hundreds of simultaneous AI soldiers
• open world: it’s up to you how you play, the war goes on without you
• not your usual “I’m the hero”-shooter: one bullet kills more often than not
• use cover, crouch and prone, move with others to increase your odds to stay alive
• emergent AI that tries hard: they too use cover and rooftops, attempt outflanking
• gain experience to get promotions to lead your own squad, unlock abilities
• a variety of weapons, and thus, roles...

From The Register, January 24, 2013

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/24 ... velopment/

From Computerworld

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... steps_down