Canonical in Touch with Valve to Ensure Steam is Well Supported on Ubuntu

Lots of Steam on Linux news this week after Michael Larabel visited Valve office and confirmed Steam and Source Engine on Linux.

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Install Lenses and Scopes in Ubuntu 12.04 [Wikipedia, Flickr, Grooveshark, Spotify and More]

Most of the Unity Lenses and scopes, that adds extra functionality to dash menu have been updated to work with Ubuntu 12.04. Some lenses like Wikipedia lens are new releases.

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Open Source RTS Game 'Widelands' Updated

Widelands is an open source real-time strategy game inspired by Settlers II.

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'Unknown Horizons' RTS Game Gets First Update of the Year

Unknown Horizons is an open source real-time economy simulation game inspired by classic strategy games Anno and Settlers. 

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John Carmack: Linux Version of QuakeLive Better Than Mac and Rage for Linux Could Happen

John Carmack, founder of id Software have been quite friendly to Linux community and he recently open sourced id Tech 4 Engine.

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4 Configuration Tools for Customizing Ubuntu 12.04

Ubuntu 12.04 has been released today and you may want to customize it. Some of the options like changing icon themes, fonts etc. are not available anymore by default. However, they can be changed using some handy configuration apps.

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Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin'

Ubuntu 12.04 final has been released. Check out our post installation guide for Precise.

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Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' Released, Changes and Screenshot Tour

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin has been released today. This is fourth Long Term Release (LTS) by Canonical and both Desktop and Server versions will be supported for five years.

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Ubuntu 12.10 May Get a New Icon Theme Finally

Mark Shuttleworth recently named Ubuntu 12.10 as Quantal Quetzal and teased some of the plans for next Ubuntu release.

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Valve Working on Steam Client and Source Engine for Linux, Left 4 Dead 2 Already Playable

Michael Larabel over at Phoronix met with Gabe Newell at Valve offices confirming that Steam Linux Client and Source Engine Games are being ported to Linux.

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