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Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,...

Gmail is a great webmail service, with features rivaling standalone clients. But since it runs in a browser, if you're not on the site, you won't be notified of new mail. Spiffy (free) fills this gap. It runs in the system tray and periodically checks up to five Gmail accounts, displaying alert boxes for new messages.

CEDET brings project management, code completion, reference analysis, code generation and more to the Emacs editor...

Wine runs many Windows programs nicely these days, including more and more serious music applications. Dave profiles some of those applications running under the latest & greatest Wine 1.2.

The 2.6.36-rc3 kernel prepatch is out. "Nothing in particular stands out that I can recall. As usual, it's mostly driver updates (65%), of which a large piece (by line count) is just the removal of a staging driver that isn't really ready nor making any progress. But on the 'somewhat...

Phoronix reports that Indian vendor Knowledge Quest Infotech is working on a native ZFS port to Linux...

With all the many reasons to use Linux today--particularly in a business setting--it's often a relatively easy decision to give Windows the boot. What can be more difficult, however, is deciding which of the hundreds of Linux distributions out there is best for you and your business.

MPEG LA, the group who who licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever. But Mozilla thinks that the better part of forever could belong to Google's WebM format.