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Steam for Linux Beta Now Available Finally, the golden age of Linux gaming (or is it?) has kickstarted.

Hi to all the FOSS friends, I am thinking of creating a new linux distro mainly focussing on the user friendliness. Almost all the linux distros are more complicated to understand and work with. If it is easy there will be not any questions posted in this section.. Post your valuable...

Hi, I'm looking to buy a new PC. I've my eyes on AMD FX 8350. Earlier I was looking at i5 3550, but this thing seems more powerful at 4 Ghz with 8 cores. My main use would be Linux and some gaming on Windows. Don't ask me which games I'm going to play because I have been out of touch of...

In order to use internet banking of Bank of India you have to download & install their software called StarToken. (An executable StarToken.exe) I just want to know if there is any way to get it to run on Ubuntu linux. I tried "Run with Wine" but I just get the circular (wait) mouse curser...

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1) What is your budget? (INR or USD) ----> 35000 INR max (would prefer a laptop within 20k-30k though) 2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer? Netbook; 11" - 10” screen or less Thin and Light; 12" - 14" screen Mainstream; 15" - 16" screen Desktop Replacement; 17"+...

According to the latest update on the Steam Linux blog : I think they ought to make their own distro as well.

The following tutorial helps you to boot linux ISOs without using pendrive/dvd/cd. This tutorial can be followed using both EFI/BIOS setup.(Another tutorial specifically for EFI setup.) Note:If anyone has easier method,please post. Prerequisites 1.A fat32(preferable) partition(big enough to...

Hello everyone ! I am referring shell scripting. So I came across various strengths of scripting. I was just thinking whether following idea is possible: suppose I am having a text file containing 10 lines. Now I want to create file1 with line1 of it. Then file2 having line2 of text file and...

Hello friends, I have a Red Hat Enterprises Server installed in my office and Office's interanet site is installed on this Server and all the systems is the office are Linux based. So that all systems have the access to that website but. when I connect my Windows based laptop to that network I...

Need Review On "Lenovo G580 (59-324061)". *www.flipkart.com/lenovo-essential-g580-59-324061-laptop-3rd-gen-ci5-4gb-500gb-dos/p/itmdcjhugdtpfzrr?pid=COMDAYTZUZWSVDPQ&ref=ffaabb98-2d83-40bc-b32b-0008bb01b579 I'll use it for my Oracle DBA & Networking (Linux, Server-Domain) courses. **I've...

I tried installing ubuntu 11.10, linux mint 12 but installation gets stuck at same point. I am using logitech wireless keyboard and mouse could that be the problem? plz help

There are two laptop configurations: ->laptop coming with window7 and ->laptop coming with dos. 1)What is difference between these? I am planning to purchase laptop and decided to go for Dell Inspiration 15R series. 2)I may need to uninstall windows later for...

hi all i wanted to learn more about linux and its terminologies, so i was thinking if any body can suggest me some good ebooks on linux which can explain A-Z of linux, like wise repositories, PPAs, DEBs etc. it will be a great help if you suggest some ebooks.

hey hi all, i want to boot linux from my pendrive in my coll comp, when i make the bootable pendrive from unetbootin.exe and boot it on coll comp it gives me bootmanager missing error, where as when i run the same pendrive on my PC it runs pretty well! what could be the problem, i have tried...

My envy 15 had windows 7 64 bit home premium already installed on it. It had already 4 primary partitions, system, recovery, boot and hp tools. I deleted the hp tools partition and shrinked the size of the system partition and installed back track 5 on the new primary partition but by mistake i...

Hello to all. I am staying in Bangkok and do not have facility to download free software. Does anybody know where I can purchase any Linux Distro,s in Bangkok. I want to try out a Distro on my laptop without installing it. Have been to many Kiosks that sell cd..dvd but all windows and...

I have windows 7 and linux mint 12 installed on my laptop.I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 and remove linux mint 12.How to do it?I have partition wizard 5 installed. Laptop:Dell XPS L501X

This is a little older news: Source I can't help but agree, I think the new Windows will spell doom for next gen gaming. Note to mods : If you think fit, please merge this thread to the Linux on Steam thread.

hey frns nowadays we are studying shell programming thats y i need to install a linux distro on my dv6 6165tx ,,i tried ubuntu for 2 weeks ,,but i ran too hot ,i tried every possible solution available on web to switch gpu but ,,anything didnt work for me ,,so please tell me is there any linux...