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Valve Releases New Portal for Linux Update

24th of May 2013 10:32 GMT

Portal, an innovative single-player game developed and published by Valve, has been launched officially on Linux and already received a few patches. Portal was first released back in 2007, along with Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Valve still needs to update this old title, especially now, after being made availab...

Kanotix LinuxTag 2013 Has Linux Kernel 3.9.0 and Steam

24th of May 2013 10:13 GMT

Kanotix, a rock-solid Linux distro based on Debian, which contains the newest packages and recognizes more modern hardware than any other operating system in use today, has just received a special edition called LinuxTag 2013. The developer of Kanotix developed a special edition of this distribution that has the Ste...

The Ultimate Hacking Tools Included in BackBox Linux 3.05

24th of May 2013 09:23 GMT

BackBox, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments, is now at version 3.05. BackBox 3.05 is meant to be fast, easy to use, and to provide a minimal desktop environment. It benefits from its personal repositories and its hacking tools are always...

Siduction 2013.1 Linux Distro Is Seductive

24th of May 2013 08:59 GMT

Siduction 2013.1, a Linux distribution that ships with four desktop environments, KDE, XFCE LXDE, GNOME and Razor-Qt, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, has been announced. Siduction 2013.1 has been dubbed Firestarter and is based on Debian's unstable branch. The developer’s goal is to try and rele...

Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) 3.0 Is Based on Debian 7.0

24th of May 2013 07:59 GMT

Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment), an easy-to-use open-source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines, is now at version 3.0. Proxmox VE 3.0 includes countless improvements and a lot of exciting new features, like live snapshots for KVM guests. Highlights of Proxmox VE 3.0: &bull...