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Valve announces Steam-powered apps beyond games as well as embracing Linux

By tim, on August 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Steam maker Valve has announced that it is expanding beyond games, to sell software titles that “range from creativity to productivity”.

The Steam software is more than just a store. The platform handles updates, digital rights management, and supports multiplayer gaming. It also forms a chat network. The Steam overlay lets users access Steam

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Microsoft deprecates Subsystem for UNIX, recommends open source instead

By tim, on March 14th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I am getting started with the Windows Server 8 beta and noticed this in the list of Features Removed:

The Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) is deprecated. If you use the SUA POSIX subsystem with this release, use Hyper-V to virtualize the server. If you use the tools provided by SUA, switch to Cygwin or

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Top languages on Github: JavaScript reigns, Ruby and Python next

By tim, on January 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I cloned a github repository today, and while browsing the site noticed the language stats:

Git was originally developed for the Linux kernel and is mainly for the open source community. I was interested to see JavaScript, the language of HTML 5, riding so high. PHP, C and C++ are lower than I would

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Trying out nide – a cloud IDE for Node.js

By tim, on January 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I was intrigued by reports of nide, a web-based IDE for Node.js. It was one of the entries in the Node.js Knockout challenge last summer.

So how do you install it? One line on Linux; but I did not want to put it on my web server and I re-purposed my spare Linux machine last

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Users petition Asus over locked bootloader in Asus Transformer Prime

By tim, on January 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

The new Asus Transformer Prime TF201 Android tablet is winning praise for its performance and flexibility. It is driven by NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor and can be equipped with a keyboard and dock that extends battery life and makes the device more like a laptop.

All good; but techie users are upset that the

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Miguel de Icaza talks about Windows 8 and the failure of Linux on the desktop

By tim, on September 26th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

At Microsoft BUILD earlier this month I arrived early to hear Anders Hejlsberg talk about the future of C#, and found myself next to Miguel de Icaza, co-creator of the GNOME desktop and of Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft .NET. I took the opportunity to ask a few questions, which I have his

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Embarcadero promises Delphi everywhere: Mac, iOS this year, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone to follow

By tim, on July 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I noticed the following remark from Embarcadero’s David Intersimone regarding Delphi, its application builder based on Pascal.

We are putting Delphi (and C++Builder) everywhere this year and over the next 5 years. Today you can use Delphi for Desktop, Client/Server, Multi-Tier, Cloud, Web, Web Services (REST and SOAP). This year you will also be able

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Cross-platform concerns as Adobe abandons AIR for Linux

By tim, on June 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is giving up on AIR for Linux – at least, in a fully supported manner:

To support the variety of Linux-based platforms across PCs and devices, we are prioritizing a Linux porting kit for AIR (including source code), which Open Screen Project (OSP) partners can use to complete implementations of AIR for Linux-based platforms

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Intel disappointed with Nokia’s Microsoft move, still backing MeeGo

By tim, on February 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Intel’s Suzy Ramirez has posted about the future of MeeGo Linux following Nokia’s decision to base its smartphone strategy on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Nokia was Intel’s key partner for MeeGo, which was formed by merging Intel’s Moblin with Nokia’s Maemo.

Although Nokia has been an important partner to Intel and MeeGo and we

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MeeGo, Qt, and the new Nokia: developers express their doubts

By tim, on February 11th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

What are the implications of the new partnership between Nokia and Microsoft for MeeGo, the device-oriented Linux project sponsored by Intel and Nokia? What about Qt, the application framework that unifies Symbian and MeeGo development?

Here is what Nokia says:

Under the new strategy, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will place

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