As the Wine project gears up for the next major release due in June, work on giving the application a graphical face-lift is drawing to a conclusion. Joel Holdsworth, who has lead the work on the icon refresh, sent us over this screenshot which was produced from a build of Wine’s git snapshop earlier today.

While we wait for the release of some of the major distros' mid year upgrades, I thought I'd present a new Linux flavor which looks and performs very well: Peppermint OS.

Twitter client written in Python. Light, fast, fully functional and integrated to the user desktop

After more than 5 years, author is proud to announce the release candidate for a new "stable" version of the cdrtools package. The next version will be called cdrtools-3.0 and be released in about a week and it contains more than thousand of changes.

DRM concerns notwithstanding, there seemed to be no doubt in many geeks' minds that Steam will bring some much-needed fresh blood to the world of Linux gaming. "It's nice to see Linux finally getting the respect it deserves as a mainstream platform," said Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard

Identity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and can vary from different perspectives. I, for instance, look at my mother and see... my mother. But I know that there's thousands of people out in the world who see her as their teacher, or their child's teacher.

Before Ubuntu became such a hit, many high-profile Linux distributions favored the KDE desktop environment over GNOME. Yet is KDE indeed the more “useable” desktop for the majority of users – particularly new ones?

With Valve's Steam client and Source Engine coming to Linux in the coming months, we decided to check with Epic Games to see how Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux is coming along.