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Miaou Moon - Linux Game Impressions

 By Andrew Powell Previews

Miaou Moon is an unusual platformer styled game. On the one hand, it's an almost hypnotic and patient adventure through space as you let yourself bounce around through low gravity while conserving energy. On the other hand, you'll suddenly find yourself using cleverly timed thrusts to avoid a…

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The new Linux Rain is Here... well, sort of, almost

 By Andrew Powell Announcements

You might have noticed that The Linux Rain has taken on a whole new look. If you had of tried the beta version of The Linux Rain the new look would look very familiar. So, are we now running a whole new shiny CMS (content management system)? Well, not quite. Not yet anyway. Here's why. It's a whole…

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The 'New' Linux Rain Beta Is Now Live!

 By Andrew Powell Announcements

The "Beta" version of the upcoming new site for The Linux Rain is now live and ready for your perusal and testing. While it is a beta and by no means entirely complete or set in stone, it is more than usable and already reached feature parity with the current site. It is live and…

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A New Redesigned Website Coming Soon For The Linux Rain (Beta)

 By Andrew Powell Announcements

That's right folks, there's some changes afoot here at The Linux Rain. A CMS migration and redesign of the site is in the works right now and a beta version will be available shortly! The change comes on the back of me feeling that a change in CMS (Content Management System) was needed in order to…

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How to Install Foxit PDF Reader on Manjaro 21 Linux

Foxit PDF Reader is a multilingual freemium tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. Learn to install Foxit on Manjaro 21 Linux here.

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How to Install Graylog 4 on Ubuntu 22.04

Graylog is a free and open-source log monitoring tool. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Graylog on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

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How to Install Steam on a Chromebook

If you install Steam on your Chromebook, you can play many Windows games. Learn how to install Steam on a Chromebook here.

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Red Hat Advances Enterprise Linux with Improved Podman Containers

Linux vendor Red Hat announced this week the beta release of the latest update for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform with the 8.7 and 9.1 milestones. Both RHEL 8.7 and 9.1 add new features and capabilities designed to help organizations more effectively use Podman containers.

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How to Install Audacity on Fedora 36 Linux

Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application. Learn how to install Audacity on Fedora 36 Linux here.

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Excellent Utilities: CopyQ – advanced clipboard manager

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager that is written in C++ and published under an open-source license. Learn more about CopyQ here.

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Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) Beta Released with GNOME 43

Featuring the latest GNOME 43 desktop environment, Ubuntu 22.10 beta comes with PipeWire as the default sound system. Learn more here.

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Security-Oriented Distro Parrot 5.1 Arrives with Linux Kernel 5.18

Parrot 5.1 is here six months after Parrot 5.0 and is powered by Linux kernel 5.18. Learn more about the new release here.

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Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” to Arrive on Christmas

Linux Mint 21.1 has been codenamed “Vera” and is the first point release to Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa”. Learn about the upcoming December release here.

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How to Install FreeOffice on Linux Mint 21

FreeOffice is a free and open-source office suite with a word processor and other features. Learn how to install FreeOffice on Linux Mint 21.

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Point and click mystery adventure The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is out now

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The free Indonesia update for art of rally is out now

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Manage games and people in Roller Drama with full Linux / Steam Deck support

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Valve give update on official Steam Deck Dock, Valve excited for SteamOS on more devices

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Steam drops the Lunar New Year Sale, we're getting a big Spring sale instead

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Steam Deck got another Beta update focused on Steam Input and FlickStick

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Intel Arc A770 GPU releases October 12th

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Intel reveals 13th Gen 'Raptor Lake' desktop CPUs

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Steam Deck gets a small bug-fix Client Beta out now

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Trombone Champ is my new favourite rhythm game

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Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 26 'Zhuangzi' is out now

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