Okay, Linux Gamers Are REALLY Excited!, Jul 23, 2009

It seems as if Linux gamers are indeed really excited for having new games on Linux, well, "really excited" may still be an understatement.

The Linux client for Unreal Tournament 3 should have been out over 550 days ago, but it appears to be dead with not even Epic Games being sure about its status. However, the independent developer that is responsible for porting this game's server and client over to Linux, Ryan Gordon, claims that the game is still on.

We are comparing the performance of the Linux and Sun OpenSolaris kernels.

Tux, the Linux penguin mascot, will be taking a break during the Linux 2.6.29 kernel cycle. The new temporary logo is known as Tuz, a Tasmanian Devil, which is a species in danger of becoming extinct. The Tasmanian Devil is native to Australia and during this year's Linux.Conf.Au conference it was decided that Tuz will stand in for Tux for one kernel release in order to raise awareness for this creature. Tux will return with the release of the Linux 2.6.30 kernel.

As of late, file-systems have been a popular topic among Linux developers and users. The EXT4 file-system was recently stabilized and it brings some modest performance improvements and is finding its way into modern distributions. While not yet stabilized, the Btrfs file-system was merged into the Linux 2.6.29 kernel and is poised as the Linux competitor to Sun's famed ZFS file-system. There is also open-source work underway in supporting Microsoft's exFAT file-system on Linux. On top of all of that, there is also the Tux3 file-system.

Being worked on as part of Mandriva's next Linux distribution update is a technology they are referring to as Speedboot.

If you were hoping to use a Creative X-Fi series sound card under Linux in the near future, think again.

With all the work and reform going into Fedora 7 it poses the question, will Fedora 7 be Linux's knight in shining armor?