Terminology: More Than A Terminal Emulator (Ubuntu Installation Instructions)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI7Peicd2sf2JV2UiE0MPKaZsDxbFxQfVulFMyvJyWT4Uq8A6ysAFat6Ap_iwINT2bDGvuzGmtI8AR4WK6DIiFaox8BXVIOdQ6U_tu6ziBVVN1Bas7Tkqx6JPLScihphtdQzblwZPf9JRP/s320/terminology.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">Terminology</a> is a relatively new terminal emulator written for the Enlightenment desktop, but it can be used in other desktop environments. The application comes with many cool features, some of which do not exist in any other terminal emulator.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides features that are already available in other terminal emulators such as split views support, Terminology can do a lot of things you wouldn't expect from a terminal emulator, like displaying <b>thumbnails</b> for images, videos and documents and furthermore, it also allows you to <b>preview</b> those <b>files</b> directly from Terminology.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That's not all Terminology can do. Other features included in the latest 0.3 release:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>tabs support (although these aren't like the tabs you've seen in other applications - they look like a desktop switcher / expose); the tab switcher has live thumbnail content;</li><li>custom background support and transparency (and each tab or slip can have its own background; supported backgrounds: bitmap, scalable/vector, animated gif, videos);</li><li>text / links drag and drop;</li><li>themes for the layout and design;</li><li>URL, file path and email address detection and link-handling;</li><li>inline display of link content;</li><li>works in X11 and Wayland;</li><li>can be touch controlled;</li><li>scan scale by UI scaling factors;</li><li>can render using OpenGL or OpenGL-ES2;</li><li>block text selection;</li><li>cool visual bell that can be themed;</li><li>comes with a few built-in color schemes, including the popular Solarized light / dark;</li><li>more!</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology-tabs.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaoLotbQlF9LZG03PPwDK-OzYR8iLAbaPmS6W3vY2v5VdNa6XZgNza7oyAGMS2oE1cEGfX1XqIgJPMieU2Si6dT0c_JO8TcuGvv93RI9oeISEOBqILFlY2gQ0-qq__JduuA77MuoYTtocN/s320/terminology-tabs.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terminology "tabs"</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology-preview.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJthNK2BebV9ed0KE40jEN6PrPcUdzIEwGAOV-gVSp_5fq_FFgJcwITSEDbVNC5pjEn337KTUVSJ0FZloYkLptyWFbBn2f0x59FV5BVWS7SXVNz3JBGWCgaWchet24coiooxFPhq1zEof/s320/terminology-preview.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Previewing a video file</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology-preview-tycat.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgJZ8uANrG4y4lhMP4EplDi3aizwLHuHT0NSeiwHlviY1czvotL_E01sfHeMsv3GqCikl0xG_deW8oes5Bt_ZowSEb43QAli3RJ8iFD9Yormr5ebwoaWicWLkyCpu1quJkPhqMDNzt642/s320/terminology-preview-tycat.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"tycat" command allows previewing files</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video recorded by the Terminology developer, demoing the application (unfortunately, the resolution isn't great but it should be enough to get an idea on what Terminology can do):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ibPziLRGvkg" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPziLRGvkg">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Using Terminology</h2><br />Here are a few Terminology usage tips:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To set a background image use "<i>tybg image.jpg</i>" (where "image.jpg" is the image you want to use). The background can be a jpg, png and you can even use animated backgrounds, such as videos for instance. To reset the background, use: tybg ""</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> To get a list of files with thumbnails, use "<i>tyls -m</i>". Please note that in my test under Ubuntu, the thumbnails only showed up for some image files, probably because of some missing dependency. Clicking on the thumbnail opens the Terminology external file previewer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> To preview a file, besides clicking on the thumbnail as stated above, you can also use "<i>find /path/to/some/folder</i>", etc., for example "<i>find ~/Videos</i>", and then click on the file - the full path is required so this won't work for "ls" for instance. You can also use "typop file".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also preview a file in the terminal by using "tycat file".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> To switch between tabs, use Ctrl + PageUp / PageDown. These keyboard shortcuts are hardcoded for now so you can't change them.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Terminology in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Terminology is included by default in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/minimalistic-e17-linux-distribution.html">Bodhi Linux</a> (which is based on Ubuntu) so if you're running Bodhi, it should already be installed.<b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install the latest Terminology in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, you can use the PPA below</b> which provides daily builds for E17, EFL and some apps:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install terminology</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also use the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries <a href="https://launchpad.net/~efl/+archive/trunk">stable PPA</a>, but currently this PPA provides Terminology 0.2 (the latest being 0.3).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Terminology via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/terminology/">AUR</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, get Terminology from <a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">HERE</a>.</b></div>

Terminology: More Than A Terminal Emulator (Ubuntu Installation Instructions)

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Open Source Real Time Strategy Game `0 A.D.` Alpha 13 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-mauryan-buildings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="0 a.d." border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_84T6pydp8arLvGgFmoRWx1vuTrx9yW3AYplrhZ9NkWLk4RPquWN6XyEoQquctwtlxXDCt9ztb5oufg7EAwRAapNLiztz31Irdu87ZPijPbLjMrF24MEetqygUJx_ZP2S78vfSx2WQ4Z/s320/0ad-mauryan-buildings.jpg" title="0 a.d." width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The thirteenth alpha version of <a href="http://play0ad.com/">0 A.D.</a> has been <a href="http://play0ad.com/alpha-13-magadha/">released</a> yesterday, bringing a new civilization: Mauryan Indian, new songs, AI improvements and more</b>. 0 A.D. is an open source, historical real-time strategy game developed by Wildfire Games, that can be played on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><b>Changes in 0 A.D. Alpha 13 "Magadha":</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new Mauryan Indian civilization which includes new units and buildings which reflect the culture's original architectural style;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Aegis bot (the default AI) has been greatly improved in all areas: defending, attacking or building a strong economy;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">attack/move command: when using Ctrl + right click to move units to a location, they will go to that location and stop to attack enemies they meet on the way;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the building preview now always shows the precise final variation that will be built;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">when buildings can't be placed somewhere, helpful messages are displayed now;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">6 new songs have been added;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new and improved animal sounds for lions, tigers and bears;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">user mod support - see the <a href="http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Modding_Guide">modding guide</a> for more info;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new Javascript debugger.</li></ul><br />Below you can watch a video with the new features in 0 A.D. alpha 13:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y-0l7Ej3cM8" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-0l7Ej3cM8">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">0 A.D. uses Pyrogenesis game engine which is mostly written in C++ and uses Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for scripting and it features excellent graphics and sound. The game allows users to control about 11 ancient civilizations, including Gauls, Spartans, Persians, Romans, Carthaginians and so on and one of its biggest downsides is that there's no matchmaking service yet, although it does have multiplayer support (as well as single player), but only peer-to-peer is currently supported.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you can contribute to 0 A.D. (programming, art, sound, documentation and more), see the programmers <a href="http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers">getting started</a> page and join #0ad-dev on QuakeNet on IRC.</b></div><br /><br /><h2>Install 0 A.D. game in Ubuntu</h2><br />Ubuntu users can install the latest 0 A.D. by using its official PPA:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install 0ad</code></pre><br /><br /><b>Download 0 A.D. for other <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/linux/">Linux</a> distributions, <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/win">Windows</a> or <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/mac">Mac OSX</a>.</b>

Open Source Real Time Strategy Game `0 A.D.` Alpha 13 Available For Download

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Audience Media Player Getting Close To A New Release, Help Test It!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gLwkD51i_2y7T6l5cUYY74f1k_WnTE0WPXrHH5lUdtGbA2nMDSkLWibWzRbtJefTwzATbpxPJWb2sjN5YJCNRMgGjFxZC-3mZf1YXuRg9VUidGhNptZp-y10HQeLE3LLcXd5x-6YAUAK/s1600/audience-media-player.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="audience media player" border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gLwkD51i_2y7T6l5cUYY74f1k_WnTE0WPXrHH5lUdtGbA2nMDSkLWibWzRbtJefTwzATbpxPJWb2sjN5YJCNRMgGjFxZC-3mZf1YXuRg9VUidGhNptZp-y10HQeLE3LLcXd5x-6YAUAK/s320/audience-media-player.png" title="audience media player" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://launchpad.net/audience">Audience</a> is a minimalistic, Gstreamer-based media player written in Vala. The second Audience release is getting close and its developers have invited users to help test it</b>. There aren't any major new features since the previous release, but a large amount of bugs have been fixed recently. So if you can help test it or just want to give it a try, read on.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Audience comes with a beautiful, minimalistic clutter-based interface and very few configuration options and is designed to play videos without getting in your way. The progress bar (which comes with previews support) along with a play/pause button, a sidebar (from where you can access the playlist and language / subtitles) toggle button and an add to playlist button are displayed at the bottom and are set to autohide by default. A few more settings can be tweaked by using Dconf editor (<i>org > pantheon > audience</i>). </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIccQjCWovTp5_BaXOyYFMSDk60e8w3ZPfgaNEKoVWW1KkP286hAY2NKzHaspDnIofsm0eqBOQrfchm_E_0AjsC5ITn15j1B-FtstRjgbVjD_TG-ip9IB7sDlhQoMKlOSLSgRuSnd4GZR/s1600/audience_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIccQjCWovTp5_BaXOyYFMSDk60e8w3ZPfgaNEKoVWW1KkP286hAY2NKzHaspDnIofsm0eqBOQrfchm_E_0AjsC5ITn15j1B-FtstRjgbVjD_TG-ip9IB7sDlhQoMKlOSLSgRuSnd4GZR/s320/audience_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can notice from the Dconf path above, Audience is designed for the elementary OS desktop (Pantheon) and it will probably become the default media player in the future. But of course, you can use it in any desktop environment.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Audience</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before proceeding, please note that this PPA has quite a few elementary packages that are unstable so read the PPA description before adding it. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Audience can be installed in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 (and obviously, elementary OS and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, etc.) by using the elementary Daily PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audience</code></pre><b><br />Arch Linux</b> users can install the latest Audience via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/audience-bzr/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And a note from Cody Garver, the main Audience developer, on how to report bugs for Audience: </div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We only ask that users test videos that do not play/produce errors in Totem before submitting a bug to make sure it's Audience-specific.</blockquote><br /><b>Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/audience">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Cody Garver for  the tip!<b> </b></i></div>

Audience Media Player Getting Close To A New Release, Help Test It!

Audience is a minimalistic, Gstreamer-based media player written in Vala. The second Audience release is getting close and its developers h...

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Minimalistic E17 Linux Distribution `Bodhi Linux` 2.3.0 Available For Download

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Bodhi Linux, a minimalistic Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the Enlightenment Desktop (<a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/?p=about/e17">E17</a>) by default, has reached version 2.3.0.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDmokxt6eFdR67lo2kn7JwB-7Rwr1UAnR_BVVG5EW0-sT8f6D_vD3jvnSMb8DqlWgDRg_mOFRs7jX8Q4dn8HiHGd3yFoQoEcTycMHr_gSfSobhWzDeyOwtCZ_CZ2aKYKx7Jgci3s3xhzO/s1600/bodhi-linux-eccess.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Bodhi Linux"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDmokxt6eFdR67lo2kn7JwB-7Rwr1UAnR_BVVG5EW0-sT8f6D_vD3jvnSMb8DqlWgDRg_mOFRs7jX8Q4dn8HiHGd3yFoQoEcTycMHr_gSfSobhWzDeyOwtCZ_CZ2aKYKx7Jgci3s3xhzO/s320/bodhi-linux-eccess.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><b>The Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 release brings:</b><br /><ul><li>Linux Kernel 3.8;</li><li>Enlightenment 0.17.1;</li><li>Midori 0.4.9;</li><li><a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">Terminology</a> 0.3.0 (a really nice terminal emulator for E17);</li><li>eCcess system tool (a tool that lets you change the time and date and manage users / groups) - see screenshot above;</li><li>Ubiquity 2.12;</li><li>Repository updates: Firefox 19.0.2, Chromium 25, Nvidia 210 drivers and LibreOffice 4.0.1;</li><li>5 new themes available by default.</li></ul><br />Here are a few more screenshots:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-nJO_hWWVQzbnLln_iDhHHYNLD_SfSZPq_sH_cogzJ0ytPH_jN3F6K83drgLhz_gBgFE0t6YVK9029iBAvpbxpndZijPSBYmP5Kp_AjEOnTlk93UPR27-nh1DVcgiIv2VDx06C05FvOs/s1600/bodhi-linux_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Bodhi Linux with the default theme, Tiling profile; on the left and bottom right: Terminology; on the top right: the default file manager"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-nJO_hWWVQzbnLln_iDhHHYNLD_SfSZPq_sH_cogzJ0ytPH_jN3F6K83drgLhz_gBgFE0t6YVK9029iBAvpbxpndZijPSBYmP5Kp_AjEOnTlk93UPR27-nh1DVcgiIv2VDx06C05FvOs/s320/bodhi-linux_3.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bodhi Linux with the default theme, Tiling profile; on the left and bottom right: Terminology; on the top right: the default file manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmkksnrJ3PY8dX6z-VH3nUnIwkP_-trBJCt62T9DYTaGCT2LULpcyNhvKQ-dHP07vzXoJHDQQdOAkSesB78BYPWxwG-gS5DH1JZDGktZuvB_Mgpn9KhJ2Wu0EqkOxYL_RTCj29mZXGq4P/s1600/bodhi-linux_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="New Bodhi Forum theme (Desktop profile)"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmkksnrJ3PY8dX6z-VH3nUnIwkP_-trBJCt62T9DYTaGCT2LULpcyNhvKQ-dHP07vzXoJHDQQdOAkSesB78BYPWxwG-gS5DH1JZDGktZuvB_Mgpn9KhJ2Wu0EqkOxYL_RTCj29mZXGq4P/s320/bodhi-linux_2.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Bodhi Forum theme (Desktop profile)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4b-FdNofhL_P8m_Or88psCFyzUj7ocs8Wb4HpZIRMM1hOdPOqWOFvTj2e1mlPBDk_xzqWB0bTLJ8DlPqFiwI3Y60JC6ZpPnH0d9UjgOBn6DMwrjyM2sMlkTlU9jhPWVK8sckxQLzvv4Gp/s1600/bodhi-linux_5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="New Angelic theme (Compositing profile)"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4b-FdNofhL_P8m_Or88psCFyzUj7ocs8Wb4HpZIRMM1hOdPOqWOFvTj2e1mlPBDk_xzqWB0bTLJ8DlPqFiwI3Y60JC6ZpPnH0d9UjgOBn6DMwrjyM2sMlkTlU9jhPWVK8sckxQLzvv4Gp/s320/bodhi-linux_5.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Angelic theme (Compositing profile)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This lightweight Linux distribution uses a "semi-rolling" release model: they follow the Ubuntu LTS release cycle for the core of the distribution but there's also backported software so users can stay up to date with applications such as Firefox, LibreOffice and other packages.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><h2>Download Bodhi Linux</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bodhi Linux is available for 32 bit (both PAE and non-PAE ISO files are available), 64 bit and ARMHF (Samsung Chromebook, MK802, Nexus 7, Raspbery Pi and Genesi Smartbook). <b>Download the latest Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 from its <a href="http://www.bodhilinux.com/">homepage</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2013/03/bodhi-linux-230-released.html">Jeff Hoogland</a></i></div>

Minimalistic E17 Linux Distribution `Bodhi Linux` 2.3.0 Available For Download

Bodhi Linux, a minimalistic Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the Enlightenment Desktop ( E17 ) by default, has reached version 2...

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How to Display Author image in Google Search Results

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>Display your Profile image in Google Search Results</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Verify Google Authorship To show Your Profile image On Google Search Results</b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now a days all the <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/search/label/Blogger" target="_blank">bloggers</a> have an interest to make their profile image in </span><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/submit-your-websites-to-search-engines.html" target="_blank">Google</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/submit-your-websites-to-search-engines.html" target="_blank"> search</a> results. because it will increase the traffic to their blogs and </span>websites<span style="font-family: inherit;">, and build the readers or visitors to search out the blog simply.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtIcWBLjw3L57G-fkh8vjp32MpJIfUaFJargb_PdAzkyunN0Ycp5lSIh-6viaUxDg9KIjXWPCT914X_OYbaAzGWLtFJNkrLtD-hGzmlkIk7DIaAdgGUBtMvkw7ZNR5kzEhO_xuq_WF-A4/s1600/results.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Google Web Search result snippet showing authorship information" border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtIcWBLjw3L57G-fkh8vjp32MpJIfUaFJargb_PdAzkyunN0Ycp5lSIh-6viaUxDg9KIjXWPCT914X_OYbaAzGWLtFJNkrLtD-hGzmlkIk7DIaAdgGUBtMvkw7ZNR5kzEhO_xuq_WF-A4/s640/results.JPG" title="Google Web Search result snippet showing authorship information" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> It is very easy method to make your image appear on Google search results. Follow the steps below:<br /><br />1. Create Google plus profile (if you haven’t already) <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-create-google-plus-fan-page-for.html" target="_blank">Click Here</a> for create Google Plus Page<br /><br />2. First add your Google plus Profile link anyplace on your blog sidebar using the following code:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="Google Plus profile Link" rel="author" target="_blank"> Join me on Google+</a></blockquote>Replace Google Plus profile Link with your profile link  and Change join me on Google+ with your link or images<br />This is how it looks on the blog:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFP6Ooh9owT20Xk8gDx7CKxHL0Hup5TxoHr5c-Wa0C68P3ORtJEGMROoNWJeYC5PWhI4YW7P5Keu4lSOWighgz-yRfvBxDk_j379ccTvm7d-q8oCYuqHk5_gPHZlGn-XJplenITFS1fJ8/s1600/google+plus+in+sidebar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="google plus link in sidebar" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFP6Ooh9owT20Xk8gDx7CKxHL0Hup5TxoHr5c-Wa0C68P3ORtJEGMROoNWJeYC5PWhI4YW7P5Keu4lSOWighgz-yRfvBxDk_j379ccTvm7d-q8oCYuqHk5_gPHZlGn-XJplenITFS1fJ8/s1600/google+plus+in+sidebar.jpg" title="google plus link in sidebar" /></a></div><br /><br />3. Create "About me" or "author page" on your site (if you haven’t already).here is my <b><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">A</a><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">bout page</a></b> that i used, and link the about page to your Google Profile page using the rel=”me” tag. and upload a image into about page.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://profiles.google.com/YOURID" rel="me">My Google+ Profile</a></blockquote><b><br /></b><b>Note:</b> you need to place your Google Id in place of ”YOURID” . to get your id click profile on left menu on your google+ page. now look at the url.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yFAtqVyPEe8HNJpRXMLwNIYibuHvYtiFnxyxf-eJn4jYgsNqEoKYRC0-jErUEkbojN1QoTnTfxPUovh4xbq5NokHwJKrMOX4NcZNH3J86y3JOOcymH0odW2nfeSQyl_cYgv1Q43lNJU/s1600/Google+profile+id+finder.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="profile id" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yFAtqVyPEe8HNJpRXMLwNIYibuHvYtiFnxyxf-eJn4jYgsNqEoKYRC0-jErUEkbojN1QoTnTfxPUovh4xbq5NokHwJKrMOX4NcZNH3J86y3JOOcymH0odW2nfeSQyl_cYgv1Q43lNJU/s1600/Google+profile+id+finder.JPG" title="profile id" /></a></div><br />You’ll also want to place a link back to your bio page in your blog, with a rel tag that says “author”.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/p/about.html" rel="author">About Me</a></blockquote><b>Note:</b> you need to place your about page in place of ”http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/p/about.html”.<br /><br />This is how it looks on the blog:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZz8pMqlIfoQRjN_BemnMSM7cEYXsOjS9IGyA6mGPOx7hQIR1BM8GwZ9SD7tnPFzujRj91zsbfM7VN0Fd_C9VDyRHX0YmMuvSU3gDDYY6BEcaOmmoQ73-j7bi5TTx7BrkFHVrzf3Zd2GE/s1600/about+me+page.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="about link in footer" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZz8pMqlIfoQRjN_BemnMSM7cEYXsOjS9IGyA6mGPOx7hQIR1BM8GwZ9SD7tnPFzujRj91zsbfM7VN0Fd_C9VDyRHX0YmMuvSU3gDDYY6BEcaOmmoQ73-j7bi5TTx7BrkFHVrzf3Zd2GE/s1600/about+me+page.JPG" title="about link in footer" /></a></div><br />4. Now go to your G+ profile and click the About page scroll down here you will see Links click Edit and<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGlCLs64ee-EowVzmbTBXSw6v9fGdxh72MI7nK_J5eHmQVd9n7aIfXq3sGdnw_pSfjXMZURH6ThOP1ECZFbnAf5871BjBmWsORVjWsfkcLKRJNju_ZfXSwuAei2smovbA3ejhi6Ct900/s1600/Add+Links+to+Google+Plus+About+Page.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cross-Links via Google Plus Profile" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGlCLs64ee-EowVzmbTBXSw6v9fGdxh72MI7nK_J5eHmQVd9n7aIfXq3sGdnw_pSfjXMZURH6ThOP1ECZFbnAf5871BjBmWsORVjWsfkcLKRJNju_ZfXSwuAei2smovbA3ejhi6Ct900/s320/Add+Links+to+Google+Plus+About+Page.JPG" title="Cross-Links via Google Plus Profile" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Add your blog homepage url and additionally the url of your about us page. you can also add your Facebook and twitter links if you want.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. Now go to <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool.</a> and submit your homepage link in the search box and hit preview as shown below,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZocE3oc_HL4PC3gDZ833Ajo1DKhAAAm0dCMzCg6FjQEadLtjoQ1592Xc1oBkxxbhFMy29HGmD-MAPoJOw1PXXD__62vLEPuWlP0Jk5d4DUJrP2ab23OeWc8YBVJ8GKcTkNiQ504XIOLk/s1600/rich+snippets+tool.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Google rich snippets tool results" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZocE3oc_HL4PC3gDZ833Ajo1DKhAAAm0dCMzCg6FjQEadLtjoQ1592Xc1oBkxxbhFMy29HGmD-MAPoJOw1PXXD__62vLEPuWlP0Jk5d4DUJrP2ab23OeWc8YBVJ8GKcTkNiQ504XIOLk/s1600/rich+snippets+tool.JPG" title="Google rich snippets tool results" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">You will notice Verified: Authorship markup is verified for this page and that shows you have successfully implemented this feature for your blog.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Note:: It wil take some 48 hours for this options to work, so please wait.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Please use comments box to ask anything if not cleared and share your valuable thoughts.</div></div></div>

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DockBarX Available As An Xfce Panel Plugin

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QjY_dbrE67MW1Yimo8xjeCt0a16S4MTq2xSqGGxHF4_WTRYGPfqc4grjV1GLC13uOFg5PvfVg3Bbex67PCYiDjSy2ZCdt4EcyPcOhTdYn9yJNIyU7vY_iXFQpK6yUNq4EiBq3nHIarJX/s1600/dockbarx-xfce.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="DockBarX Xfce" border="0" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QjY_dbrE67MW1Yimo8xjeCt0a16S4MTq2xSqGGxHF4_WTRYGPfqc4grjV1GLC13uOFg5PvfVg3Bbex67PCYiDjSy2ZCdt4EcyPcOhTdYn9yJNIyU7vY_iXFQpK6yUNq4EiBq3nHIarJX/s320/dockbarx-xfce.png" title="DockBarX Xfce" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/dockbarx-sees-new-release-now-available.html">DockBarX</a>, an application launcher / switcher available for the MATE panel, Avant Window Navigator or as a stand-alone dock, is now available for Xfce, as a panel plugin.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks to TiZ, who has been working on the DockBarX Xfce panel support for some time, the application can now be used as an Xfce panel plugin and with it, users can get an <b>icon-only application switcher / taskbar with</b><b> grouping and group manipulation, pin applications to the panel</b> and, of course, take advantage of the <b>DockBarX plugins</b>: get Unity quicklists, counters and progress bars as well as DockManager integration which can be used to control MPD, Pidgin, Skype, Rhythmbox and so on:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEeOnwnzssFT-32oUUQsptGIsqntqpAOqm3NbgZB5SwaZn6T7glYA9-t3Ki84ouDOvTh8UG11n8cfKwwf3eHOiG6Ltdb6IhCWQQelDzeLSQNyoVpNm9r0Sd4dvBQ4wudle038gYaz8-S_/s1600/dockbarx-xfce-rhythmbox.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="DockBarX Xfce" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEeOnwnzssFT-32oUUQsptGIsqntqpAOqm3NbgZB5SwaZn6T7glYA9-t3Ki84ouDOvTh8UG11n8cfKwwf3eHOiG6Ltdb6IhCWQQelDzeLSQNyoVpNm9r0Sd4dvBQ4wudle038gYaz8-S_/s320/dockbarx-xfce-rhythmbox.png" title="DockBarX Xfce" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFBSPP5c0I3H6w-nxyRomE15YhNubltLxm2RTA5MJVvQf1TQNcMiGYNwRaNBvbTPtrayBCgypF2UpD4YA7nMUxrPkxjslBWaleDpzThStQxzyMpcQuSUd7jR4iMe-M2Zj6YfL3bVa09TC/s1600/dockbarx-xfce-quicklist.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="DockBarX Xfce" border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFBSPP5c0I3H6w-nxyRomE15YhNubltLxm2RTA5MJVvQf1TQNcMiGYNwRaNBvbTPtrayBCgypF2UpD4YA7nMUxrPkxjslBWaleDpzThStQxzyMpcQuSUd7jR4iMe-M2Zj6YfL3bVa09TC/s320/dockbarx-xfce-quicklist.png" title="DockBarX Xfce" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />If you're using MATE or want to use the stand-alone dock, see our previous article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/dockbarx-sees-new-release-now-available.html">DockBarX Sees New Release, Now Available For MATE Desktop Too</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Installing and using the DockBarX Xfce Panel plugin in Xubuntu</h2><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSMoX5kD8ZlgFAPdpcfMQl7UBvstbp_Kdhs1eB7v3lm4hkMKTboBnOOGNjDTkf3rwX8LzNJOBtIit_y5hbQtjqEi08gWssEnlEncpQhbjCfYie6UnHHlFbYLmpdibYL9wLa33_gVY7Meqb/s1600/dockbarx-xfce-full.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="DockBarX Xfce" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSMoX5kD8ZlgFAPdpcfMQl7UBvstbp_Kdhs1eB7v3lm4hkMKTboBnOOGNjDTkf3rwX8LzNJOBtIit_y5hbQtjqEi08gWssEnlEncpQhbjCfYie6UnHHlFbYLmpdibYL9wLa33_gVY7Meqb/s320/dockbarx-xfce-full.png" title="DockBarX Xfce" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Before proceeding, please note that this plugin is in its early development stages so you may find bugs. However, I didn't notice any issues in my 1-2 hours test under Xubuntu 12.10 (and a quick test in VirtualBox in Xubuntu 12.04). <b>The plugin may not work if you're using the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/install-xfce-410-in-xubuntu-1204.html">Xfce 4.10 PPA in Xubuntu 12.04</a> (in that case you may need to build the package from source) - unfortunately, I can't build packages in the PPA for two Xfce versions.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've uploaded the Xfce DockBarX plugin in the official DockBar PPA so to <b>install it in Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04</b>, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dockbar-main/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xfce4-dockbarx-plugin</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For some of the DockBarX plugins you'll also need to install these packages</b> (which are automatically installed, along with some others not used in Xfce if you don't use "--no-install-recommends" in the command above):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install zeitgeist dockmanager dockmanager-daemon libdesktop-agnostic-cfg-gconf libdesktop-agnostic-vfs-gio</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, right click the Xfce panel, select <i>Panel > Add New Items</i> and add DockBarX. Once you add it, you'll get a DockBarX preferences window that's specific to the Xfce version, which lets you set the background color and alpha transparency (so if DockBarX doesn't look like the rest of the Xfce panel, use this to change its color - you can use the color picker to select the current panel color), select a background image or expand the plugin:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXp_2Bbg5PUqAbexwpE8DlD37lQNIKfGSRGgibe7R4VMA6sd2IIh0mEivDdGycO7tCgcpH37tsIpsQcAFoUyx74uiVjw1goGwlZwR1CTPxSwBNAbPDvoDsoS-46RqczOT95HbR-pXxjaFF/s1600/dockbarx-xfce-preferences.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="DockBarX Xfce" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXp_2Bbg5PUqAbexwpE8DlD37lQNIKfGSRGgibe7R4VMA6sd2IIh0mEivDdGycO7tCgcpH37tsIpsQcAFoUyx74uiVjw1goGwlZwR1CTPxSwBNAbPDvoDsoS-46RqczOT95HbR-pXxjaFF/s320/dockbarx-xfce-preferences.png" title="DockBarX Xfce" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once you've made the changes you want here, click "Apply" and DockBarX should show up on the panel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can further customize the DockBarX appearence (change the theme and many other options) from the menu: <i>Accessories > DockBarX Preference</i>. If the "DockBarX Preference" doesn't show up in the menu (it didn't for me), you can log out and log back in or restart the Xfce panel:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>killall xfce4-panel<br />xfce4-panel &</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To move the DockBarX applet on the panel and/or to access its Xfce-specific preferences, right click on the panel and select <i>Panel > Panel Preferences</i>, then on the "Items" tab you can change the plugin placement on the panel or, doubling "DockBarX" you can access its Xfce-specific preferences:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKc43vfk9T6qGVnm0y-niyh7JRa4PWKv_Ots4n64KpLHEHV9eTHlpfnEV9A_OIqlIjEDExB1V_QefINnDLKaqgUKqG6HNwwwkll-2uygPPwd61KDjREla-Ub4dJRUu0jzOYplz3EdJPKm5/s1600/dockbarx-xfce-panel-prefs.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="DockBarX Xfce" border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKc43vfk9T6qGVnm0y-niyh7JRa4PWKv_Ots4n64KpLHEHV9eTHlpfnEV9A_OIqlIjEDExB1V_QefINnDLKaqgUKqG6HNwwwkll-2uygPPwd61KDjREla-Ub4dJRUu0jzOYplz3EdJPKm5/s320/dockbarx-xfce-panel-prefs.png" title="DockBarX Xfce" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: I didn't test it under Ubuntu 13.04 because I can't login to the Xubuntu session, I'm not sure why yet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, get the DockBarX Xfce Plugin source from <a href="http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php?content=157865">HERE</a>. You'll also need <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=101604">DockBarX</a> to be able to use this applet.</b></div>

DockBarX Available As An Xfce Panel Plugin

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Steam March Survey Stats: Linux Usage Has Decreased

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>In <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/steam-february-survey-stats-linux.html">February</a>, the Valve Steam Hardware & Software Survey stats have revealed that 2.02% of Steam users run Linux, a huge increase from January (1.12%). Oddly, the survey stats for March have revealed a decrease and Linux users running Steam are now at ~1.70%.</b></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-OcSilbGjLM9pmlg1djbcQ0-Spdsu8meBzdrkihGO_3fj6aWTAEYViE3-1602BzLOfiNCF_JGsS5xwdMnC2AjhNCZiTBMKClfW99Ywd0SFRID1gSxJ0eripgQ5T8ErWyepp6J5VTSfklj/s1600/steam-survey-march.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="steam survey stats march 2013" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-OcSilbGjLM9pmlg1djbcQ0-Spdsu8meBzdrkihGO_3fj6aWTAEYViE3-1602BzLOfiNCF_JGsS5xwdMnC2AjhNCZiTBMKClfW99Ywd0SFRID1gSxJ0eripgQ5T8ErWyepp6J5VTSfklj/s320/steam-survey-march.png" title="steam survey stats march 2013" width="168" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Steam survey: OS usage stats for March 2013 (the survey is optional)</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">One reason for this could be the game titles that are currently available on Steam for Linux: there are many interesting games, but obviously it can't be compared to Windows yet. Another reason could be the addition of many new Linux distributions: for February, only Ubuntu, Linux Mint and "Linux 64" were displayed in the stats but for March you'll notice a pretty big list of Linux distributions, including Gentoo, Debian, openSUSE, Arch Linux, elementary OS, Fedora, Chakra, Sabayon and so on, of which many show up with 0%.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As expected, in March, Ubuntu continues to have the most Steam for Linux users with 1.15% of all Steam OSes. Linux Mint comes in second, with 0.21%, followed by "Linux 64 bit" with 0.11% ("Linux 64bit" are probably Linux distributions that aren't detected by Steam) and Arch Linux with 0.04%.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Judging by these stats, the Steam Linux market share doesn't seem to be able to go past ~2% but we should see a huge increase once Steambox is released. What do you think?   </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The complete Steam Hardware & Software Survey stats can be found <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey">HERE</a>.</b></div>

Steam March Survey Stats: Linux Usage Has Decreased

In February , the Valve Steam Hardware & Software Survey stats have revealed that 2.02% of Steam users run Linux, a huge increase from J...

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