February 2013 - Utappia

How to install CUDA 5.0 Toolkit in Ubuntu

February 14, 2013 by Salich

This guide is based upon Ubuntu LTS 12.04, but same principles apply in 12.10 as well. Let’s start 1. Make sure you have a CUDA supported GPU You must have a nVIDIA GPU that supports CUDA, otherwise you can’t program in CUDA code. Here’s a list with the CUDA supported GPU models. 2. Install NVIDIA … Read more

New GPU Benchmarks: Unigine Valley 1.0 & Heaven 4.0

February 12, 2013 by Salich

Unigine is going to release two new GPU Benchmarks sometime during next week. Namely: Unigine Valley and Heaven 4.0. Both of them will be compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OSX operating systems, 32bit and 64bit respectively. In our case, we would like to see the power of OpenGL 4.x support. New features: SSDO (scene-space dimensional occlusion), … Read more

John Carmack: Linux is not the right platform for video games

February 12, 2013 by Salich

Carmack believes it makes more sense to create a special emulator for Linux rather than to port video games to Linux, which is used by just 1.21 percent of PC users, he stated on reddit. Here’s what he said: I wish Linux well, but the reality is that it barely makes it into my top … Read more

Github: Step by step management of Github with Git Cola GUI

February 7, 2013 by Salich

Github and Git Cola GUI combination make VCS easy to manage, fun and productive. As stated in a previous post, Github doesn’t have an official UI app for Linux.

Half-Life and Counter-Strike are available for Linux

February 7, 2013 by Salich

I still remember myself trying to play Counter-Strike under Linux using WINE or Cedega. A couple years later, today, somebody told me that Valve releases both titles through Linux Steam client — beta no more. All you have to do is go to Steam, search for Counter-Strike and Half-Life, purchase them, download next, and frag ‘n kill. … Read more

Manage Github with Git Gui on Linux

February 3, 2013 by Salich

Github is maybe the most widely used VCS hosting service that has a client for Mac and Windows but not for Linux. Git Gui is the easiest way to work with Github and so maybe it should become the default client for it.