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News of DC's Convergence has spread like wildfire throughout the internet and I will begrudgingly admit to being interested in some of what is happening.

Here are links from the usual sites to discuss.

http://www.comicvine.com/articles/dc-announces-10-convergence-titles-featuring-steph/1100-150368/

http://comicsalliance.com/dc-comics-announces-its-2015-event-convergence-but-what-does-it-mean-for-the-dcu/

http://www.newsarama.com/22683-dc-s-convergence-week-one-donna-troy-oracle-married-superman-montoya-question-more.html
 
For someone like me who simply hasn't fully embraced the New 52 universe, who miss the original Wally, and Donna Troy, and the Steph Brown Batgirl, and the Supergirl of Sterling Gates and James Peaty, this Convergence stunt is a little balm.

It's not that I like all the universes they are bringing back (Flashpoint? Really?). But seeing the Silver Age Charlton heroes, old school JSA, a true Marvel Family, and Freedom Fighters is great.

And now they have announced some of the titles happening over those 2 months. Here are the ones that grabbed me.


JUSTICE LEAGUE
Writer: Frank Tieri
Artist: Vicente Cifuentes
When Supergirl, Zatanna, and Jade went to Jessie Quick's baby shower, they didn't expect to be taken to another planet for a year, or to be attacked by Flashpoint Aquaman.

This is a riff on James Robinson's Justice League. This was the 'legacy' League with Dick Graysonas Batman, Superman, Jade, Donna Troy, and Jessie Quick. (It also had Congorilla and Starman.) So I will happily revisit this group. I miss all those characters.

Too bad we couldn't get Stering Gates or Robinson (currently at Marvel) to handle these issues. I guess one of these blondes is Kara and the other is Jessie.


I think I liked that run more than many. Kara was the muscle and her relationship with Batman was great. And Donna was just fierce.


SUPERMAN
Writer: Dan Jurgens
Artist Lee Weeks and Dan Jurgens/Norm Rapmund
Superman and Lois deal with the impending birth of their child as he is called in to protect the city.

Don't like Superman being with Diana? Wish he was still married to Lois? Wish Dan Jurgens was still on the super-books? Like Lee Weeks' art on the recent Sand Superman crossover in Futures End?

Well this book is for you! And for me! Huzzah!


BATGIRL
Writer: Alisa Kwitney
Artist: Rick Leonardi and Mark Pennington
After a year in the dome, Stephanie Brown is not sure she wants to be Batgirl again. But when Flashpoint Catman attacks, Red Robin and Black Bat call her back into service.

I miss the Steph Brown Batgirl book so much. So I am happy to see that she is coming back albeit briefly. And Black Bat and Red Robin are there as well! Too fantastic.

Nothing against Alisa Kwitney but how can you do a Steph Brown Batgirl book and not have Bryan Q. Miller write it??

So despite snubbing my nose at the idea when it first was announced, DC has sprinkled enough old glory out there to make me interested.

Insane.

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 OpenSource.com: The open source license you choose for your project, or for the projects you choose to contribute to, can have significant effects on how what you contribute is used.

This week RootGamer interviewed Mathieu Comandon, an open-source fanatic, software engineer and core developer of ‘Lutris‘. Lutris is an open gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It aims at supporting as many games as possible thanks to emulators and providing a simple and reliable experience when installing games.

 What is the motivation for you to develop ‘Lutris‘?

Mathieu:  Linux games have always been a bit troublesome to install and configure. Much more than Windows for example. I saw the need for a tool that would ease things up. I started Lutris when I abandoned the idea of contributing to PlayOnLinux. It’s a great project but wasn’t comfortable with the code base mixing bash and Python and I wanted a tool that would allow many more games than PoL does: Native games, Windows games, Playstation, Super Nintendo, Gamecube, arcade, Atari 2600 … If it can run on Linux, it should be supported by Lutris.

  Do you develop Lutris all alone?

Mathieu:  The team is really small sadly. I’m the only core developer and there’s one regular contributor who helps testing things, improving the UI, giving feedback and all sort of useful things. Also, I was very pleased with the Arch Linux community: when I asked them to delete an obsolete package from their AUR repos, I got 2 new packages (stable and git) almost instantly. Since then a couple Arch users are staying on the IRC channel (#lutris on Freenode). These contributions are already awesome, but I’d really appreciate some help on the development, it feels a bit lonely right now

  What features are you currently working on?

Mathieu:   I’m currently working on better integration with Steam. Things like switching from Steam Linux to Steam Wine, syncing your Steam library into Lutris and installing game data from Steam for games (such as Unreal Tournament, the Quake series, …) that are native but aren’t available on Steam Linux and providing usable installers. These features are almost ready and should be released soon. After that, I’ll be working on setting up Personal Game Archives where you can keep all the files required to install a game on a storage device you have under control, which would allow you to reinstall games on all of your machines. It’s like what Steam does but it doesn’t rely on any 3rd party service, not even lutris.net. This feature should also handle game saves.

  Where do you see room for improvement??

Mathieu:  In the future, I’d like to have better controller support (there’s already xboxdrv support but it’s very experimental and doesn’t have a GUI). More game runners (emulators and any program that run games) support. Integration with the TOSEC database (ideally, lutris could provide support for every single game in the TOSEC database and there’s thousands of them). I also plan putting some social features such as adding a friends list (with chat) and the ability to organize multiplayer gaming events

  What is your ultimate goal with Lutris?

Mathieu:  The ultimate goal is to provide support for every game ever released, as long as it can run on Linux. This often requires to patch some emulators that haven’t been updated in years. Lutris isn’t just about the GTK client and the website, it’s also about the game runners and maintaining them in a healthy state.

  How may the community contribute the Lutris project?

Mathieu:  Like I said before, the contributions are made from a quite small number of people. However, that’s understandable because Lutris hasn’t yet reached the maturity of a tool such as PlayOnLinux. With the rise of gaming on Linux coming from Steam, the new features and more stability, I hope to see more and more people contributing. Most parts of Lutris are not very complicated and it’s written in Python, I think it’s quite easy to contribute to this project. It’s also possible to contribute by writing installers for games. The syntax is quite straight forward and uses the YAML formatting. Everything needed in order to write installers should be available on the website (on the new installer form) but if it’s not clear please notify me or use existing installers as an example. I plan adding a web UI to help creating installers, making this even easier.

Download Lutris

The game management tool ‘Lutris‘  is exclusive to Linux

Tools:  Lutris

 

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• http://lutris.net
• http://rootgamer.com/tools/lutris

 

 

 

New AWN GitHub repositories:

• https://github.com/p12tic/awn
• https://github.com/p12tic/awn-extras
• https://github.com/p12tic/libdesktop-agnostic

Install Avant Window Navigator in Ubuntu 13.10

To add the AWN testing PPA and install Avant Window Navigator in Ubuntu 13.10, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator

Viber for Linux features:

• HD quality voice calls;
• video calls (desktop to desktop only);
• text, photo and sticker messages;
• group conversations;
• full sync between the mobile and Linux clients;
• transfer ongoing calls between devices;
• no registration or password required.

To run Viber on Linux, extract the downloaded zip archive in your home folder, then run the following command to start Viber:

~/Viber/Viber.sh

For feedback, see the Viber Linux Beta testers G+ community.

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I haven’t put up a post in awhile so here’s what’s new: I still am using my old Gateway machine with Crunchbang, although since Waldorf is the current stable version of Crunchbang, I’m using mostly Debian Testing (Jessie), which is eventually going to become the new Crunchbang 12 codenamed Janice. Crunchbang uses Muppet names for […]

As Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's immortal superhero hits 75 years, CBR speaks to the man who once killed him as Dan Jurgens reflects on what makes Superman endure and what makes a great Superman story.

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Since its public availability, Ubuntu Touch's look and feel have been described by a vast majority of users as beautiful, polished, innovative and modern.

The at-that-moment's mockups are currently undergoing a serious development phase rooted into a complete creation process, starting with designs generated by experienced Ubuntu designers (constantly iterating new and new incarnations) and progressively entering into the real-code arena.

The Ubuntu designer Michal Izydorczyk continues the captivating series of inquiries into the designs for Ubuntu Touch's core applications, thus adding an interesting article about new designs of Clock, Weather and Calendar.

Under the Suru design style, the "early stage" concepts show a definitely fancy, classy, neat pack of applications, taking Ubuntu Touch to a more refined, vibrant and elegant look.

Good-looking buttons, gradients, light elements, carved-like round areas please the eye and add to the touch-based Ubuntu extra visual enrichment.

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One last reminder, and I think it'll be too late! We've only got about 50 tickets left for sale for BAH! Looks like it's going to be a packed house, so if you want in, we sincerely encourage you to buy online. We may have some tickets at the door, but I can't promise anything!

And, since I botched that link yesterday... Did I mention Michael's books are free for the next few days?