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Download: Minecraft Pi Edition

Play this popular adventure game on the Raspberry Pi

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Download: FocusWriter Portable

Write without distractions wherever you are

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Minecraft comes to the Raspberry Pi

An impressive show of graphics from this tiny computer

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Download: Camstudio Portable

Record what happens on screen as a video file that can be annotated and edited

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Download: Steam for Linux

Serious gaming comes to Ubuntu at last

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Raspberry Pi Model A goes on sale for £20

Fewer components mean lower cost and less power required

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Is there space for an Ubuntu smartphone?

Canonical will need to work hard to compete with the big names

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Top 5 websites of the week

Hot slices of internet featuring coding, Pi, Windows 8 and a trip through the stars

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How Steam on Linux works for me

Unitasking is the way forward

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Download: ProjectLibre

Stay on top of complicated projects whether you are working on your own or with other people

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Download: Ubuntu 12.10

Better online integration in this free operating system

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Correction: Creating a gamepad for Raspberry Pi

Creating a gamepad for Raspberry Pi is great fun, but unfortunately our guide contained an error

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