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Akamai: Gamers Aren’t P2P Bandwidth Slaves

TorrentFreak  Wed, 09/15/2010 - 06:02

Two weeks ago we published an article calling for more transparency from gaming companies that use P2P technology to let their users distribute content.

In the days after we published the article, one of the major players in P2P game distribution responded to our concerns.


 

Keep your Linux system up to date with KPackageKit

Linux Today  Wed, 11/18/2009 - 01:34

Ghacks: "PackageKit is a background service charged with updating and installing software on your computer. But because PackageKit itself is just a background service it requires a front end so that end users can take advantage of the system.

One very powerful front end is KPackageKit."