The Steam on Linux rumor is up and running again.

A couple of weeks ago, Valve has officially made it clear that they are not developing a Steam client for Linux. This came as a big surprise for a lot of people who had been expecting it, after all there were reports of the Mac client containing Linux codes.

Well, whatever those codes are doing there, Valve has made it pretty clear that they are not working on a Linux port of Steam at that moment. I see no reason to question what Valve has said. They have never lied straight at our faces as far as I can remember.

Google Chrome in the stable and beta channel has been updated to version 6 today. It is already available for Linux, Windows and Mac. If you are using either the stable or beta channel, a simple update should get you Google Chrome 6.

We have tested the JavaScript performance of different web-browsers on a number of occasions. A common feature in all those tests was how slow Firefox’s TraceMonkey JavaScript engine was. It always come somewhere at the bottom of all the tests. Even Konqueror with WebKit managed to outperform it.

It is a well known fact that you can install updates in Linux without rebooting, unlike in Windows. However, when it comes to Kernel Updates, you are required to re-boot your Linux systems too! Well, as they say there is a solution of every problem on this Planet, so is Uptrack for Linux! Ksplice Uptrack is a really cool technology which allows you to update the Linux Kernel without rebooting your computer.

Ksplice Uptrack is available for various Linux distributions, but at a small monthly fee after a 30 day trial period.However, Ksplice recently announced that Uptrack would be available for free on Fedora! Uptrack is already free for Ubuntu Linux. In this article we will tell you how to Download, Update and Configure Uptrack on Ubuntu and Fedora systems.

Twitter has killed the basic authentication system used in a lot of Twitter clients yesterday. Earlier we wrote about how you can get the latest Choqok to continue using Twitter. It seems like the current version of Gwibber in the PPA does not support OAuth either.

Ksplice is now offering their tool Ksplice Uptrack for free for Fedora. Ksplice Uptrack is a really cool technology which allows you to update the Linux Kernel without rebooting.

With this announcement from Ksplice, Fedora joins Ubuntu as the second Linux distribution in which Ksplice Uptrack is available for free. In future Fedora releases, Ksplice may be integrated into the distribution itself.

Microsoft is gradually jumping on the Social bandwagon by leveraging the power of Facebook. After launching Docs.com, Microsoft has launched a new social crossword game called – Team Crossword. Although this application is not as big as Docs.com – the Facebook-powered Microsoft Office service, but  it is just a simple but fun social game. We have already told you about Google’s plans To Launch Social Games in association with Zynga (of Farmville fame).

Canadian Indie Rock Band, Arcade Fire, has released what can only be described as the probably the most revolutionary music video ever.

As part of the Chrome Experiment, they have released an interactive music video for their song “We Used To Wait”. By using some amazing HTML5 stuffs and data from Google Maps, it creates an amazing music video.

In Ubuntu, your windows partitions have to be configured to mount automatically. Although there is the long, boring command line way of automatically mounting your Windows partitions by editing a file called fstab, we have already told you about a nifty GUI based tool called PySDM using which you can easily configure your Windows partitions to mount automatically.

Today Twitter is ending support for the basic authentication in favour of OAuth. So, if you are a Choqok user, you have to upgrade to Choqok 1.0 Beta 2 in order to continue using Twitter. In an earlier post we gave the link to the source. But not everybody can build from source and even when you can, when it is already available in a PPA, why bother?

In an update to a blog post, the Diaspora team have clarified that the 15th September release date they revealed earlier was only the release date for the source code. The consumer facing alpha will be released in October.

Empathy, the default IM client in GNOME, is getting a brand new feature – meta-contacts.

If you have used more than one one IM service, you would have no doubt seen that the same person is listed as many times as the number of services he is using. For example, if, say Bob uses both Gtalk and MSN, Bob is listed twice in Empathy – one for the MSN account and the other for Gtalk. The same thing happens when someone has more than one accounts with the same service, maybe one for personal use and another for work. Or, it could be you who have multiple accounts.

GMail has introduced a new feature today – Priority Inbox. Priority Inbox does what its name suggest – sort your emails by priority.

Many users get a lot of emails. The spam filter in GMail does a very good job at eliminating all the spams. Nevertheless, there are many other emails which are not spams but are less important than others, i.e. you may not need a reply, and yet others may be important enough that you have to reply.

In case you do not know, Firefox is also making a browser for mobile devices. It is codenamed Fennec for now and the alpha currently available for Android and the Nokia N900. It had been available in the Nokia N900 for sometime but for Android it was released just a few days back.