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Ready for more indie games? Hopefully you are, because the Humble Bundle for Android 4 has just launched, and it has some pretty excellent games in tow. After taking a brief break from gaming with a surprise eBook bundle, the folks at Humble Bundle are back with some more traditional offerings. As always, you get to name your own price for the bundle, which only serves to make the deal sweeter.

There are five games included in the Humble Indie Bundle for Android 4: Splice, Eufloria, Waking Mars, Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, and Crayon Physics Deluxe. If you beat the average purchase price – which at the time of this writing sits at $5.62 (it’s rising quickly too) – you’ll get Machinarium added in as a bonus. All of these games are compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, with most of these games making their Android debut. You also get soundtracks for each game, so there are plenty of bonus goodies to take advantage of in the Humble Bundle for Android 4.

As with all other Humble Bundles, the games offered in this one come DRM-free, so you’re free to install them on as many machines (or phones) as you want. A customizable portion of your purchase price will be going to help charity, namely Child’s Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This particular Humble Bundle seems to be pretty popular, as it’s already managed to pull in over $55,000.

Of course, if Humble Bundles of the past are any indication, this is just the start. In about a week, more games will be added to the Humble Bundle for Android 4, so we’ll be keeping an eye out for those. The Humble Bundle for Android 4 has two weeks to go before it’s gone forever, so if you’re thinking you might like to pick it up, don’t wait too long.

Humble Bundle for Android 4 launches with six games is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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NVIDIA and Linux haven’t always been the most welcoming of bedfellows, but Valve seems to be defrosting that relationship somewhat. The Half Life maker has helped NVIDIA to tweak its 600 series GeForce drivers to reduce games’ loading times when used on Linus’ operating system. The R310 drivers are said to double performance when using Steam for Linux, which openes for beta today, meaning that you can try and survive twice as many zombie apocalypses in Left 4 Dead than you could a week ago.

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HP has become a platinum member of the The Linux Foundation, part of what is described as the PC manufacturers “prioritizing” of the open-source OS for future devices. HP, who was previously a gold member of the Foundation, now joins Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, and others as a platinum sponsor, and in return gains a seat on the board of directors and more input into group activities.

That input is described as being “directly involved in advancing Linux-based initiatives, workgroups, Labs, events, and more that support its business goals” by The Linux Foundation, though specifics of what HP hopes to achieve are conspicuous by their absence. The company itself name-checks Linux as “a strategic asset” but gives little more in the way of insight into exactly what strategy that might be.

Nonetheless, Linux has a place across HP’s range, with servers, printers, networking kit, and other hardware all using the open-source platform. Open webOS, meanwhile – the open-source version of webOS – is also based on the Linux kernel, though as yet has been little used in any consumer-facing way.

Still, it’s a sign that HP is hedging its bets on positioning moving forward, something CEO Meg Whitman has warned is still a work-in-progress. The company has seen sales of desktops, accessories, and other hardware dip in recent quarters.

Platinum membership in The Linux Foundation is priced at $500,000 each year, five-times more than what gold members pay.

HP pays $500,000 for Linux Foundation Platinum membership is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Things have been hopping in the land of Ubuntu lately, with the operating system securing a pending date with Steam, an appearance on the Nexus 7 and an April 25 launch for version 13.04. Now the OS is getting another extra hop in its step as word of a “future Ubuntu SDK” was dropped at a recent developer summit in Copenhagen. The powers-that-be mentioned the need to start discussions in order to define potential criteria for assessing technologies and libraries for inclusion in an Ubuntu SDK, as well as what tools to throw in. Although it appears that an Ubuntu SDK will not be the focus for 13.04 for now, mention of a software development kit should be welcome news for folks eager to bring apps to the OS. Interest piqued? Check out the source link to see the Ubuntu SDK assessment criteria.

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