Microsoft Surface Pro allows to run Linux

During a session of the popular AMAA (Ask me almost anything) that was recently held on the platform of contents Reddit, Panos Panay, vice president of Microsoft and elements of the Surface engineering team answered a set of questions for the Surface, version PRO.

One of the questions posed by the user Nygmatic was if the new tablet from Microsoft allows to disable the secure boot so they can install eg Linux distributions. In response elements of Microsoft stated that it is possible to disable this functionality, like any machine with Windows 8, allowing the installation of Linux distributions. However, this only applies to Surface Surface Pro since the RT is only limited to Windows.

Surface Pro will be on sale tomorrow from $899.
 

Valve improves Games for Linux

The game Left 4 Dead 2 had a 14% higher performance on a Linux system compared to a Windows system with the same hardware configuration.

The game was tested on a machine with an Intel Core i7 3930k, Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 and 32 GB of RAM. In the system with Ubuntu 12 and Open GL, the game has a performance of 315 FPS, while the Windows 7 machine was up by 270.6 FPS. 

The research team concluded that the Valve Open GL is more efficient to process data than Direct3D technology. The Linux Valve team will still have to battle a lot, especially to get work with the graphics card manufacturers such as AMD or Nvidia. 

These tests are published days after the CEO of Valve have stated that Windows 8 was a disaster and that the company would turn over to Linux.