Tiny & Big review

I noticed that a game landed in Gentoo portage :

Tiny and big is an interesting mix between a platform game, FPS, puzzle and physics game.
Simply put this is the best game I ever played on Linux. I played it with my sandy bridge despite the intel graphics beeing not supported and I had to run driconf (you need to emerge x11-misc/driconf) to enable S3TC texture compression.

The game was definitely playable despite a weird bug with the fonts, all the texts disappeared

So I missed the dialogs but even without them, the game is awesome : you play a little character in realistic physic world where you can cut huuge parts of the landscape, drag the parts with a cable or push them by sending it a little rocket in order to achieve your goal either in action mode and/or puzzle mode.
You can see some of the gameplay in the official trailer:
The game is a little bit short but I hope a follow up will be made. It is really nice to see such a nice game on linux from an independent studio.

Hacker's Keyboard by Klaus Weidner review

Related to my other posts on running gentoo on Xoom.
If you don't have a physical bluetooth keyboard or an use keyboard with an OTG usb adapter, you can use Hacker's Keyboard.

It is really cool, you have all the keys you miss under Better Terminal Pro.
It has a tons of options so you can "dumb it down" no autocorrect, no suggestions etc ... so it doesn't bother you when you type the weird console commands.

Enjoy and thx to Klaus for this free app !