Many a day on the Ubuntu Forums I stumble upon posts like Program X doesnt work under ubuntu Im leaving. As it turns out some of these posts are for the Source games mainly the multiplayer ones Counter Strike Source Day of Defeat Source Half Life 2 Deathmatch Team Fortress 2. For that purpose Im gonna make a short guide just to show how I had luck getting the Source games to work.
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How to install and Configure compiz Fusion in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)
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Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE. Compiz Fusion is a collection of plugins and a configuration system for the Compiz compositing window manager. It was created from the remerging of Beryl into Compiz.
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Fedora 12 LXDE Spin Screenshots
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Fedora 12 LXDE spin available for download. LXDE, the 'Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment', is an extremely fast and energy-saving desktop environment. It is maintained by an international community of developers and comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard shortcuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing.
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With the growing popularity of netbooks, it is no surprise that many Linux distributions and software developers have created customized versions of their software to run on them. Not to be counted out, KDE now has a version of their desktop environment designed for netbooks.
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openSUSE 11.2 – For New Users and Pros Alike
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openSUSE is a commercially-backed Open Source Linux distribution with origins in Germany. Novell bought SuSE in November 2004 and has been releasing a freely downloadable community-based Linux desktop since August 2005.
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The CinelerraCV Project
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Continuing my tour of Linux-based video editors this week I've profiled Cinelerra. Specifically I've reviewed the community-supported version produced by the CinelerraCV project.
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Trauma – Flash Based Point-and-Click Adventure
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Trauma is a point-and-click adventure game where the game world is a huge collection of photos which create the world, the player can zoom in (thus revealing new closer photos and details) or out, move to different directions and even draw symbols which do stuff.
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What Chrome OS has on Windows that Linux doesn’t
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Google’s Chrome OS isn’t the first operating system to challenge Microsoft Windows’ commanding lead. But it’s got an advantage that other rivals such as Linux lacked: the Web.
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Review: Crossover Games (Linux) 8.1.3
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Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel, OSX Mac or Linux PC.
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SimplyMEPIS 8.5 beta1 Released
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MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 8.4.90, the beta1 of MEPIS 8.5. This beta includes a 2.6.32 kernel that is one patch short of the final. The next beta will probably contain kernel 2.6.32.1. We still use KDE 4.3.2 but we're hoping we can leverage the dedicated efforts of the Debian KDE Team to update to a newer version soon.
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Font smoothing in OpenSUSE 11.2
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I have switched to OpenSUSE 11.2 recently. Although, I've enabled anti-aliasing option from System Settings panel, I notice that fonts aren't displayed smoothly and they are ugly.Two days ago, I found the solution for this problem. It is easy just upgrade the freetype2 packages to use subpixel hinting feature.
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Hands-on: Plasma, KWin improve in KDE SC 4.4 beta 1
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The developers behind KDE have announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.4 beta 1. We conducted hands-on testing to see what the new version brings to the desktop.
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Wine 1.1.34
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The Wine development release 1.1.34 is available now. With Wine it's possible to run Windows applications on top of Linux.
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Is Tabbed Windows Going To Be The Next Big Thing?
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With the release of KDE SC 4.4 Beta 1, tabbed windows is now available through its windows manager KWin. This raises the question, is tabbed windows going to be the next big thing after tabbed browsing?
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Android-x86 - run Google Android on a netbook
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Although Google Android is an operating system designed to run on smartphones, it's also possible to run it on netbooks.
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