S2 Games may not be as well known as id Software or Epic Games, but what distinguishes them from most of the other game companies is that they actually support Linux.
Read more »Always Up To Date Linux
Introducing "Always Up To Date", our classification for Operating Systems that are ALWAYS updated on the day they it ship from On-Disk.com, so you always receive the absolute latest we can provide.
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Xfce: New Life For Old Hardware
My time on X is relegated to my secondary computer, a dual 1.46GHz pentium 4 laptop with only 1 Gb of ram. My growing sentiment about running KDE4 on that laptop is that the experience is rather, well, pokey. So, I had three ideas in mind: Xfce, LXDE and ROX Desktop.
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Two Different Ways of Installing Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04
Firefox 3.5 has been released several weeks ago, but some Ubuntu 9.04 users out there may still be using the older 3.0 version. They should not expect that they will get an automatic update since this latest Firefox release will not be officially included in Ubuntu until 9.10 "Karmic Koala".
Read more »sidux 2009.02, waiting for antiX M8.2
There was some sad news on the sidux front, because there were unfortunate conflicts within the development ranks that caused quite a stir, and I was accidentally involved in some of it.
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CODEWEAVERS TO OVERTAKE MICROSOFT BY 2018
Current Sales Trend Indicates Gadfly Open Source Developers Will Be Nation's Largest Provider of Windows Technology; Microsoft Imperiled CodeWeavers Offers to Buy Microsoft Campus "On Credit" The answer: third quarter, 2018.
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Firefox 3.0.12 security and stability release now available
As part of the Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing security and stability process, Firefox 3.0.12 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users as a free download from firefox.com.
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Tether an Android Phone Using Proxoid
The Android Market features a few tethering applications, so it should be easy to use your Android phone as a wireless modem.
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Fedora 11, Meet The RPM Fusion Website
SO, there I was, having installed Fedora 11 on a dusty old Compaq Presario - 700MHz AMD Duron processor, 10GB HDD! - and things had gone relatively smoothly, if glacially slowly.
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LyX made easy
But although Latex is a hugely powerful piece of software, getting to grips with it can be a real headache if you'd rather just sit down and get to work. Luckily, that's where Lyx comes in...
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10 outstanding Linux backup utilities
A dependable backup tool is not a luxury - everyone needs to have one. But that doesn’t mean you need to spend a fortune to get the feature set that meets your needs. Jack Wallen introduces some great Linux backup solutions, including a few that are cross platform.
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New brushes for your GIMP!
For painters and designers they are a must have - custom brushes! They save lots of time and it is fun to work with new ones of course ;)
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Vietnamese netbook runs on bilingual Linux distro
Vietnamese Linux technology firm Hacao has released a netbook, along with a new bilingual (English/Vietnamese) release of its Hacao Linux 2009 CE distro. The Hacao Netbook is based on an Intel Atom-based MSI Wind.
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KDE 4.3 RC3 Released
The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.3 RC3, a release candidate of the 3rd iteration over the KDE 4 desktop, applications and development platform.
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Miro 2.5 released
There are numerous improvements to this famous video aggregator, the most noticeable is that Miro now starts and updates feeds faster. This is probably the most important update as on my netbook Miro took about 10 seconds to start and about a full minute to update my feeds! (I have a lot of feeds)
Another feature that netbook users will appreciate is...
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