Runesoft has recently published a demo of the Ankh sequel "Ankh2: Heart of Osiris" and liflg started seeding it via their bittorrent tracker. Ankh 2 is a classical adventure with sweet graphics, elaborated and funny story.
Read more »The state of WoW on Linux
During the dev panel a few minutes ago, Tom Chilton told us something interesting about playing World of Warcraft on the Linux platform -- Blizzard has actually had it working. For "compatibility purposes," they apparently had an internal build of the game that worked on Linux.
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OpenSUSE 11: nice kid, bad custodians
Sometime back, I had a couple of encounters with OpenSUSE, the so-called community distribution which was started by Novell in 2005. Neither of them was exactly salutary. For example, in October last year, version 10.3 was released and my efforts to see what it was all about were frustrated to a large extent by the downloads themselves.
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Beating Sandvine on Linux with iptables
If you are tired of Sandvine (the application used by Comcast to throttle Bit Torrent with fake TCP packet resets) screwing with your BitTorrent and a user of GNU/Linux, then this is for you. I will tell you how to take your bandwidth back.
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Making the right Linux choice
Which version of Linux? We offer a simple guide to Linux distributions.
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Ubuntu Linux
I've been a user of the Linux operating system since kernel 0.99 in 1994. I've watched it improve steadily over the past 14 years, but there was always some function or application missing that meant I had to keep at least one PC around with a current version of Windows on it. Linux could do 95% of the job, but sometimes I needed that other 5%.
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Battle Royale: Ubuntu 8.04 vs. openSUSE 11
All things are set for today’s epic battle. Two major release versions of two major Linux distributions will take the stage for what could be the fight of the year. Dubbed as the Battle Royale, it’s Ubuntu 8.04 vs. openSUSE 11 for our mega main event.
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GIMP - How to use the tools, part I
We quickly view the main functions of the implemented tools on the GIMP tool dialog. The elliptic selection tool, the pencil, the color selection, the darken brush, the smudge tool, etc. are just some of the helpful tools that GIMP includes. We make some experiments just to show what can be done.
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10 IRC client for Linux
For many like me IRC is the main chat medium to share information about things we love. Be it linux, Ubuntu, games, whatever; there are always channels with many like minded people to talk to. There are a huge number of IRC clients out there, listing them all for me would be an impossible task.
Read more »Vagalume — A GTK+-based Last.fm client
Vagalume is my favorite Last.fm client. Vagalume is based on GTK+. It supports GNOME and Maemo platform. If you’re look for cool Last.fm client, I recommend you try out Vagalume.
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Gdium, another Eee PC competitor
The mini-laptop runs on the Mandriva G-Linux Linux distro & offers many applications like, Open Office, Firefox, ThunderBird, ClamAv, Spam Assassin & Gimp.
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Getting Started with GNU Privacy Guard
Keeping information safe and away from eyes that shouldn’t see it can be pretty important. Here in the UK we’ve had several instances where the government has lost personal information. Since that information wasn’t encrypted, it could be in anyone’s hands by now.
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Linux Got Game: Urban Terror 4.1 Review
I had the time to play yet another exciting game on my Linux box. It’s a free first person shooter called Urban Terror. The game is a total modification of the immensely popular Quake III Arena. It introduces many elements of the tactical shooter genre --team-driven gaming in more realistic environments.
Read more »Creating DVD subtitles using Linux tools
My mother is completely deaf without her cochlear implant, so closed captions and subtitles on DVDs are standard fare in our house. However, when I make a home movie, I haven't always had a way to subtitle it for her.
Read more »Synchronize directories with Komparator and KDiff3
If you work some of the time on your laptop and some of the time on your desktop box, making sure that your work is updated on both machines is a must. Many tools can help you accomplish this, from command-line tools such as scp and rsync to generic graphical applications like Konqueror or Krusader, to more specific tools like Unison.
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