For those trying to find a new Linux game that offers good graphics while not being a first person shooter with little to no plot -- as is the case for a majority of the commercial and open-source games available for Linux -- the Amnesia: The Dark Descent game is expected to be released next month.
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Guitarix - A simple Linux Rock Guitar Amplifier for jack
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guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar Amplifier for jack (Jack Audio Connektion Kit) with one input and two outputs. Designed to get nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds.
Read more »How to Create High Quality Drum Beats with Hydrogen
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Linux is known for a lot of great things, but you rarely see it listed as a platform of choice for multimedia production. Some of that poor reputation for multimedia has long been deserved, but in recent years the quality of Linux’s audio and video applications has been steadily increasing. One of the best loved of these is Hydrogen, a high quality drum machine application.
Read more »f.lux For Linux Now Sports A Simple GUI
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There’s nothing new about f.lux, a piece of software designed to make nighttime computer usage easier on your eyes. There isn’t even, in theory, anything new about flux in the Linux world. What is new is the GUI for f.lux.
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Spicebird: A Modern Thunderbird Remix
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Take Thunderbird, mix liberally with calendaring, instant messaging, and release it on Linux and Windows. What do you get? Spicebird, a collaboration client that remixes Thunderbird to bring the creaking mail client up to date for today's users. Spicebird has been in the works for some time, but the 0.8 release is finally ready for a wider audience.
Read more »What Linux Hardware Upgrades Make Sense?
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While Linux runs great on most any hardware, it runs even better on a machine with ample memory and a recent CPU. Upgrade options abound for even the most hardware hacking averse. In this monthly roundup we'll take a look at options to get your Linux system running even better.
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odt2braille brings Braille to OpenOffice.org
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New extension make OpenOffice.org a "complete Braille authoring environment" with support for Braille embossers, direct Braille entry and customisable layouts
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How to install limewire in ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
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LimeWire is a multi-platform Gnutella client with nice features like auto-connect, groups, browse host, multiple search, upload throttling, connection quality control, library management and sophisticated filtering. It is built for the both the novice and power user.
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GNOME Shell - Ambiance Theme
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This is a GNOME Shell theme based on the Ubuntu Lucid theme called Ambiance.
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Marave - Distraction Free Writing
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The never-ceasing distractions of tweets, pokes on Facebook, Gmail spam to review are all enemies of writing. Was there ever an activity assailed by the vampires of impetuosity as much as writing?
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Connecting iPhone to Linux Using OpenSSH and FileZilla
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Connecting iPhone to Linux Using OpenSSH and FileZilla: If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you can only harness its full power if you can connect with it remotely and transfer files to and from the device using your computer.
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Trimage - A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files
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Trimage is a cross-platform GUI and command-line interface to optimize image files via optipng, advpng and jpegoptim, depending on the filetype (currently, PNG and PG files are supported). It was inspired by imageoptim. All image files are losslessy compressed on the highest available compression levels.
Read more »GCstar - An application for managing your movie/games collection
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GCstar is a free open source application for managing your collections. Detailed information on each item can be automatically retrieved from the internet and you can store additional data, such as the location or who you’ve lent it to. You may also search and filter your collection by many criteria.
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New cloud-init Features in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
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Alongside the desktop and server editions of Ubuntu, Canonical has put considerable effort into Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud recently. This investment is poised to pay off with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), which will introduce several enhancements to the cloud-init package when it debuts next October 2010. Here's a preview of some of the changes that Ubuntu cloud users have to look forward to.
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Making room in the sound indicator
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In Maverick we're adding the new Ayatana indicator for sound, Conor Curran's very classy implementation of MPT's very classy spec. It's a Category Indicator, like the messaging menu, so it allows apps to embed themselves into it in a standard and appropriate way.
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