Martin Kool, a developer from Web applications specialist Q42, has released his open source multi-player game engine. Sarien.net is a "portal for reliving the classic Sierra On-Line adventure games" and is completely browser based. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome are all supported.
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Improving Ubuntu Localization
Unlike proprietary platforms - and some Linux distributions - Ubuntu doesn't identify primarily with any single country or language. The operating system's developers are spread around the world, and aim to make their product equally available to all users, regardless of their locales. But how well have the challenges of localization been met?
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The Age of Reunion: Beyond Exploitation to an Economy of Solidarity
"...We'll conclude the program with another presentation from the 4 annual oekonux conference, Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production held in Manchester, England last month that brought together an international group of people from the free software movement that are exploring the application of peer to peer networks and free collaboration beyond software to society as a whole."
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What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism?
«...The Free Software movement is an example of an emergent movement with anarchist characteristics.
Read more »I eat FUD like you for breakfast
After reading Sandy Armstrong’s latest post on the status of Tomboy, I became curious about GNote, and went to read about it on Hub’s blog. Personally I agree with Sandy, GNote is a project that ultimately hurts GNOME and the free desktop more than it helps
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Open-source misperceptions live on
The enterprises, vendors, developers, analysts, and journalists I speak with regularly are mostly pretty savvy about the basics of open source at this point. Even if they're not licensing geeks or otherwise expert in all the minutiae and subtle implications of open-source development, community, and usage, they generally have the important basics down.
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Five Ideas To Get FOSS Into Governments
Why is it so hard to get governments (especially local government) to use open source software? Here are some ideas discussed during my keynote today in Oslo at GoOpen 2009 for practical steps various people, from citizens to policy wonks to representatives, can do to help get open source in actual use and delivering on its promise (and I know it's not easy)...
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Banshee as the default mediaplayer?
Jo Shields posts about his intention to propose switching Rhythmbox for Banshee in Karmic. (I'm trying to convince him to apply to be a MOTU, or at least an Ubuntu member, so he can be on Planet Ubuntu.) He's not the first to suggest it, but he is in the right place to make the proposal for this release.
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What would the open source community do with $US9.1 billion?
I couldn't help think that question this morning when the news came through from the US that Microsoft will increase its R&D spend by $US1 billion bringing its total to $US9.1 billion every year.
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Shuttleworth: Oracle's Sun buy validates open source
Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu and his CTO Matt Zimmerman held a press conference this AM to pre-announce the launch of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, which will become available this Thursday April 23rd. Aside from the product details on the upcoming release, Shuttleworth provided insight into what he sees the Oracle buy of Sun means to Ubuntu, and the wider open source ecosystem itself.
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Playdeb gaming repo for Ubuntu
This is a beta website for the Playdeb project. Playdeb is a gaming repository for Ubuntu - aimed to provide titles already available on getdeb.net in an easier to install and update format.
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Running Linux Under Windows
Microsoft Windows remains the dominant desktop operating system with approximately 90% of the client operating system market. If Microsoft's monopoly is ever going to be challenged by Linux, there has to be an easy way for Windows' users to be able to learn about this rival operating system.
Read more »Group test: project planners
If you were suffering in silence because you thought you couldn't draw a Gantt chart or an RBS diagram on Linux, you were wrong. In this article we'll present five project managers that are aimed at non-geek desktop users.
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Ubuntu on XO
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Split APE and FLAC Files in Ubuntu and Add Tags by Cue File
Did you ever downloaded a single APE or FLAC file consisting of multiple songs? If so, it's quite annoying to try and listen to only one song. But you can split the files into multiple songs exactly like in the cue file (each song's start and end time are saved in the cue file, so we'll know where to cut the big file).
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