Are there many high quality commercial games available for Linux? That's one of the frequently asked questions we receive in our mailbox every week.
Read more »42 of the Best Commercial Linux Games
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Slackware tips — quick and easy things to make the box work better
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FolderView is the awesome?!
So there has been a lot of confusion about the KDE 4 desktop and FolderView lately and some nasty stuff I don’t want to go into right now. In the comments to Aaron’s blog someone said they don’t see how exactly it will be better and help them be more productive. So let me show you it
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Koreans to showcase open source experience in Cebu summit
The local community will get a first-hand account of South Korea's open source experience from government and private executives visiting a national meet in Cebu later this month.
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BECTA Rubbishes Almost the Entire UK Open Source Industry
I've written a number of times about BECTA, charting its constant flip-flops on open source in schools – sometimes damning it, sometimes driving it. Like me, you've probably been increasingly confused about BECTA's real attitude to free software.
Read more »The Bank of Common Knowledge
"...The contents generated are Copyleft, and can be copied, redistributed or modified freely. Based on the organization of meetings among citizens, the Bank of Common Knowledge experiments with new forms of production, learning and citizen participation..."
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Is Java the new COBOL? Yes. What does that mean, exactly? (Part 1)
"...Java is the new COBOL, whaaaat?[...]I believe that the 'Java is the new COBOL' is a politically correct way for saying "Java sucks"[...] I have been reading a lot about Richard Stallman, the free software advocate. He has one central theme that he uses to defend his free software movement; free software is not about the developers, it is about the users.
Read more »Open source project management app hits 500K downloads
Open source application OpenProj, a Microsoft Project replacement, has been downloaded more than 500,000 times, says Marc O'Brien, CEO of OpenProj's sponsoring company Projity.
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Red Hat cancels one-click world domination effort
We called Red Hat on Monday to address speculation that its RHX (Red Hat Exchange) program was about to go tits-up. Red Hat responded to the concerns today with a blog post.
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Linux top OS in MIDs
Linux will be a top OS in MIDs (mobile Internet devices), suggests a report from Forward Concepts. The report, aimed at quantifying MID-related opportunities for chip makers, identifies TI and Qualcomm as well-positioned in an emergent market expected to reach 40 million unit shipments globally within four years.
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Patent trolls are getting smarter
When you're driving down the highway and you see a spotless white tanker truck with a big green tree painted on the side, you can be pretty sure that it's full of hazardous waste. Likewise, companies with "innovation" in their names are generally innovation-hostile patent trolls.
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ISO process slammed
SA, Venezuela, India and Brazil have successfully stalled the publication of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).
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krank - a little casual game
krank is a game of dexterity, being somewhere between Breakout and billiard, where the aim of each level is to shove floating stones towards compatible static stones. You control a short chain of stones with your mouse to achieve that.
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Shell Scripting, Factorial Primes And Huge Number Computations On Linux And Unix
A look at prime, composite and relative prime number generation and machine/OS limitations common to deriving them.
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Desktops in trouble
there are some disturbing developments and they are happening in the key components of our systems: the desktop. KDE has spawned a new release, KDE 4.x, and although it looked promising at first, KDE is in trouble. People are not only complaining about its instability (which is not a good thing in itself) but also about the direction KDE is taking. It is a change of paradigm.
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