"The free software community makes games, too. Among the more well-known ones is the Battle for Wesnoth — a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting. It doesn’t have shiny 3D graphics or cut-scenes, but it is an interesting and original game and is fun to play. This game is often simply called 'Wesnoth', and the package name is 'wesnoth'..."
Read more »Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated
"The Debian project is pleased to announce the eighth and final update of its old stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge'). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the oldstable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems..."
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Dell: No Plans for Ubuntu Linux Servers
Canonical, promoter of Ubuntu Linux, has plenty of momentum on the desktop. But as Canonical gears up for a server push, one key Ubuntu partner plans to sit on the sidelines. Indeed, Dell has no plans to ship Ubuntu on its servers, according to a Dell source who spoke with The VAR Guy today.
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The joy of using Ubuntu
It’s a strange feeling, but I really enjoy booting up and using Ubuntu—as my primary OS at home, like I have felt for no other before. I mean, I am neither a linux kernel diver, nor a developer. I’m just this regular guy—okay I run this website, but that’s it. Nothing fancier than that.
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Nvidia Linux Display Driver 173.08 Beta Released
Nvidia, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, released a new beta of its Linux video driver, version 173.08, which introduces support for some GeForce 9800, 9600, 9500 and 8400 graphic cards, among other bugfixes and improvements.
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Compiz is Cool – and Why That Matters
One of the most vexed questions within the open source world is when, if ever, GNU/Linux will take off on the desktop. Strangely, this isn't really about capabilities: as someone who has Ubuntu running on both of his main systems, I can attest to the fact that GNU/Linux is not just usable, it's a downright pleasure to use.
Read more »Flock 1.1 offers nectar for social butterflies
When we looked at Flock 0.9 last year, the social Web browser showed a lot of potential. Now that it's over the 1.0 hump, the Flock team has made good on the application's promise. Maybe too good -- while Flock serves up a lot of content on a single page, you practically need super-powers to take it all in.
Read more »Distribution Release: Linux XP 2008
Linux XP is a Fedora-based Russian distribution with the goal of porting the Windows XP user interface to the GNOME desktop. The latest version is 2008, released earlier this week
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Update: Extreme Linux Installing... well kind of
Greetings once again one and all, in the last post I mentioned how I'd recently found myself installing Linux whilst sat in the bar of a ferry crossing the Irish Sea. I have to say it's got to be the most exotic place I've ever installed Linux, so I thought I'd elaborate a little on an adventure in open source of an all together different nature.
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Using Gnu/Linux Tools to Recover DVD Video
Have you ever recorded an important video on a home DVD recorder? Do you use a camcorder that records directly on DVD disks? If you have had a recording fail to finalize properly, rendering it unusable, this post may help you.
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Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Set up BBDB
"The main address book and contact management module for Emacs is the Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB), which can be integrated into several mail clients and other modules within Emacs. If you use BBDB to keep track of contact information, you’ll be able to look up phone numbers or add notes to people’s records from your Emacs-based mail.
Read more »Basics of iptables
Alot of people are freaked out by IPTables and find it hard to understand. However, once you get the grasp of it the basics are easy. This document will serve as a basic how-to on using iptables.
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Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space
One of these is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis. The other is the same photograph overlaid with a familiar logo. Can you tell which is which?
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Using Linux to install Windows XP on a Vista Notebook
Bright and early this morning some guys came into our shop with a newish notebook with a major problem: they'd killed Vista and their rescue partition. They came armed with a legitimate Windows XP Home CD and key but said they weren't able to get XP on the notebook. It may sound odd, but Linux was the solution to getting XP working on the machine.
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Joomla! An Intro
Joomla! is a world class content management system that allows you to easily create high-quality, professional Websites. Out of the box, provides a very robust feature set, and with the recent release of 1.5 Stable, the programing API allows it to be extended far beyond most people's wildest dreams. Highlighting some of the features Joomla!
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