While most open-source games still lack the graphics quality and features that the latest proprietary game engines support within retail games that are backed by the large studios, their quality has been improving as with their artwork and other characteristics. As an example of this, Warsow 0.5.
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Linux doesn't suffer from the economic downturn
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Currently Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic slowdown. Reduced demand for its Windows OS & other software products has had a negative impact on the software giant. Both sales & profit are down. Meanwhile, Linux isn't feeling any impact at all.
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Linux File Ownership
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You can change the owner and group of a file or a directory with the chown command. Please, keep in mind you can do this only if you are the root user or the owner of the file. Set the file's owner: $ chown username somefile After giving this command, the new owner of a file called somefile will be the user username. The file's group owner will not change.
Read more »Add Screenlets to make your Linux desktop more useful
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If you spend as much time on the Linux desktop as I do, having small applets available for specific tasks can make your life that much easier. If you use the KDE 4.x desktop you will be familiar with Widgets. For the GNOME users there is an application called Screenlets.
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InfoJobs.net Selects Red Hat and JBoss Solutions For Critical Business Platform
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Red Hat today announced that InfoJobs.net, one of the leading employment websites in Spain, has migrated its critical web business platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with the help of Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner.
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OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 Released
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OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 has been released. You can find full release notes, HERE.
You can download Windows files, Linux - .DEB and .RPM and Mac OSX files for OpenOffice 3.1.1 from HERE.
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The Bubble: Microsoft Social Land
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I was curious enough to day to have a look at a link-back to yesterday’s blog post. It was at Neowin. Now the neowin news site does seem to be a bubble of Microsoft lovers.
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The Dell-HP amicus brief, PDF and text
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Seattle PI's Nick Eaton has provided the PDF of the Dell amicus brief, at last! Webster was going to run to the court today for us, when I saw journalists quoting from the brief but not giving us the PDF to read it for ourselves. We don't just want to know what reporters think is important. We want to know for ourselves what *we* think is important. For that, we need the PDFs.\
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Apache’s Gianugo Rabellino to Keynote openSUSE Conference
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Our closing keynote will be delivered by Gianugo Rabellino, Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense and member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
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Rolling Distributions (or how I came to love Gentoo)
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The concept of a rolling distribution is that there are no new releases. You install the base and from there you just keep your packages updated. Before I moved to Gentoo which is my current favorite distribution I was primarily a Slackware user.
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Ubuntu 9.10 are we ready?
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I was wondering what effect a release of Ubuntu 9.10 being released at the same time as Windows 7 and Mac “Snow leopard”. First thing we have to ask is are we ready?
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One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 Progress Report
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One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 came and went last week, and good progress was made:
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Best Linux Desktop Blogging Clients
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A lot of people ask me if there are any desktop blogging clients for Linux that can be used for offline editing -- something like Windows Live Writer. So I'm going to answer them through this post... for those of you who really want to have a desktop blogging client, here are some of the decent ones that you should try
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Issue #2 of of Opensourc3 Magazine is available!
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Opensourc3 is a magazine dedicated to Unified and Cloud Computing using open source technologies. It is published on a monthly basis
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Atom-based thin clients run Linux
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10Zig Technology has announced two physically identical thin clients compatible with Linux: a RBT-602 model, offering terminal emulation, and a RBT-672v system targeted solely at virtual desktop environments. Both thin clients offer a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, gigabit Ethernet, and four USB ports, the company says.
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