On the back of the dotcom boom, Michael Simms ploughed £350,000 of his own money into a games company with the intention of bringing some of the most playable Windows titles to Linux.
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I’ve been watching, and involved with, LinuxWorld Expo since the very early days. As with other operating system focused conferences in the past, the conference has had its glory days and then faced a declining interest from sponsors and attendees.
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Is Linux Irrelevant?
It's not the distro or even the Linux kernel that matter. It's the things made with Linux -- the servers, smartphones, netbooks, and other mobile devices.
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KDE 4.3 on a MacBook Pro
Recently, KDE 4.2 had become my default system on this machine, after I got it set up exactly how I wanted.
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Quick List Of Things You Need To Do After Installing Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the most popoular GNU/Linux distrbution with millions of active users. Being popular also means that, there are a lot of newbie users as well. Here is a quick list of things a newbie Ubuntu user should knew.
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Intel-Microsoft Collusion in Sub-notebooks: A Smoking Gun
More compelling evidence for ongoing investigation into price-fixing
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Signs That Microsoft Might Prepare for ‘Patent Terror’ Against Rival Office Suites
Signs of increased patent aggression in Microsoft's behaviour amid sinking profits
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Linux Ain't Broke But Here's Five Ways to Fix It
Linux distributions could use a boost in a few different areas, specifically these five: Virtualization, Graphics, Games, Point-of-Sale and Education.
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Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
It’s been a while since we’ve had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner.
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Summer ‘09 Distro Round-up:
I picked a Lenovo Y530 which also turned out to be quite an awesomely compatible Linux machine when tested w/ a Live USB, so I decided to make it my “Linux Box”. But what distro to run? Here are a few brief “non-review” reviews of distros on my hardware.
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Cube 2: Sauerbraten - Awesome First-Person Shooter
In this article I'll overview Cube 2: Sauerbraten, an open-source shooter running on Linux, which also provides a gaming engine for developing FPS games.
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Zenwalk 6 – Gnome
Zenwalk has always had the reputation as being a distro for the more seasoned Linux user, with the release of Zenwalk 6 Gnome, has this changed? Has this Slackware based distro taken the route of Ubuntu? Short answer – not really, but then why should it?
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Impressions of C#
Over the last month and a half I’ve been working on an application using C#, .NET, and Windows.Forms in Visual Studio 2008. At first it seemed like they took the worst instead of the best things from Java and C++, but overall I’ve gotten to like the language. Here are some of my thoughts.
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Makagiga, the taskmanager with the funny name
On the computer, I am surprisingly orderly but my life outside of the computer is a different story. I have been thinking there needs to be some way I can digital organize the non digital parts of my life. So i went looking.
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How are Open Source Software Projects Surviving the Recession?
The challenging U.S. economic recession has hit just about every segment of our economy--so how's it been affecting open source software development projects and their contributors?
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