Urban Terror (or UrT for short, not to be confused with Unreal Tournament) is a great standalone first-person shooter available for Linux too, using the ioQuake3 engine. In this article I'll show several ways to make it a little faster by tweaking several variables in favour of performance over good looking graphics.
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Microsoft under threat from Linux - it's official
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Microsoft has warned investors about new threats to its precious client-side tech ecosystem, by listing Linux vendors Canonical and Red Hat as rivals in its annual Form 10-K filing. The software giant also acknowledged Apple’s impressive market share grab in the US, where it now commands fourth place for total shipments.
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LinuxCon announces speakers
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Linux Foundation's inaugural LinuxCon event is scheduled for Sept. 21-23, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. LinuxCon intends to draw a mix of end-users, administrators, and top Linux developers, with speakers including Linus Torvalds, Mark Shuttleworth, and Greg Kroah-Hartman.
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10 basic Ubuntu applications
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This is just a simple list of really useful, maybe basic applications available from the Ubuntu repositories. Again this is just my list and in time it might grow to more then 10.
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Lucidor 0.6 E-Book Reader Can Handle Web Feeds
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Lucidor, a desktop program that reads e-books, is available in version 0.6. The open source software can also read and archive Web feeds.
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Sweet Home 3D: Open Source, Cross Platform Design Application
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The key thing to keep in mind with Sweet Home 3D is that zoom is as useful as any of the building tools. Walls, rooms, half walls, and furniture can be set at any angle (and the angles and dimensions are calculated as the structure is laid out).
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Swiss Open Source Decision Going Microsoft's Way
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A preliminary ruling around the legality of the Swiss government's decision to allow a software contract to be awarded to Microsoft without any other vendors being asked to tender has found in favour of the tech giant.
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Red Hat Announces Finalists in Third Annual Innovation Awards
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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the award-winning finalists in its third annual Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards.
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Obamacare VS Open-source
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What does socialized healthcare mean for open source software's market penetration? Well, let's look at some simple concepts first. What is open source? The idea of things being open source, means that there can be open collaboration, sharing, etc. It also means that anyone can come up with his/her own solution to a problem and implement his/her solution within the community.
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Mozilla Store Vendor Security Breach
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Today, Mozilla discovered that GatewayCDI, the third party vendor entrusted to run the backend of the Mozilla Store, suffered a security breach. Once notified, we took the immediate preventative step of shutting down the Mozilla Store.
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Open-Xchange Tries To Liberate Your Contact List
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Hear that? It’s the sound of servers in Switzerland sucking down information from social networking sites. Open-Xchange, an open-source e-mail and collaboration software maker, has set up a test Web site that allows people to pull in their contact information from various social networking services like LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Linux GFX and state of drivers
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Well this thread maybe useful for people who are planning to purchase a system for linux use only and which GFX card to choose mainly ATI, NVIDIA or Intel.
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A Look at Linux Educacional 3.0
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A week or so ago I stumbled across an article, in Portuguese, from March of this year that talks about a program the Brazilian government's ministry of education is expanding. It's pretty exciting, especially for those interested in Linux.
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Tiny Core Linux v2.2
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Tiny Core Linux v2.2 is released. It is a very small (10 MB) minimal Linux Desktop, which runs very well on a Netbook.
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Open source software - Essential Guide
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Free and open source software is seeing steady adoption among small to large UK businesses, as they begin to take it to the heart of their organisations for key enterprise applications in a bid to lower IT costs.
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