It’s not that Linux as an OS isn’t capable of running quality games, it’s just that game manufacterers don’t think the Linux gamers can make them any money. For that reason, it’s always nice when a game is released with a native Linux version.
Read more »Linux Gaming: Heroes of Newerth
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It LiVES! Video Editing For FOSS Movie Makers
Studio Dave is set up for personal audio production, but video capabilities are on the horizon. Now the fun level has jumped up a few notches with version 1.0.0pre1 of LiVES, a video editing system for Linux.
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Firefox 3.0.12 Fixes Five Critical Security Issues
Mozilla recommends its updated Firefox 3.0.12 version for its new 3.0 series in that it removes a few critical security issues.
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Choosing a trilogy of distributions
I happen to choose a trilogy of distributions because I am looking for three different styles of systems.
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Installing Eeebuntu On The eeePC 1000HE
The box on the doorstep contained the ASUS eeePC 1000HE, a Logitech XV Nano mouse, a replacement 2-GB DDR2 6400 memory module and arrived just two days after I placed my order with CompUSA online. Total retail bill for these parts came to US$520 with tax.
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Mandriva 2009.1 Review
Mandriva 2009.1 is overall an excellent transition from Windows to Linux, and comes with many great features for the tech-savvy user who wants an improved, sleek desktop look and feel as well as an abundance of programs to use.
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How to boot Linux after Windows XP installation
What if you're using Windows XP in a dual boot system and disaster strikes and you have to reinstall and you don’t have a Linux live cd ?
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Howto install VLC media player 1.0.0 in Ubuntu
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
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Five Open Source Apps to Manage Your Collections
Comic books, DVDs, old vinyl albums, Star Wars figurines -- collecting things is fun. What's not fun, though, is keeping track of it all. Here are five open source collection management apps to help you organize your stuff.
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Liferea First 1.6.x Stable Version | How To Install It in Ubuntu
Liferea developers have announced the availability of the first stable version of the 1.6.x series. Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed.
Read more »My KDE 4.x Desktop Activities Tutorial
Desktop Activities is a desktop usability concept that allows you to have multiple style and other settings for your desktop or desktops. There you have it, my attempt at a one sentence definition.
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Foresight Linux - Tough love
Foresight Linux advertises itself as a modern operating system, featuring intuitive user interface and a wide range of innovative applications intended to make the desktop experience instantly pleasurable. One of the way Foresight Linux achieves this is by blending free and proprietary software.
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Karmic Koala Alpha 3 arrives
The development of the next version of Ubuntu continues with the third alpha release of Karmic Koala. According to the announcement, this alpha contains software updates which "are now ready for large scale testing". Alpha 3 is one of a number of milestones which the Ubuntu developers release as they progress towards the final October release of Ubuntu 9.10.
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Fastpatx – A Quick and Simple Web Browser
I recently stumbled across Fastpatx web browser, which is written in PyQT and contains around 50 lines of code. It is very simple and has a very plain and uncrowded interface.
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How to set up your own Linux media server
In this tutorial we're going to show you how to set up two types of media server: an on-demand server for all media types, and a streaming server for audio files.
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