PainTown is a 2D fighting game somewhat similar with popular titles like Street Fighter (it even allows you to play with a character called Blanka), with versions available for Linux too, besides Windows and Mac. The nice thing about PainTown is that it runs natively on Linux and it's a standalone game, so you won't need any emulator like NeoGeo to play it.
Read more »42 Hot Free Linux Games (Part 1 of 3)
The myths persist, however, when it comes to Linux. In the eyes of many computer users, Linux is perceived as largely functional, mostly restricted to running servers, office tasks and web browsing.
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Kustodian - a taskbar and quicklauncher combined
I'd like to introduce a little pet project of mine: Kustodian, which some people would call a ripoff of the mac dock or windows 7 taskbar. But I maintain it's a thing of it's own, but it indeed has some similarities.
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Viewnior: A simple and elegant image viewer
Images are part of our every day Internet usage and a good image viewer is an integral part of a good operating system. Viewnior is one such application for Linux.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bringing Windows games to Linux
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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SUSE Studio: Too Good To Be True?
I just built my own Linux distribution through my browser. It can be ran as a Live CD or installed on your system. No, you did read that correctly. I actually used Firefox to build my own SUSE-based distro.
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Fedora 11 Intel Poulsbo (GMA500) Graphic Drivers Repository
Adam Williamson has made available a repository containing a full set of packages to install the driver for Intel Poulsbo (GMA500) graphics chipsets (found in the Dell Mini 12, Sony Vaio P and other systems) on Fedora 11 (i586 only, not working for x86_64).
Read more »Keep an eye on your own open source cloud environment
Want to live in the cloud but don’t quite trust it? SourceForge's open source project of the month for August may be for you! eyeos is a self-hosted cloud operating environment for business, schools and home built in PHP.
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6 Alpha, Codenamed 'Namoroka'
Firefox 3.6 is scheduled for release as a stable version in November 2009, so this release is just a preview, the starting point for development of Firefox 3.6.
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