Speed Dreams is an open source motorsport simulator. It was forked in late 2008 from the famous open racing car simulator TORCS, in order to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponent.
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Gifts for Gamers: Some End-of-Year Recommendations, Part 2
More games for Linux and open source - a large choice for every taste. Strategy, chess, and more.To be continued..
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18 Must Have Google Chrome Extensions
Google and its applications are fast becoming the backbone of the internet. They seem to be solving everyone’s problems with free stuffs. Just when you get happy with something like Firefox, Google comes along and makes a browser that’s fast, super secure and has all kinds of add-ons and themes to personalize it.
Read more »Mandriva 2010 thoughts
Mandriva, previously known as Mandrake, was always an interesting mainline GNU/Linux distribution to use, providing some superb server or desktop software. As far as quality is concerned, nothing much has changed since the Nineties, but as far as sophistication of the desktop is concerned, things have come a long way from those dark days.
Read more »How To Run Android on Your Home PC with Virtualbox
Google’s Android OS has been making consistent progress in the smartphone world. If you’re anything like me, you may have been curious about this mobile OS but not willing to spend much on a phone. Fortunately, the LiveAndroid project on Google Code provides a bootable LiveCD image that can be run on your home computer.
Read more »Run Linux Apps On Your Windows Machine the Easy Way
You might be interested in trying out Linux applications, but the idea of creating a dual boot system, using slow Live CDs, or setting up a VM doesn’t appeal to you. Today we take a look at andLinux which allows you to run Linux applications on your Windows computer.
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Most Popular Gadget Posts of 2009
After highlighting some our most popular tips and tricks of the year, it is time to show to you some of our best articles about gadgets.
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Best of 2009
The new year is almost upon us, so it's a good time to wrap up the year 2009 and ruminate over the best open source software and hardware this year brought us. So without further ado, let me present my personal "Best of 2009" list in no particular order.
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Best Linux releases of 2009
The year ended with a flood of new Linux releases. Here are some of the best. Karmic also included by default Ubuntu One, Canonical's file synchronising and collaborating software. It is very similar to the Dropbox service which allows users to automatically synchronise desktop files with an online service as they work.
Read more »10+ free, fast-booting Linux distros that aren't Chrome OS
Sure, Chrome OS has been all over the headlines since early December. But it might not run on your hardware and you're going to have to wait at least a year for the final version. Why bother waiting?
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Android apps: Six of the best
Google's Android market is bursting with great applications. We look at some of the best for your phone.
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Internet Acceleration Appliance - Speeding up the Internet
Here is an interesting project, a preseed Debian caching proxy server and network analyzer, the Internet Acceleration Appliance.
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Still Livin' La Vida Linux
It's been over a year since I wrote about my conversion to a Linux based digital media environment, and since it's the holiday season (or just after) I thought it was time to update the story, and describe some new Linux based devices I'm using that others might find useful.
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GNOME needs to get its act together
As the year ends, it is fair to say there have been many free and open source software organisations that have made rapid strides, not merely in 2009 but right through the noughties. But one organisation badly needs to get its act together.
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Getting Started with Arch Linux
As a Linux distro addict, I’ve heard of Arch many times over the years but for some reason, I’d never actually given it a shot. In particular, one aspect that’s always interested me has been Arch’s homegrown package management system, pacman. Today we’ll be finding out what Arch is all about.
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