While most of the proprietary games get all the attention on Windows, on Linux it's the other way around. Of course, this is because we're stuck with only few choices for mainly any type of game, from arcade to shooters or strategies. But there are good, if not great, alternatives in Linux.
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Fact or Fiction? Top 8 Linux Myths Debunked
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If the idea of using Linux in your business is one that makes you nervous, chances are you've fallen prey to one or more of the many myths out there that are frequently disseminated by competing vendors such as Microsoft.
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Source code for Dell Streak unveiled
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Thanks to Android’s open-source agreements handsets are having their source codes released left and right. If you’re similar to me, I get quite excited that they released the source code, download the file, and realize… I have no idea what I am doing. Although I am still eager about what our developers will come up with to take advantage of this large screen.
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Man pages have been the primary source for UN*x documentation for a long time. Whenever I create a script that's going to be around for a while, I create documentation in the form of a section 1 man page. This stops my cell phone from ringing on the weekends when the junior sysadmins are looking for my notes.
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Mageia is the future of Mandriva
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Now a few weeks after my first article about Mandriva’s future things have even more moved in a negative direction. The new management has decided to close down Edge-IT, a company which was bought by Mandriva several years ago. Apparently lots of the employees working on the distribution, were in fact Edge-IT employees and so they now have to leave the sinking ship.
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Linux desktop market share: Small no matter how you measure
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It doesn't give me any pleasure in saying this, but the evidence is overwhelming that Linux is not huge on the desktop. Saying it has maybe 1% of the desktop marketshare is probably not realistic, but not as far off the mark as we'd like.
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Mozilla Asks, ‘Are We Fast Yet?'
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These charts show the performance of JavaScript engines across different architectures. The tests shown are the common SunSpider and V8 JavaScript benchmarks, with output measured in milliseconds. The tests are run once a day, and the graphs show the last five weeks or so of results.
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Banshee 1.7.5 Review in Ubuntu Maverick Beta
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Being actively developed, feature-rich, providing access to several useful Internet service and a pretty decent media library, Banshee has a pretty fair share of users, and it is definitely a powerful music player not be ignored.
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Magic Trackpad drivers land in Ubuntu Maverick and Upstream!
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I’ve been spending some time adding Magic Trackpad functionality to the current Magic Mouse driver in the kernel. I’m pleased to report that the changes have landed both in Ubuntu and upstream in Jiri Kosina’s HID tree as it awaits merging into Linus’ tree. It will be available in Ubuntu 10.10 and hopefully in Linux 2.6.37.
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Minitube 1.2 Beta Released, Adds Video Downloads, Gnome Multimedia Keys Support
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Minitube is an application for watching YouTube without Flash. Minitube 1.2 beta was just released, bringing a much requested feature: Gnome multimedia keys support as well as YouTube video downloads.
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More Eyecandy On Its Way For Ubuntu 10.10 Installer Slideshow
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Ubuntu 10.10 Installer is going through massive changes. Canonical is leaving no stones unturned and now even the installer slideshow is getting fair amount of attention. Installer slideshow was introduced during the Ubuntu Lucid release and Canonical aims to bring more polish and simplicity to the slideshow feature.
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Something is Drupally in the State of Denmark
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Now that I am fully recovered from jet lag, I am able to reflect on how enjoyable the recent Copenhagen DrupalCon was.
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Best 3D Graphics Software for Linux
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3D computer graphics software refers to programs used to create 3D computer-generated imagery. This article only covers some of the software used.
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Linux backlight control
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Backlight control is one of those things that you'd think would be simple, but ha ha this is computing so of course it's an utter disaster and everything is a huge mess.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Mandriva 2010.1 Spring server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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