The scary Penumbra game trilogy, has just recently been ported natively to GNU-Linux by the manufacturer, Frictional Games. The Penumbra games are first person survival horror and physics puzzle games which challenge the player to survive in a mine in Greenland which has been taken over by a monstrous thing.
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Why FreeBSD 8 Won't Rewrite the Book
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A major release of an operating system typically brings significant changes that require users to learn new skills. But backers of the open source FreeBSD 8 operating system say that's not necessarily going to be the case with its next major version.
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What I Like About Firefox
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There are camps of people who use different browsers and have long-winded, heated arguments over which one is best. If a tool can make my life simpler, more efficient, and fun, I’m more likely to use it. Firefox 3 fits the bill
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Text Mode Linux Applications
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During the first year of blogging for Lightweight Linux, I have written about many useful text mode applications. Here is a short overview of the applications I have written about.
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Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Ubuntu 9.04)
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This guide shows how to install and configure Smokeping on Ubuntu 9.04 to monitor network latency. SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection.
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Boxee Social Media Center in Ubuntu
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Boxee is a much hyped Media Center application, which has many social networking features as well. When i decided to give it a try, i was not expecting anything dramatic as such, being an alpha release. But i have to admit, Boxee Alpha is so damn good.
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Ubuntu 9.10 Preview: Kernel Mode Setting
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Kernel mode setting will be enabled by default for Intel-based video cards on Ubuntu 9.10, set to be released in October. I recently played around with this new feature on a Karmic Koala live CD, and share my results below.
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A lightweight heavyweight
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If I had to name the open source projects with the largest development teams, Gnome and KDE would probably come to mind. After that I read on the LXDE devlopment blog that they rank quite high in the list of active projects on Ohloh.
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Four Open Source Mind Mapping Apps to Keep You Focused
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Mind mapping tools are among the unsung heroes of project management. They're often overlooked or underused because some people mistakenly believe the learning curve is too steep or the features are unnecessary.
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Banshee by default – outlook looks hazy
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So. Banshee as a default media player for Karmic, replacing Rhythmbox. You’ve read the analysis on the Internest, you’ve read ill-informed tripe from pretend-journalists, and you’re running in fear of a switch to a “worse” player. Well, it’s time to lay down a little dose of reality for all you naysayers.
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Getting things done with Linux to-do list programs
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To-do list programs can help you stay organized and boost productivity. Ars looks at GTG, KOrganizer, and other task management tools for the Linux desktop.
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Madeam PHP MVC Framework Interview
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Interview with the creator of Madeam PHP MVC Framework. Madeam is a PHP5 web framework for small agile teams and freelancers.
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Amarok 2.1 Review
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With the tagline “Let there be light” the all new Amarok 2.1 release seems to be another step closer to make the popular music player the world’s best.
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0 A.D. Now Open Source
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0 A.D. is a free, cross-platform, under-development, 3D, historically-based, real-time strategy game. It has been in production of some form for nearly 8 years, has 150k lines of code in the engine, and hundreds of dedicated (and now shared) models. And now it is open source.
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Kongoni Nietzsche released
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"It is my pleasure to announce that Kongoni version 1.12.2 codenamed Nietzsche has been officially released. This marks the first official and stable release of the Kongoni GNU/Linux distribution after several development releases. Kongoni is a fully free African GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware with significant inspiration from the BSD-Unix architectures.
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