Free Games for Linux
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A round-up of fun Linux diversions.  When people talk about computer gaming these days, they invariably mean commercial games running on a Windows platform. Few people realize that Linux can be more than just a very good Web or file server. Even fewer people are aware of the many open-source or otherwise freely available games available for Linux. read more
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Investor's Business Daily - IBM and Oracle -- two of Linux's biggest patrons -- have relished the effect the free software has had on Microsoft and other foes.
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This month I turn my attention back to Linux for newbies. Xandros Desktop and Lycoris Desktop/LX are two Linux distributions geared toward folks who aren&#39;t gearheads.
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As promised, the second part of this series presents still more commercially available music and sound software for Linux. Come see (and hear) what your money will buy...   read more
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By Stephen Foley  Dell, the world's No 2 computer maker, has begun selling laptops and personal computers pre-installed with Linux software - the free operating system that aims to challenge Microsoft's dominant Windows platform.
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A Win/Mac developer recently asked me what I thought about his plan to create a binary of his application and sell it to interested Linux sound and music people. He asked with some trepidation, having already received a rather critical chorus of objection from some overly enthusiastic Linux users. This man's work is excellent and his software already runs nicely under Wine.read more
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ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed.   This release adds support for 8 new games, including freeware Lure of the Temptress as well as I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream, Elvira 1 and 2, Waxworks and Sierra pre-AGI games. Also iPhone and Maemo ports are distributed officially. Many bugfixes, more non-English versions of the games are supported, and much much more.  For the complete list of changes, please check out the release notes at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=568141   This project can be downloaded at: http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php
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This week you'll learn about Ubuntu, a free, all-in-one operating system that includes an office suite, media tools, a Web browser, a graphics package, an e-mail client and more. Once installed, you're up and running right away. By Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Ivan Krstic, David Murphy, Jonathan Jesse, Peter Savage and Corey Burger. 0723
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New VMware Fusion for Mac lets Windows apps run on the Mac OS; free VMware Player 2 runs virtual appliances on Windows or Linux.
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Users of the Linux operating system have long lamented the absence of Adobe Photoshop on their platform. An application called Pixel fills in the gap nicely, and even stands up nicely to the free image-editing favorite, GIMP.
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The Wizpy multimedia media player lets you carry a complete Linux desktop in your pocket.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 15--The Idaho State Linux Users Group will host a Software Freedom Day celebration Saturday in Pocatello.
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To each his own, but I love eye candy.  When I heard that you could get the 3D Xgl and Compiz environment running on Ubuntu/Kubuntu dapper (my default distribution), I immediately searched the web for instructions.  Most of the instructions take a reasonably timid approach, which gets your 3D environment running in a test console (the second display, or :1).  I'm more adventurous, however, and I immediately went for a total replacement.  What follows are instructions for doing the same.
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Company goes head-to-head with MySQL and PostgreSQL with a free version of its ASE database for Linux.
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Freevo version 1.7.1 has been released. Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC. It uses MPlayer or Xine to play and record audio and video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.    In fact it does not need a TV capture card to be a useful tool, you can use it to view movies, listen to music, look at pictures, check the news and see a weather forecast are just some of the possibilities.  This release contains some new features and some significant bug fixes.  A native ALSA misxer has been added, a wide screen skin "Panorama" has been added, a TV recordings manager has been added and user defined commands can now be sent to the Xine player  The TV_RECORD_PADDING has been removed, use TV_RECORD_PADDING_PRE and TV_RECORD_PADDING_POST instead.  Download Freevo here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46652
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Home PC users will never choose Linux over Windows until it is adopted in the workplace. Whether Windows is a generic term and can be subject to copyright is all very interesting, as are some of the other
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New version of software for creating PDF files includes a beta version of free Adobe Reader 7 for Linux.