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.

After more than 6 years of development, the OpenTTD developers have released version 1.0 of their open source Transport Tycoon Deluxe clone, adding a number of improvements on the original to the urban planning and simulation game

Originally released on the 28th of June 1994, FreeDOS is now 15 years old. FreeDOS is a free open source DOS clone. The current release, version 1.0, was released in early September of 2006 and is licensed under GPL.

The Novell-backed Moonlight project announced a beta of Moonlight 2.0, an open source Linux/Unix clone of Microsoft's Silverlight media framework. Moonlight 2.0 offers improved media streaming enabling media codecs like Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, and BBC Dirac, via a runtime for its sister project, .NET clone Mono.

The Open Information Systems for Emergency Services (Open ISES) Project recently released their latest version of an open source Computer Aided Dispatch program called Tickets. They have also begun work and released our first draft of Cards, an Emergency Medical Dispatch program.

Previously known as Wormux, WarMUX is a free, open-source clone of the popular game Worms, with completely new, free-licensed graphics and music/sounds, available for Linux, Windows and Mac. Starting with version 0.9.0, WarMUX introduced single player games versus AI too. The available game modes are single player (vs AI) and multiplayer on the online server, as well as hotseat games.

Six years after the project was launched, developers at the Xiph.Org Foundation have released a beta version of the free video codec called Ogg Theora. The source code of the libtheora 1.0 Beta 1 codec library can be downloaded from the developer website.

It’s a little known fact that the fimware on Linksys routers is open-source. In fact, the operating system on WRT54G’s version 4 and below is Linux. Some time ago, people took advantage of this and made their own replacement firmware images for their routers.

PatientOS is an open source (free) electronic medical record designed as a distributed system with open source components (PostgreSQL, JBoss, Hibernate, Swing, Mirth and more).

Version 0.75 integrates iReport, an open source report writer and JFreeChart, and open source graphing library. Form wizards and other enhancement round out this release.