Today I announce to you the transfer of PlayOnLinux to a new server. We have taken this opportunity to give the website a little makeover. What's new: A brand new front page, all made up and pretty. A complete, rewritten documentation. The forum has undergone some changes as well, with a search feature.
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Botnet based on home network routers
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DroneBL a distributed DNS Blacklist service, says in a recent blog post that a botnet named Psybot gained control of approximately one hundred thousand routers and that it became a victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that was carried out by this botnet
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First-Person Shooter Games for Linux III: Urban Terror
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This article is part of the first-person shooter games reviews I'm putting up. Until now I talked about Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, ioQuake3, UT2004, Nexuiz and OpenArena. I will dedicate this edition entirely to Urban Terror, a great first-person shooter game which was initially developed as a Quake 3 mod and evolved into a powerful and fast standalone game.
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Review - OpenSUSE 11.1
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I decided to install OpenSUSE this weekend onto my new Maxtor 4 USB hard drive. I've used the live CD before with KDE 4.1, but didn't like not having the option to have different backgrounds on the multiple desktops. Supposedly, this option and others will be available in KDE 4.2. So, instead of waiting, I decided to install KDE 3.5.10. Here's how it went.....
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My Gimp Tutorial and Resource Linklist
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Gimp just seems to be a buzz topic lately. Since I have searches pouring into my site to find the five or six little Gimp tutorials I have, here is a whole list of resources from my personal bookmark list, covering everything from beginners to intermediate to expert advice:
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What You Should Expect from Ubuntu 9.04
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It's no surprise though, as Canonical renewed most artwork elements for the upcoming Jaunty Jackalope in that small interval. But new artwork is not even close to everything Ubuntu 9.04 will have to offer.
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New IM Client For Linux: Synapse (Ubuntu, openSUSE installation insturctions)
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Synapse is a new Instant Messenger for Linux users, currently in alfa version. It only supports protocols like Jabber, Google Talk, XMPP and Twitter for now and its design is very modern and looks great, and seamlessly integrates with Growl notifications, which arrived with the first alpha of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.....
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Distro Review: Debian Lenny
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Ok it’s time for another distro review and I’m a bit overdue with this one but I’m a big fan of Debian and when I reviewed Etch (4.0) last year I declared that if I were to finally grow up and settle down with just one distro this would be the one.
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X Window Managers Part 1
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The implementation of the X suite allows for the creation of a wide variety of graphical window managers. Although there is a great website that documents the wide array of window managers both large and small called xwinman lets take a look at window managers roughly in order of appearance.
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Battle For Wesnoth Gets New Campaign, Graphics
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For those interested in turn-based strategy games, Battle For Wesnoth 1.6 is now available on Linux and other supported platforms. This major update to Battle For Wesnoth brings a new campaign (called The Legend of Wesmere), many multi-player improvements, improved game graphics, new terrain types, user-interface improvements, and an improved map editor.
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20 Great Linux / Unix Terminal Commands (Command-line)
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1. Brag about how much free RAM you have on Linux:
free
2. Where is that application I just installed (all directories)
whereis [app]
3. Disk space usage
df -h
4. To make a playlist of the audio files in a folder
ls -R > playlist.m3u
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100 tips to help you work smarter with Firefox
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The beauty of using Firefox is the control that it extends to users, and there are almost limitless ways that it can be tweaked. Here are our 100 favourite tips, tweaks and add-ons to get the most from your favourite browser.
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Mind mapping application for Linux
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Xmind is an Eclipse based application, which can run on any platform. So, yeah, not just Linux, but - stumbling on their website - I was pretty much surprised to find out that a .deb download option has been care taken of.
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Free Online Book On Blender: Solid 3D Rendering/Animation Lessons
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One of the great things about open source platforms and applications is that skilled authors often put free books online as guides.
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Gaming in Linux
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Currently, Linux might not have as many games as Windows probably has but fact that Linux has a strong community of developers in its periphery shows a better future.
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