"Finding information about how to develop and publish games for Linux is difficult. There aren’t many articles or tutorials written about it, and there is no centralized web site you can go to find all the answers."
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Free and Priceless: Windows XP vs Linux Mint
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Today we are going to take a look at installing, and running, both Windows XP and Linux Mint on a Dell Inspiron 6400. Why crusty old XP and not the sparkling new Windows Vista? For the unspectacular reason that it's what I have. You see, I purchased the computer about a year ago and Vista had not shook the world yet.
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Review: Xandros Linux 4.0 Professional
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"Xandros is a distribution of Linux descended from Debian and built on the Debian framework. Unlike Debian though, Xandros is built more with a profiteering mindset, a philosophy that has slowly alienated it from the Linux community, more so lately after their announced affiliation with Microsoft."
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Bandit Project's Cross-Platform Card Selector Gives Users Control of their Internet Identities
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The Bandit® Project today hit another key milestone in the development of open source identity services with the availability of an open source, cross-platform information card selector that helps users manage “digital identity cards” used in Web transactions.
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Mini Review of a Tiny PCLOS
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TinyMe is a scaled down version of PCLinuxOS 2007. The latest version is delivered as a 177 MB liveCD and features the Lightweight X11 Desktop Enviroment, Synaptic, and the PCLinuxOS Control Center. It comes with a few applications, so it could be a really light version of PCLOS for older computers or a foundation on which to build your own system as you choose.
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A Useful Hack for Storing Text or Editable Pictures You Need to Reuse, in OpenOffice Impress Presentations
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My friend Ben Horst wrote to me with a question about how to store editable content in a presentation that you reuse periodically. Like a few buttons formatted a particular way, text boxes, anything that can't easily be drawn and formatted and has to look a certain way.
My answer was, well, kind of a hack, but I think it's useful enough to point out.
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Linux Gamers Live DVD 0.9.2
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Being an avid gamer who loves Linux, I felt that it would be a good idea to go try out the new Linux-Gamers.net live dvd. This is a live dvd built on Arch Linux and designed with one purpose in mind. Gaming. No desktop apps, no office suites, no web browsers. Nope, nothing but gaming.
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Fedora 7.0 Linux distribution
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Fedora 7.0 is the latest community-based Linux release from Red Hat. Fedora and Novell's OpenSuse are Ubuntu Linux's two chief "competitors". All three Linux distros are free downloads; all have vibrant online communities where you can go for tips, troubleshooting and advice.
Read more »Why Is It Called Iceweasel Again?
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I thought it was stupid that it had to be called IceWeasel and before even looking into it I assumed that someone from either Debian or Mozilla was being a control freak or stubborn about something. I would come to find out I was right and wrong at the same time which was new for me, since I am used to just being wrong most of the time.
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(pdf) Domain Names monetization lawsuit launched over Google...
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Google sued over parked domain ads. Occult practices bound to typosquatting, domain tasting, domain parking or more generally to the Domain Name monetization seem directly aimed
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Scientific Linux project releases v4.5 install CD
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The Scientific Linux project last week announced the release of Scientific Linux 4.5, an install-only distribution rebuilt from source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. It features a 2.6.18 kernel, GNOME default desktop, multilingual support, and Xen paravirtual guest capabilities.
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Slackware Linux 12.0 goes gold
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The Slackware Linux team this week released stable v12.0 of its Linux distribution. Slackware Linux v12.0 boasts a 2.6.21.5 kernel, a KDE 4.5.6 default desktop environment, the latest modular X11 Window System, and numerous other advanced features.
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FlightLinux blasts off again
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Patrick Stakem wants everyone to know that the newest iteration of FlightLinux is not just for NASA rocket scientists. The special hardened distribution that earlier this century orbited the Earth on an unmanned satellite is set to move into active duty again, this time as a civilian project.
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Make Firefox Use Multiple Rows of Tabs
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If you are a Firefox power user like I am, then you probably have dozens of tabs open all the time. After trying a number of different options, I've finally settled on using multiple rows of tabs as the best option.
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Enlighten your desktop with Elive
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Unless you're an old Linux user, you've only probably used the KDE, GNOME or Xfce desktop environments. But since the time when these desktops were in their infancy, the Enlightenment desktop environment has been impressing users. Bringing this mature, visually appealing environment to new Linux users is what the Elive distribution is all about.
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