In the last article, we have reviewed three excellent First Person Shooters (FPS) - OpenArena, Sauerbraten and Nexuiz - which offer you a good mix of solid graphics, fast-paced action and cross-platform compatibility, while being simple to use and configure, free, stable, and low on hardware demands. OpenArena and Sauerbraten allow you to test your fingertip skills against a range of monsters in both the single and multiplayer mode, whereas Nexuiz is geared toward online, multiplayer gaming only. Regardless which one you choose, you are in for some great fun, killing nefarious fiends from another dimension.
With its rock-bottom prices, CompUSA could be positioned to be the king of cheap Linux-based PC sales, if they take this to the next level, which would be to preload the OS on its bargain PC refurbs and get some value-added SystemMAX OEM whiteboxes out there with Linux pre-installed. CompUSA.com-branded $400 or less Quad Core PCs sans-monitor with 4GB RAM and 500GB hard disks running on Ubuntu? I can see it.
The Linux Foundation is set to release a report on Wednesday estimating that the Linux ecosystem is now worth $25 billion.
On the other hand, "I think the more important news for Linux is that Wikipedia uses Linux!" yagu said. "While most people don't really care, it's something worth bragging about occasionally."
Most people assume "Microsoft runs the world," yagu added, but many "would be surprised (and maybe even amazed) if they knew how much of their world is run on Unix. It's worth noting that for really hard, really big and really important uses, Linux is well-represented."
For Ubuntu, meanwhile, "this is a great accomplishment, as it's emerged as a favorite distribution," he said. "Ubuntu demonstrates Linux can be easy to use and functional."
The $175 Linux-based system has a Webcam built in, as well as a range of applications, including Web browsing, e-mail and IM.
The NLG is a PCMCIA card with an embedded Linux operating system. It slots into a notebook and provides a range of features to help IT departments remotely secure, monitor, manage and locate mobile computers over 3G and protect the data if the device is lost or stolen.
I have an older Dell Inspiron 6000 that I recently decided to go true-blue dual boot with Ubuntu v8.04 and Windows XP Professional SP3.
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Ubuntu happily churns along with the older processor and 1GB of RAM, so unless I have some major hardware failure with the Inspiron I’ll just go right on using it dual-boot style.
And when (yes, when - not if) the time comes that XP gets so old that it’s unusable in modern computing, I can just format the drive and run Ubuntu full time on it.
Believe me when I say it’s nice knowing that.
So I have been wondering for some time "Is KDE 4 ready for me to use full-time?". That coupled with me being totally institutionalised by my KDE 3.5 desktop has meant that I just haven't made the switch. The truth is, KDE 4.1 rocks pretty damn hard. My mission at Linux Expo Live this week is to try a convert as many people as I can into KDE 4.1 users. The approach is not to convince people the KDE 4 is ready for them. It's subtler than that; it is to convince them that they are ready for KDE 4.
Here is where things hit a snag. Jeff has registered the label’s songs under the Creative Commons License, which is only available to see while the site is on-line. The host insists it requires the US Copyright Office forms from back in the daze where things were done by monks chained to desks.
If that wasn’t enough, Jeff has also had his main storage drive crash on him and lost most of the material he had, which means all his website material is gone. He’s addressing the fans to send him whatever artwork and songs they have so he can rebuild from scratch.
As unemployment looks set to soar in the months ahead, quangocrat and soon to be outgoing head of Ofcom Lord David Currie appears to have discovered a cunning plan to find jobs for tens of thousands. The time for regulating the internet is nigh – and Ofcom could be the body to do it.
Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance.
Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form of identification at the point of purchase. Privacy campaigners fear it marks the latest government move to create a surveillance society.
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2008-10-21 08:51:45
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