Author Archives: Bill Toulas

About Bill Toulas

Contact: billytoulas (at) gmail (dot) com

Reach for the open skies: An interview with Curtis Olson

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in interviews

icons-fg-200

FlightGear is one of the most amazing and most important open source projects in existence. With a huge community around it, and a group of talented aviation lovers to develop it, FlightGear is the greatest and most open way to … Continue reading

The Prison needs an Architect!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

Prison-Architect-thumb

I have played Prison Tycoon 3 and 4 in the past and I can say one thing: extra boring! I found myself doing completely the same things again and again, dealing with exactly the same or similar problems. Prisoners didn’t like … Continue reading

Cinnarch – Where Arch meets Cinnamon

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Arch Linux, Linux distributions

Cinnarch-2012-10-01-Has-Cinnamon-1-6-1-h2

Arch Linux is now one of the most popular Linux distributions out there and that is for a good reason. It is the distribution with the largest number of available packages, the most recent/up-to-date packages, the rolling release nature, one … Continue reading

Compete in Rigs of Rods Multiplayer!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

71076_61313230319_5877285_n

Rigs of Rods is one of the most amazing open source simulation projects that we reviewed a while ago. It is distinguished for its vehicle plethora and the realism of the vehicles body movement and damage.

Dreamlinux is no more :(

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Linux distributions

Dreamlinux-logo

Dreamlinux has been added to the sad list of the dead distributions today. The Brazilian distribution had released version 1.0 in 2006 and version 5.0 that was released this January was apparently the last one to exist.

Watch worldwide cyber-attacks live with HoneyMap!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in opensource

garland_logo

Have you ever wondered how many cyber-attacks happen every second worldwide? Apparently they are a lot more than you would probably imagine and you can now watch them live as they happen thanks to the Honeynet Project!

Is Linux market growth stagnated (at least)?

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Linux distributions

Slight Drop In Sales

No matter how hard I’ll try, I will never be able to determine what is the real number of Linux users, and share it with you. This article is not about market shares directly, nor about judging or analyzing the … Continue reading

Realistic FPS Receiver is coming to Linux!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

791410357702187039

As one of Wolfire games developer/designer admitted today in the IRC, Receiver is about to come to Linux soon! The game uses the Unity game engine that debuted in Linux through Rochard and it seems that more and more games … Continue reading

Clementine 1.1 RC1 is available!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Software

Clementine-Logo

The Amarok 1.4-inspired Clementine music player, is about to release a new exciting version – the first major one after the stable 1.0 that is aiming to enrich the user experience even more! The first RC has been released today, so … Continue reading

Interview with XFCE’s Nick Schermer

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in interviews

IMG_1980

After the release of Unity and Gnome Shell, XFCE gained more popularity, fans and support for being the reliable “traditional” desktop environment. Fast, modern, mature, light and beautiful, XFCE is naturally becoming the default DE on big distributions like Debian.