Author Archives: Bill Toulas

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CentOS 6.3 has been released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Linux distributions

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CentOS is an 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat’s redistribution requirements. CentOS is for people who need an enterprise class operating system stability without the cost of certification and support.

Enlightenment distributions that are still alive!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Linux distributions

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Following up yesterday’s article about how Enlightenment is soon to be released, we will check out what Linux distributions you should choose to enjoy this magnificent window manager + set of libraries.

Enlightenment 17 is soon to be released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News

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The founder and leader of Enlightenment window manager and set of libraries, announced a few days ago that the next release will be the last one before they will finally release the long awaited version 17!

Puzzle Moppet | Friday Game

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

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It’s been some time since we featured a puzzle “Friday Game” so I decided to present to you Puzzle Moppet this week. This game was “opened” recently and is now available free of price due to the lack of sales and … Continue reading

Linux Gamers are fewer than too few

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

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Reading the articles about Blizzard banning Linux users for using wine and not giving a refund made me think that the main problem once again, is the number of users using wine to play Diablo III. If the percentage was … Continue reading

Dru Lavigne talks about FreeBSD | Interview

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in interviews

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After the positive feedback that we got for our interview with Martin Hussemann of NetBSD, we decided to reach out and meet people from all the major BSD projects this summer. We continue on that context with Dru Lavigne of … Continue reading

Urban Terror | Friday Game

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

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Urban Terror is a free multiplayer-only first person shooter based on Quake III Arena. The game is not open-source but it is free to play and maybe the best of its kind available for the Linux platform. Urban Terror has … Continue reading

Tomahawk 0.5 has been released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News, Software

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Great news for everyone that uses the most promising music player available for the Linux platform, as the Tomahawk developers announced a few days ago the availability of version 0.5 + a small bugfix 0.5.1 release.

The Journey Down: Chapter One | Friday Game

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

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From time to time, there are magnificent games that hit the Desura store and no one seems to care much (at least not as much as people care when Ubuntu’s software center is enriched with an already available flash game … Continue reading

And then you find just the right thing – Qtractor

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Software

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Qtractor is a free and open-source Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application that targets at the GNU/Linux platform, as it uses JACK and ALSA as main infrastructures.