Author Archives: Bill Toulas

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Meet Martin Husemann and NetBSD | Interview

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in interviews

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BSD systems are the technological neighbors many of us meet daily, but few know much about. Martin Husemann of NetBSD explains, analyses, compares and refers to everything there is to know about BSD and NetBSD. Meet this fantastic operating system … Continue reading

Wine 1.5.5 released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News, Software

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Wine is a free and open source application that allows users to run Windows software on other operating systems. Wine is always under heavy development with the team preparing one release every 2 weeks. Yesterday, the founder and current leader … Continue reading

Harvest: Massive Encounter | Friday Game

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

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Harvest is an award winning strategy game by the Indie games developer Oxeye studios. The game was initially released in 2008 but a port to the Linux platform was made available a few weeks ago. Harvest never got the attention … Continue reading

Mictlan | Gnome Shell – Cinnamon Theme

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in eyecandy

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Mictlan is one of the most elegant and carefully designed Gnome-Shell themes and Gtk 3 themes I’ve ever seen. It reminds me of the elegance that you get from the Enlightenment desktop environment, as well as the same persistence to … Continue reading

Fire up your creativity with the latest Dream Studio release!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Linux distributions

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Rock musician and software developer Dick MacInnis, announced a few days ago the availability of the new Dream Studio release which is based on Ubuntu 12.04.

Nmap reaches version 6

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Nmap, the widely used free and opensource utility for network discovering and security auditing, has released version 6.00 today bringing major improvements in all sectors.

Rob Weir explains the OpenOffice resurrection | Interview

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Last week, we had the first OpenOffice release, since the project was donated to the Apache foundation. This raised a lot of questions and many users wondered what is the point, or what is the difference with the Libre “brother”? … Continue reading

Lilly Looking Through | Friday Game

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

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While I was downloading the point n click adventure game called Lilly Looking Through, I checked the people behind this independent project and saw a guy who worked for the Myst series, an animator and a music composer.

0 A.D. Alpha 10 Jhelum has been released

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

0 A.D., the free and open-source ancient warfare real time strategy game, has just released it’s tenth Alpha which comes with many new features and material.

Chakra Linux 2012.05 "Archimedes"

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

Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.05 was released yesterday featuring KDE 4.8.3, GCC 4.7, glibc 2.15, QT 4.8.1, Linux kernel 3.2.8 and the latest Nvidia and Catalyst drivers. For those of you who don’t know why Chakra is considered one of the hottest … Continue reading