Author Archives: Bill Toulas

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VLC player rocks, and Jean-Baptiste Kempf talks about it!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in interviews

VLC media player is one of the most well known and successful open source projects. From day one, VLC has “invaded” the multimedia world, providing the users of all platforms an easy, simple, free and libre way to playback all … Continue reading

Pulse Audio 2.0 is here!

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Pulse Audio is an advanced network sound server. To put it simply, Pulse Audio is a background process designed to accept sound input from a source, and redirect it to devices like sound cards, or other processes.

Rigs Of Rods | Friday Game

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

It’s a plane…It’s a boat…It’s a truck…It’s Rigs of Rods! Rigs of Rods is one of the best open source simulation projects in existence, with thousands of fans and contributors around the world. The project started as a truck simulator, … Continue reading

Best distributions for off-line use

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Internet is the the “Alpha and Omega” of our daily experience with computers, dominating, enriching and engulfing everything we do. This is the case with almost everyone around the world, but somewhere out there, there are computers that are not … Continue reading

Apache OpenOffice 3.4 released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News, opensource, Software

After having to fight with strange corporate tides, controversial management strategies and finally the danger of completely dying, OpenOffice was “donated” to the Apache Software Foundation almost one year ago. Today we had the announcement of the first release of … Continue reading

OSHackers – Find a Linux lover near you!

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OSHackers is a website that aims to count GNU/Linux users and place them geographically using their Linux distribution as the marker. You can visit OSHackers and put yourself on the map, and you can search for people that use Linux … Continue reading

Interview with Salih Emin of Utappia

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Linux ecosystem consists of so many people doing a great job, and it is only natural for someone not to know everyone out there. Many worthy developers are unknown to the majority of users and sometimes their magnificent projects are … Continue reading

Play Football Games on Linux

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

With only a month away from Euro 2012, things are starting to get extra hot for football fans. While sports is the Linux gaming category with the biggest shortage, there are some fun projects that can offer amusement and fun … Continue reading

Gimp 2.8 is out! | PPA Ubuntu

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Gimp is one of the most important tools we Linux users have in our hands being a powerful application that covers the specialized needs of photo manipulators. It may not be perfect, or as good as other commercial applications, but … Continue reading

Interview with Clive Crous from Linux Game Publishing

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Linux Game Publishing is a software company specialized in porting games to the Linux platform. Since 2001, LGP has accomplished many great things on a field that very few people had the guts to explore and invest in. On this … Continue reading