Author Archives: M. Zinoune

Burg-manager 1.1.0 is released!

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Software

Burg-manager 1.1.0 is released, this a bug fix release that comes with these 2 changes : Fixed script to add menuentry relative to iso to boot to 50_iso file,  added separated burg installer script.

Steel Storm Episode I- An awesome old school top down arcade shooter game for Linux

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

Steel Storm is an old school top down arcade shooter with score oriented competitive gameplay, and is designed for people who like fast paced action and have limited amounts of time to play computer games. The events of the game … Continue reading

Urban Terror: Hollywood tactical shooter

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

Urban Terror™ is a free multiplayer first person shooter developed by FrozenSand, that (thanks to the ioquake3-code) does not require Quake III Arena anymore. It is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. The current version is 4.1 Urban Terror is … Continue reading

Top 10 Unixmen posts in 2010

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in News

Top 10 Unixmen posts in 2010: 1-Top things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat The final release of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat will be out this week,  after you install or upgrade to this new release you will need … Continue reading

Howto Turn your old webcam into a motion-detecting security camera in Linux

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux tutorials

If you have an old cam that you are not using, you can use it as a security cam. Control Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if … Continue reading

Xonotic 0.1 Preview Released! A Nexuiz fork | Games

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

Xonotic preview 0.1 is released, this release is still a preview, which means that is not a stable release yet, in this release many things have progressed, both in features and graphics, one of the things that makes the game … Continue reading

"Those Funny Funguloids!"- A nice and funny opensource game for Linux

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

“Those Funny Funguloids!” is actually a nice little piece of entertainment. You collect mushrooms, bring them back to your home base and profit! That’s the basic idea in a nutshell. It has smooth, appealing 3d graphics and nice atmospheric sound … Continue reading

VirtualBox 4.0 is released ! New PPA for Ubuntu and Debian

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Software

Again another release from Oracle before the end of the year, this time is VirtualBox 4.0 who has been released . This new version features an improved user interface, as well as added virtual hardware support, including for chip-sets supporting … Continue reading

Warsow 0.6 comes with many improvements- new weapon models, new maps, Capture the Flag and more

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

After 16 months of developement, finally Warsow 0.6 has been released, this major release comes with many improvements,  plenty of new maps and most of the old maps restyled and redesigned for improved visuals,  All weapon models have been retextured … Continue reading

Alien Arena 2011 version 7.50 has been released! Installation instructions for Ubuntu & LinuxMint

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

Alien Arena 2011 version 7.50 has been released, The latest version(7.50) of the open sourced, freeware deathmatch shooter comes with many new features like: Ragdoll physics using the Open Dynamics physics engine, Revamped in-game IRC client, GNU AutoTools for Linux/Unix/MacOS … Continue reading