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Today (February 24th) Quake Live -- a new game from id Software, that plays entirely in a web browser -- was released as an "Open Beta." Great! Right? The bad news, not yet available for GNU/Linux.

The Linux Cookbook is your guide to getting the most out of Linux. Organized by general task (such as working with text, managing files, and manipulating graphics), each section contains a series of step-by-step recipes that help you to get your work done quickly and efficiently, most often from the command line. Perfect as an introduction to Linux, or as a desktop reference for the seasoned user. Covers the major Linux distributions.

Hollywood movies often have a tech geek entering commands and doing amazing things. While it may not be that easy to hack into public transport systems or or control the world like Eagle Eye, the command line is certainly a geeks playground.

As Jim Zemlin, the executive director of The Linux Foundation, points out, "I am not joking or trying to be trite, but the answer to this question is: every single person in the modern world every day. Everyone who searches Google, picks up a phone and uses telecommunication infrastructure, watches a new televisions, use a new camera, makes a call on many modern cell phones, trades a stock on a major exchange, watches a weather forecast generated on a supercomputer, logs into Facebook, navigates via air traffic control systems, buys a netbook computer, checks out at a cash register, withdraws cash at an ATM machine, fires up a quick-boot desktop (even those with Windows), or uses one of many medical devices; the list goes on and on."

The Wine development release 1.1.14 is now available. What's new in this release: Various bug fixes for Internet Explorer 7. Many crypt32 improvements, including new export wizard. Better support for windowless Richedit. Improvements to the print dialog. Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows. Various bug fixes.

Proprietary software, we all know it, almost all of us have once used it. Video games are software, and the majority of all games on the market are still proprietary. When a free game uses a popular GNU/Linux distribution logo, therefore, trademark, to describe something; most GNU/Linux distribution vendors let it slide. But the same treatment shouldn't be given to the proprietary video game software vendors. The free-- though closed source-- video game 'Combat Arms' for the Windows operating system may be committing copyright and/or trademark infringement.

InaTux has just stated "... for reasons to be announced, we are currently in the process of complying to any GNU "linking guidelines". All references to "Linux" in terms of a F/OSS operating system as a whole, are now going to be called "GNU/Linux" as this is more appropriate."

Mozilla has donated $100,000 to help fund a collaborative initiative with the Wikimedia Foundation to improve open standards-based technology for video on the web.

I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else.

Linux is great. It's a free, open-source operating system (OS) based on work done by Linus Torvalds in the early '90s. Again, it's free, powerful and easy to ... Oh wait, it's a pain to use.

"Buying a ready to ship Linux machine" ... "Shipped with the Linux distribution & additional programs of your choice pre-installed. That can also be shipped customized to be a web server or personal computer." Sounds pretty good.

Back in 2002, Jim Allchin was co-president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division and was, in his own words, "scared" of the momentum behind Linux, as noted in an email [PDF] sent to several of his direct reports.

Okay, first off; you can find other articles out there that state what's new in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2(Shiretoko), including mozilla.org. But we found only few of them stating some of the little things that we do in this following article.

Alright, so we here at InaTux had the time this week to play around with the newest KDE Desktop Environment (version 4.2 *release candidate*) we have to say-- and we might get some criticism for this but-- we think that lately the KDE team version by version have been taking large steps in the wrong direction. They have been doing a good job at making a Desktop Environment that feels almost invisible, but the general design of the Environment itself seems a little too much like a Vista (i.e. Widgets) and Mac (i.e. the theme) clone and this isn't what GNU/Linux was originally designed to be.