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There are Linux games for every taste: first person shooters, board and arcade games, strategy games. But if you prefer to train your intellectual skills instead of blasting monsters or conquering the world, there are a few high-quality puzzle games, too. In this article we will take a look at some of the best puzzle games for Linux.

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Beta Released and available for download.The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 9.04 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features.

In response to my article: 10+1 things to tell your boss why you should migrate to Linux An Article was written by Mike Dailey Titled: Think before you speak migrating the enterprise to linux criticism While I welcome the criticism, I think it's to bad the author has taken it upon himself to try to take down all arguments. This pushed him to the point where he had to come up with arguments which can't be taken completely serious. This harms him, as I've even seen the term FUD been coined up against him. While I don't think he is really against Linux adoption, I do think he went trough a little to much effort to make his statement. I think according to his conclusions I'll have to clarify some points in response.

A little something to make you laugh... just in case you're leaning toward crying right now ;)

Imagine how much time you could save if you had a tool that could help you to avoid typing static text like "Kind regards" or your address. Like the idea? Then you'll most certainly appreciate the Autokey text expanding utility.

Parsix is a beautiful OS which is derived off of Kanotix and based off of Debian. The install was quite simple and intuitive, though not as simple as Ubuntu based distributions. What grabbed my attention immediately was the beautiful artwork that was part of the default LiveCD and the Install. Also, the install came with a lot of nice apps that are quite useful, though Parsix was not bloated like some other distributions tend to be.

An article that describes how you can play ASF stream under linux (Fedora 10) and what the results where under the following media players: Totem, VLC, Xine and mplayer. The results are surprising (in a negative way).

Last time I did Screen Shots of ZenWalk, was the 5.2 beta release. Now, not much has change since the 5.2 release as far as the UI is concerned. But other changes have been made... One thing I noticed immediately, was that the installer was simpler and faster.

Multiple open source companies are pumping the same message into The VAR Guy’s email inbox. From Compiere to Pentaho, small open source application providers are calling on VARs to deploy business software in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Here’s the scoop.

A number of senior kernel developers, including Linus Torvalds, Ted Ts'o, Alan Cox and Ingo Molnar, have been squabbling over the sense or otherwise of journaling and delayed allocation in Ext3 and Ext4. The trigger for the discussion was a response from Jesper Krogh to Torvalds' announcement of kernel version 2.6.29, in which he described massive delays in writing out the file system cache on Ext3 file systems despite fast RAID arrays on computers with lots of RAM.

The Beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty Jackalope) was uploaded a few minutes ago on the official mirrors. As usual, we've downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up to date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 9.04 development.

There are many technical explanations of Open Source licensing but this introduction looks to provide an insight into how Open Source works and how to be a positive influence on the community. Most explanation of Open Source discuss licensing and the technicalities of Closed vs Open Source. This article explains why people create Open Source projects, looks at the initial need and how that becomes an idea, then a solution and evolves into a community. It explains how everyone can participate in Open Source even if you don't know how to code. It explains the business advantages in a manner than even your CFO could understand!

OpenGeeeU Luna Serena (8.10), the special OpenGEU version dedicated to the EeePC, is available for download now. OpenGeeeU 8.10 has been built over EasyPeasy 8.10, so it is optimized for your netbook & it includes all of the drivers & fixes needed for your Asus Eee PC to work well out of the box.

I'm more than a little excited about Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 netbook, the price of which has dropped to $249 for the basic Ubuntu Linux/512 MB RAM/8 GB solid-state drive model. I had the pleasure of trying this very-small but quite usable netbook at the San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group booth at the recent SCALE 7x show, and I was quite impressed with it.

Expanding its Ubuntu training series, Canonical is planning to make an Ubuntu Server training course available later this year. In a blog posting Canonical, the financial backer of Ubuntu Linux, said that the new course is being designed in response to requests from both students and partners.

There are quite a variety of tracing options for Linux, with SystemTap being the most prominent, but that particular solution has yet to become easily usable, at least partly due to its many dependencies on user-space configuration and tools. Another choice, which originally came from work on realtime Linux, is ftrace. Ftrace is a self-contained solution, requiring no user-space tools or support, that is useful for tracking down problems—not only in the kernel, but in its interactions with user space as well.

Development of those new technologies on a commodity platform like Linux allows startup companies to enter the market with less capital and compete more effectively with their larger counterparts. In addition, using free open source applications and technologies encourages innovation and creation of new products for technology-hungry buyers. For smaller companies and startups, maintaining a high level of frugality is necessary for survival in any market environment. Linux won't directly save individual consumers a bundle of cash, but they will find financial solace in Linux-based services whether they know the services are Linux-based or not.

Python programming is all the rage because it is clean, easy to learn, and powerful. It supports creating both command-line and graphical applications, and has at least four good toolkits for writing graphical applications. Akkana Peck introduces us to Tkinter, and shows us how to create an all-purpose timer (for cooking and other reminders for absent-minded geeks) in one lesson

The recession has sharply accelerated interest in open source technologies among enterprise IT buyers, says an eWEEK story. Pointing to recent remarks made by Alfresco GM Matt Asay, the story says that cost pressures and the growing maturity of open-source software has led to a pronounced shift in recent months. Only two and a half years ago, potential buyers of Alfresco's Linux-ready web content management tools were telling Asay that open source software was "too risky" for them. A week ago, the same buyer changed his mind, telling Asay that in the current economic climate, he could lose his job buying expensive proprietary software, according to the story.

Freescale may be the first semiconductor company to associate itself aggressively with portable Linux devices. The former Motorola semiconductor division is sharply targeting the low-priced Linux-based Netbook market, which is hot in the world market and just starting to get warm in the US. read more