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Linux Games are going main stream now. Wasteland 2 follows the greatly successful 1988 version of the role playing game, by the same name. Wasteland follows the success of Double Fine Adventure developed by game producer of Brian Fargo of InXile Entertainment.

Lxer.com is an aggregator of (mostly) reader-submitted news about Linux and Free/Open Source software. On March 27th, 2012, Lxer.com published this news...

Microsoft was using this patent against Motorola and B&N. Motorola found a post by Linus Torvalds which predated the Microsoft patent by three years. Microsoft lawyers were not happy with this and argued with Linus over the confirmation of the date to an extent that the creator of Linux told them to stop that stupid argument. "At some point, I basically said: ‘OK stop this stupid argument, can we go on to something else?" says Linus.

In the 1960?s, when the early generation of mainframe computers began popping up at places like MIT, it quickly became obvious that users needed a way to identify themselves on the machine they were logging into.

It appears that Charlie Kravetz, the Xubuntu Project leader, has resigned last week, March 19th, 2012. This will not affect on the Xubuntu operating system!

What do instant coffee and Poole have in common? Both can be used to get a result in seconds. Put a teaspoon or two of instant coffee in a cup, add hot water, stir, and enjoy. Generating a website with Pool is almost as fast and easy.

When Maggie Vail first heard about open-source software, she said, “it felt like punk rock.” Ms. Vail, a longtime member of the independent rock music scene, is one of the executive directors of CASH Music, a nonprofit group that wants to bring some of punk’s do-it-yourself spirit to an area that many musicians find frustratingly complex and expensive: managing their music and fan interactions online.

Need to keep files and documents in sync across multiple Linux machines? Bitpocket provides a no-nonsense solution to the problem.

This howto will show how you can set up LinOTP on CentOS 6.2. LinOTP is a modular and flexible solution for two factor authentication with one time passwords. This howto uses the community packages that are available at the python package index PyPI.

The patents cover TiVo's "multimedia time warping system," TiVo's "time shifting multimedia content streams," and its method and apparatus for allowing rewind, pause, and fast forward capabilities in streaming video.

A new version of the KDE edition has been finished. Toorox 03.2012 contains the Linux kernel 3.2.2-gentoo and the recent desktop environment, KDE 4.8.1. All packages are up-to-date. The nm-applet was replaced by the KDE NetworkManager for your network connections. Also contains: X.Org Server 1.11.4, Mesa 8.0.1, IceCat 10.0.1, WINE 1.4, VLC 2.0, LibreOffice 3.4.5, Audacious 3.2.1, Mixxx 1.10.0. Major change: Toorox now supports 11 languages: German, English, Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Turkish. Toorox 03.2012 'KDE' is available now in the download area as 32-bi and 64-bit variants.

A distinguishing feature of the Comice OS 4 desktop is the Dock, which is powered by Docky. By default, it is always visible, but it can be tweaked to auto-hide and reappear on mouseover. This tutorial shows how it is done.

While Ubuntu support for ARM hardware is in great shape with Canonical investing significantly in the rapidly-growing ARM-based mobile market and the to-be-growing ARM server-space, plus other Linux distributions taking on ARM, official support for Fedora on ARM hasn't been quick to come by. In fact, Fedora developers still remain unconvinced about taking on ARM as a primary architecture...

I was getting set to download and test the latest Ubuntu release (right now in beta), and decided it might be wise to skim the release notes to see what’s new.

Under “new features,” I spied this: “Beta-1 includes the 3.2.0-17.27 Ubuntu kernel which is based on the v3.2.6 upstream stable kernel.” The Ubuntu kernel? Give me a break, guys.

Lest you wonder whether this was an intentional naming decision, it does seem to be that Canonical is deliberately avoiding using the L word. The release notes were imported by Canonical’s Kate Stewart (release manager) with the “Ubuntu kernel” language.

First and foremost, a word of warning: while the previous articles were centered around the beginner, this article is for more advanced users, that already "speak" a programming language or two, and want to customize their editor towards it being ideal for the task. So you are expected to be more or less proficient in the ways of emacs, to be able to use it for day to day tasks and have the ability and desire to learn something new. After all, it will be for your own reward, and your programming tasks will become more efficient.

This past week on the Linux Planet has been all about key development milestones. The GNOME 3.4 desktop is nearly done, openSUSE is at its second milestone and Fedora is trying to figure out what will follow the Beefy Miracle.

Mozilla believes that the Web is the platform for apps, and not just business productivity apps, but gaming apps as well. To prove their point, the open source foundation now has a full HTML5 browser game out now called BrowserQuest.

We are running an online poll to find if there is a need for a Gnome 3 Shell based derivative of Ubuntu, just like Kubuntu or Xubuntu. Please cast your vote below. The poll ends on 2 April March, so get as many friends as you can to vote.

Sydneysider Mary Gardiner, a well-known figure in Australian FOSS circles, has been chosen to give the opening keynote at Wikimania, the international conference for Wikipedia-related projects, in Washington DC in July.

Today we all have in our pocket, in the office or our child’s room, a device for shooting videos. Maybe with high quality or HD. Today, with this simple tutorial, I’ll show you how to do, i do not say a new film for an Oscar, but some video with friends or some home movies with your family. Maybe you can take a birthday, a battesimo or a wedding and at your home with a few hours of patience you’ll have a really catchy videos. Video effects, background music, effects with dynamics writing and anything else! In short, everything you want with very little. In fact you can install this software on any PC running Linux (for example in this article I will use Ubuntu 11.10) and with video requirements not so high.