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Popular Linux game SpaceChem is now free for Schools encouraging use of games for educational purposes. Interested schools can now request free license of the game before the end of January 2012. SpaceChem is an intriguing, "problem-solving centric" puzzle game by Zachtronics Industries that combines the logic of computer programming with the scientific domain of chemistry, set in an original science fiction universe. Players build machines using mechanics similar to visual programming that assemble and transform chemical compounds. Players later connect those machines together to form complex pipelines, and ultimately construct special pipelines to fight back against space-monsters that threaten humanity

A year ago, thousands of you followed the cyber security adventures of Frank Adversego through to their surprising, cliff-hanger conclusion. As an election year approaches in the U.S., there's new evil afoot, and only Frank can get to the bottom of it.

Wnotes allow you to stick Post-It (tm) type notes nearly anywhere on your Linux desktop portably, using your existing desktop configuration. They're simple to install and use, and designed to co-exist with as many graphical programs as possible, even other note programs.

The older way of doing this, with gconftool-2 doesn’t seem to work anymore in GNOME 3, however, there is still possible to change the background image, by using the gsettings tool instead.

It's been awhile since I've sunk my teeth into a good book review so I'm finally glad to get my appetite back and start consuming Trevor Burnham's "CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development" book. I'm actually just as interested in trying out CoffeeScript itself as in having a look at what the book has to offer. Well then, let's get started.

fpmurphy has create a Gnome 3 extension called Auto Hide Top Panel (uploaded to Gnome Extensions by erguille), which hides the top panel and give you full screen - it not only saves time but also removes distracting elements. When you take the mouse on the top, the panel will appear. Since all the menus remain with the respective windows (unlike Unity's global menu) there is no productivity loss.

Canonical announced yesterday, December 2nd, that several more security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system.

Over the last four years or so, I have attended numerous conferences in many different locations. It has been, really without any exceptions, an incredible experience. Conferences are one of the main ways that our communities come together and meet face-to-face—something that's important to counterbalance the standard email and IRC development environment. In that time, I have also seen many different ways to organize, schedule, and produce those conferences, and, as is the case with free software projects, there are bits and pieces that conferences can learn from each other. What follows is my—fairly opinionated obviously—distillation of what works well and less well, which will hopefully be useful as new conferences spring up, or as existing ones plan for next year.

Welcome to the 176th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Thanks to the Humble Bundle i’ve discovered also this nice game: Dungeons of Dredmor. It’s a classic Rogue-like game, you have to move your hero in 10 level of dungeons where you’ll fight against terrible monsters, to get new equipment, skills and fight the big bad Evil guy, from the official site:

Long ago, the Dark Lord Dredmor was bound in the darkest dungeons beneath the earth by great and mighty heroes. Centuries later, the magical bonds that hold him in place are loosening and his power grows ever stronger. The land cries out for a new hero, a powerful warrior or a mystic wizard like those spoken of in the prophecies of yore.

What they have, unfortunately, is you…

Nothing new on the story side, what make Dungeons of Dredmor so appealing it’s it’s comic style and the humour that the authors have used in the whole game.

Linux Mint, the venerable Ubuntu based Linux distro, is in the news again. Linux Mint 12 codenamed "Lisa" is finally released. It based on GNOME 3.0 and runs GNOME Shell with some ingenious tweaks of its own. Detailed review of Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" OS. Read on.

Visualising the Free Software / Open Source operating system users around the world !

A new development release of the Linux 3.2 kernel took place on Thursday...

A list that will always be updated with games currently going on sale for Linux!

CMus This is one of the best, feature-rich players for console. Build using ncurses and thus offering a text user interface, CMus has several view modes, organizes your music by artist/album, provides playlists and a library view, a filebrowser, it allows searching, Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbling via this script, and it uses Vi-like keyboard shortcuts.

Genode, the interesting research (non-Linux) operating system developed on a unique framework architecture, recently experienced the release of Genode OS 11.11. This operating system, which brought Gallium3D support last year, now has a variety of virtualization modules available...

Ubuntu 12.04 named 'Precise Pangolin' alpha 1 has been released with many new features and bug fixes.

There's a new release of the open-source Lightspark software for handling Adobe SWF/Flash support on the Linux desktop. New to Lightspark 0.5.3 among other changes is a working Microsoft Windows port...

We are pleased to bring you the first set of developer images that capture the current fleeting reality of our Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04 alpha 1) as it starts to emerge. Alpha 1 includes the 3.2.0-2.5 Ubuntu kernel which is based on the latest mainline 3.2-rc3 Linux kernel. This is an update from the 3.0 kernel in Oneiric. Another noticeable change is the consolidation of the amd64 server flavor into the generic flavor. This will help minimize the maintenance burden over the life of this LTS release. The alpha 1 kernel also adds support for additional ALPS touchpads, contains an updated seccomp patch set, and numerous configuration changes. Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 Precise Pangolin Screenshots

With software patents the US has become a dangerous place for software development, including innovative software development, because when a program is innovative, that means it has some new ideas in it. But it also has lots of well-known ideas in it. A large program combines thousands of ideas. So if you have some new ideas and you want to use them, in order to use them you have to combine them with a lot of other ideas that are well-known. And if you are not allowed to do that because those other ideas are patented, you can't use your new idea.