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Christmas is a time for rest and contemplation. To intersperse the period with some distraction on long winter evenings, a number of Linux games can prove some diversion, as this article will show.

Free Software is widely used in education due to its lower cost and huge flexibility. Homeschooling is relatively popular in the USA and other countries. One would expect Free Software to be very popular among homeschoolers, due to their own philosophy: how could an homeschooling advocate not love software that is all about being "free as in freedom" and doing things by yourself?

Compared to past years when recapping the AMD/ATI Linux advancements over the past calendar year, 2009 was not quite as exciting, which can be viewed as both good and bad for their Catalyst Linux driver. There were many advancements this year on AMD's open-source side, but in 2009 there wasn't as many milestones for their Catalyst driver like in the past with the introduction of CrossFire, OverDrive, same-day Linux support, the AMD Catalyst Control Center, and other new features. Here is our 2009 year in review look at AMD's advancements to their proprietary Catalyst Linux driver along with our annual benchmarks.

Setup bellow might seem strange unless you will become aware of some ongoing issues with VNC-Console behavior during virt-install running on the most recent OSOL build 130. View recent threads at xen-discuss forum@opensolaris.org

The group behind the $100 laptop has revealed the design for its latest computer aimed at connecting children in the developing world.

As a Linux user you will have to ocasionally pay for the Proprietary sins of others. Usually this in the form of recieving an email attachment in a proprietary format.

Written in Java, RSSOwl is a powerful feed reader for Linux, with support for RSS, RDF and Atom feeds, with a lot of features and customisation options. Licensed under the Eclipse Public License, RSSOwl includes features like:

I'm sure from time to time each of you likes to reset their most used applications list in KDE. Especially if it's become the goto item for most of you legacy KDE users like myself. Well, before this I'm sure you've searched high and low to find a way to reset that, and ultimately come up with nothing. Well, I have a very simple solution for you that will make resetting this easy. Well, reasonably easy. You'll need to have a little command line fu under your belt to achieve this.

I've finally managed to get it running. FullHD videos with only 30 % cpu on an Atom netbook. Here is what I had to do...

Omega is a completely free and open source Linux-based operating system and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is an installable live image (1.3 GB) for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It has all the features of Fedora and a number of additional software, including multimedia players and codecs enabled by default. Omega plays any multimedia content (including MP3) or commercial DVDs out of the box. Features: simple and effective GNOME desktop environment; plays MP3 and all your multimedia content; OpenOffice.org office suite; extra utilities and games; xine and MPlayer frontends; includes the latest updates. Omega is 100% compatible with Fedora, only including packages from Fedora, RPM Fusion and Livna software repositories.

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 was released earlier this year, on December 17 at the Adobe MAX 2009. This release comes with several new features and numerous bug fixes. To install Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 in Ubuntu 9.10, just follow the steps below:

This tutorial shows how to install some google applications on Fedora 12 like Picassa , Google Chrome ; Goolge Earth, Google gadgets, Google Desktop

It took me a while to install vlmc from source code and I can say it is not easy. However, vlmc is currently under heavy developing and doesn't offer advanced tools for video editing. After playing with vlmc, I feel that it is simple, use-friendly, and stable (believe it or not ). Although, vlmc is under early developing stage, It offer basic tools like resizing, trimming, render and history.

When trying to add the iceowl-extension package — Debian's renamed version of Mozilla's Lightning/Sunbird calendar app — to an existing Icedove installation in Lenny, I quickly learned from Mozilla's Calendar Weblog that a certain library package must be installed before you install Lightning/Iceowl.

Nexuiz is one of the most popular shooter games which emerged after the open-sourcing of the Quake 3 engine, featuring a fast-paced game style and several game modes, like the popular DM or CTF. Nexuiz is a free, GPL-licensed, first-person shooter developed online by the Internet-based team Alientrap, and it comes with ports for Linux, Windows and Mac.

KDE has had something of a rough time over the last couple of years. The transition from version 3.5 to 4.x hasn't been easy, and over this period many distributions have decided to use either Gnome or stick with KDE 3.5 as their default desktop. But we feel KDE 4 has now matured to a point where most KDE users can safely dump their old desktop and move on to the new one. There are very few stability issues, and most of the functionality found in 3.5 has been migrated to 4.3.

Here, as promised, is the SUSE Reply [PDF] about lifting the bankruptcy stay, more properly titled SUSE's Reply in Support of its Motion for Relief from the Automatic Stay to Complete International Arbitration. This document is in response to SCO Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn's Objection to SUSE's motion, and they do not hold back. Most interestingly, they highlight the GPL and what it means for SCO's copyright claims

Editor's note: we are attempting to find out when and where this can be downloaded from. Dr. Matthew King, Edgeware Technologies and Mr. Djien So have collaborated over the last 3 years to develop a VistA compatible, high quality, multi-featured Practice Management System. The PMS will be released with the affero v2 GPL open source license.

Today, the first version of polkit-qt-1 and polkit-kde-1 have been released to the public. Thanks to these tools, KDE applications now integrate nicely with the new polkit-1 with a native authentication dialog. An authorization manager, the equivalent of the Polkit Authorization System Settings module, will be included in future releases. Find out more about PolicyKit on Freedesktop.org..

Some might say that the mission of Ubuntu is to cleanse the upstream projects of the "sins" that make them hard to deal with from the vantage point of the average user. Put more plainly: Whether it's true or not, I think many users out there (myself included) somehow expect Ubuntu to fix every d@mn thing that's broken in the Linux user experience. The problem is that Ubuntu is not Linux.