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Manage Wine "bottles"

Wibom gives you the kind of functionality available in Crossover Linux

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Alien Arena 2011 released

SuperTuxKart 0.7 Released

True Combat Elite

Xonotic, a Nexuiz fork

Xorg 7.6 released

Releases/7.6

X11R7.6 development is complete: the final release has been posted. (See the announcement for further details.)

Features Added/Enhanced

XCB included in the katamari, required by libX11 1.4 and some clients.

Xorg server 1.8 changes, including new input hotplugging and configuration framework

Xorg server 1.9 changes

Documentation: Most protocol & API docs moved from xorg-docs into individual proto/library modules, converted from legacy formats to DocBook/XML where possible.

Massive amounts of configure.ac/Makefile.am cleanup & improvement. Lots of previously duplicated bits moved to xorg-macros (requiring recent xorg-macros versions when we build the tarballs, but unless you autoreconf that shouldn't affect people building from tarballs).

Most of the COPYING file stubs have been replaced with actual copies of the copyright & license notices for easier packaging by distributors who provide such notices in their packages.

Features Removed

Xsdl - experimental kdrive server using SDL that was never finished

Frame buffer support in XF86DGA

Multibuffer extension in X servers - deprecated since the 90's

Schedule

RC1: 11 November 2010
Final Release: 20 December 2010

http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.6

Duke Nukem source code

One of the highlights of the year has been the release of the Duke Nukem source code.

You can literally spend hours playing around with the kick ass code.

• Make sure SDL and SDL_mixer are installed on your system.


• Make sure you've got a Duke3D ATOMIC EDITION cd-rom. You might be able to get away with the shareware version or one of the other retail versions.


• You'll need some way to install the game from the cd-rom under DOS. DOSemu works. VMware, VirtualPC, Bochs, or a real DOS/Windows system may or may not work.


• Once you have the game installed, and run setup.exe under DOSbox to generate a duke3d.cfg file. Select any sound card for music and FX playback (we use this as a on/off switch for audio).


• Copy the installed game dir to your Linux system.


• Get the source code from Subversion:


• svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/duke3d/trunk/ duke3d


• cd duke3d/source


• make


• You should have a "duke3d" binary now. Copy it to the game dir.


• There are some .con files in the "testdata" dir you get from the duke3d Subversion. Copy them to the game dir, CAPITALIZED, so they overwrite the ones that came with the original game.


• Run game, be happy.


• If you get really bad audio output under win32, edit your Duke3d.cfg file so "MixRate" is "8000" and not "44000". YMMV.


• On Linux/ppc, the "make" lines above should be "make linux_ppc=true"

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Linux Gamers Rock

While every day is Christmas for Ubuntu, I think this is great site for Linux Gamers. Enjoy

http://www.penguspy.com

Wikileaks Cyberprotests hot up

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The danger is not that the counter-DDOS campaign being waged by a group of Wikileaks supporters called Anonymous and Anon Op, have the potential to escalate into destructive attacks against infrastructure, but rather that we are forgetting to draw a distinction between legitimate political expression and "cybercrime".

South Africa's constitution enshrines the right of every citizen to communications freedom, to receive or impart information and ideas. Furthermore, all South Africans possess political rights which include the right to assemble, to gather and to mobilise around specific issues as needs be.

Calling the online protest action against sites which sought to destroy Wikileaks, the dangerous work of criminals, is like calling a student sit in at a lunch counter, an armed uprising.

As John Perry Barlow says: "The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops."

In an infowar there are no victims as such, the only thing which is harmed is information, the only activity which is disrupted is communication. While there are laws in place which make the disruption of communication an offense, consider this. If a person requests 1 html page, that person is considered a law-abiding citizen. If that same person requests 1000x pages that person is disrupting communications and is a criminal. Worse, he or she is branded an international terrorist.

Thus far the only tools being used in the campaign by Anonymous are load-testing tools which, if misused, have the side-effect of DDOS. They are hardly illegal. As we have seen, the campaign is not destructive and has only succeeded in disrupting communication to some target sites for 24hours or so. As an essay in the economist argues, this is not the work of cyber-vigilantism, rather it is an example of Athenian democracy in action. Repeatedly reloading the pages of the sites in question, will have a similar effect.

Yet there are people who would seek to outlaw the possession of load-testing tools, to make it a crime to reload pages or to direct traffic to a website in protest.

When enough people engage in online protest action, the issue of political intent comes into play. What are the intentions of those who seek to disrupt the communication of Paypal and Mastercard? Clearly, the intention in this case, is to draw attention to the DDOS attacks against Wikileaks conducted by an invisible government. People have every right to question authority and to demand an Internet where rights are extended to all, regardless of ones politics.

I may not agree with the Anti-Anti-Wikileaks struggle, but I certainly do not agree with the Anti-Wikileaks campaign.

LINKS

Wikileaks gets its own defence network

24hour Athenian Democracy

Hacktivists talk

Anonymous Hactivist explains

Protests against detention of Julian Assange

Replicant, the libre answer to Android

Google has long been bashed for gradually steering Android away from Linux proper and allowing carriers and handset manufacturers to dilute it with proprietary software. Replicant aims to right that wrong.

Developed by LibrePlanet Italia and Software Freedom Centre, Replicant seeks to be the 100% free software compliant mobile operating system that is built on Android.

"Most of Android is licensed freely under the Apache License 2.0. The Linux core is mostly Free Software under the GPLv2. However, there are numerous components of the default software stack on the HTC phones that are proprietary software. Most notably, nearly any component that touches the hardware directly is proprietary software."

Currently, Replicant is being tested on the Google Nexus 1 and other phones that come with root privileges. It is still very early in the development stage. However, if you feel you are already excited about a purists version of Android, then you can grab a copy of one of the unstable images.

For those who think Android will be bad for the community as a whole given the path its being taken, Replicant should be a welcome project.

THANKS: Ghabuntu

Milkytracker

MilkyTracker is a great audio tracker ported from the Amiga.

sudo apt-get install milkytracker

Here is a tutorial to get you started

Some video tutorials