About Linux: Puppy Linux 5.3 Released

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Linux Linux Get Started Explore Linux Become a Guru From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux As the name suggests, the Puppy Linux distribution is small in size and easy to handle. But it would be a mistake to assume that this limits its capabilities in any way. Its small form factor actually opens up new possibilities. Puppy Linux 5.3 Developers have announced version 5.3 of the small-footprint Linux distro Puppy. This version was built with the Woof build tool and is based on the Linux distribution Slackware 13.37 and Linux kernel 2.6.37.6... Read more 3D Graphics Tool Blender 2.60 Released Blender now supports 3D audio, which allows you to place speaker objects in your 3D Blender scene. There are a number of improvements in the game engine, such as the addition of navigation meshes, which for example allows actors to find a path to a target or an escape route...Read more How to Pass Arguments to a Bash Script When writing bash scripts it is sometimes helpful to pass in parameters so that the same script can be used for different tasks. Bash provides various methods that enables a script to capture and use arguments specified when the script is called from the command line.... Read more Linux Ads Linux Install Fonts Linux Linux Live CD Red Hat Linux Puppy Linux Software Featured Articles   More from About.com Food and Mood Indulging a sweet tooth can cause weight gain, guilt and even worsen depression. Here are a few expert tips to help you resist. More> Carb Cravings Ever wondered why you crave carbs (or chocolate and sugar) when you're depressed? Some scientists say it may be chemical. More> This newsletter is written by: Juergen Haas Linux Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2011 About.com   Must Reads Linux Desktop 101 Linux Glossary Linux Commands Shell Commands Linux Games   Follow me on: Advertisement

About Linux: Alien Arena 2011

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Linux Linux Get Started Explore Linux Become a Guru From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux It's time to have some fun and conquer the universe. The annual release of Alien Arena is out with lots of improvements and new features. Alian Arena 7.52 The 2011 release (version 7.52) of the advanced sci-fi 3D shooter game is now available. Highlights of the latest release include four new levels, vegetation shadow-mapping, new models and improved effects. Like many other great 3D shooter games, Alien Arena is based on the Quake II engine and is in some ways similar to Quake III and Unreal Tournament... Read more Xming - X Windows Manager for Microsoft Windows Linux is frequently used on servers that users can access only through a network connection. Typically such servers are used and administered through command line interfaces. However, Linux implementations also provide the X windows system, which makes it possible to run graphical user interfaces on the Linux server but display the corresponding windows on the user's desktop computer... Read more FreeMind - Hierarchical Editing Sometimes a regular word processor such as OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word is not the best tool for capturing ideas or concepts, especially if they involve hierarchical relationships. FreeMind is a program that lets you build so-called mind maps which express relationships between items... Read more Linux Ads Linux Linux Admin Commands Linux Live CD Linux Magazine 120 Red Hat Linux Featured Articles   More from About.com Food and Mood Indulging a sweet tooth can cause weight gain, guilt and even worsen depression. Here are a few expert tips to help you resist. More> Carb Cravings Ever wondered why you crave carbs (or chocolate and sugar) when you're depressed? Some scientists say it may be chemical. More> This newsletter is written by: Juergen Haas Linux Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2011 About.com   Must Reads Linux Desktop 101 Linux Glossary Linux Commands Shell Commands Linux Games   Follow me on: Advertisement

About Linux: Official Release of Ubuntu 11.10

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Linux Linux Get Started Explore Linux Become a Guru From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux The nice thing about Linux is that if you get tired of your current operating system you can easily replace it with another. There many excellent versions of Linux with different look-and-feel and different levels for support for specific uses. But today is Ubuntu day... Ubuntu Linux Updated Unlike Microsoft Windows operating systems or Mac operating systems, there many different versions of Linux yet they all use the same kernel and can be exchanged without impacting user data. You can even have several versions installed at the same time, and select one at system start-up...Read more... Chrome Adds Remote Desktop Function Chromium developers are working on a "remote desktop" extension of the Chrome browser and have released a beta version of the software for general testing and user feedback. The basic functionality is to access and control one computer remotely from another computer...Read more Skrooge 1.0.0 The KDE based personal finance manager Skrooge has been updated to version 1.0.0. Besides bug fixes and performance enhancements, there are a number of new features, such as gouping of operations and new report formats... Read more Linux Ads Linux Ubuntu Linux System Monitor Linux Desktop OS Operating System Featured Articles   More from About.com Food and Mood Indulging a sweet tooth can cause weight gain, guilt and even worsen depression. Here are a few expert tips to help you resist. More> Carb Cravings Ever wondered why you crave carbs (or chocolate and sugar) when you're depressed? Some scientists say it may be chemical. More> This newsletter is written by: Juergen Haas Linux Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2011 About.com   Must Reads Linux Desktop 101 Linux Glossary Linux Commands Shell Commands Linux Games   Follow me on: Advertisement

About Linux: Playing Windows Games on Linux

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Linux Linux Get Started Explore Linux Become a Guru From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux Many of the most popular computer games have been written for Microsoft Windows operations systems and are sometimes difficult to run on Linux. The primary method to run Windows software on Linux is through the compatibility layer Wine. However, advanced games often require tweaks and optimizations to meet the demands of hardcore gamers. The CrossOver Games, and Cedega (now GameTree Linux) projects represent commerical approaches aimed at streamlining the process of installing native Windows games on Linux. PlayOnLinux provides a free alternative. PlayOnLinux 4.0.12 PlayOnLinux is a collection of free software for installing games and other applications, that were developed for Microsoft Windows, on Linux systems. Like CrossOver Games, it is based on the compatibility layer Wine... Read more Updated FSF Free Software Directory The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced an update of its Free Software Directory, which includes more than 6,500 packages that anybody can download, use, and re-distribute. Each item in the repository has been individually checked and tested on Linux systems... Read more Parted Magic 6.7 The disk partitioning package Parted Magic has been updated to version 6.7. Included are Linux kernel 3.0.4, Gnome Partition Editor (GParted) 0.9.1, and Firefox 6.0.2... Read more Linux Ads Linux Linux on Windows Linux Red Hat Linux Server Setup Ubuntu Linux System Featured Articles   More from About.com Food and Mood Indulging a sweet tooth can cause weight gain, guilt and even worsen depression. Here are a few expert tips to help you resist. More> Carb Cravings Ever wondered why you crave carbs (or chocolate and sugar) when you're depressed? Some scientists say it may be chemical. More> This newsletter is written by: Juergen Haas Linux Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2011 About.com   Must Reads Linux Desktop 101 Linux Glossary Linux Commands Shell Commands Linux Games   Follow me on: Advertisement