Thursday, November 29, 2012

About Linux: FlightGear - Open Source Flight Simulator Software

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FlightGear - Open Source Flight Simulator Software
While flight simulators originally had the purpose of training pilots on new aircraft models, practice navigation and communication, the wide availability of powerful computers and high-resolution displays made it possible for almost anybody to convert their personal computer into a flight simulator... Read more

How to Write Bash Functions
Even though Bash is a Linux shell, it has many of the capabilities needed to be a general purpose programming language, such as loops and conditional expressions. While-loops and For-loops are ways to execute a sequence of instructions multiple times. Functions are another method you can use to prevent code duplication... Read more

Simulate Linux on Windows with Cygwin
Sometimes you have to use Microsoft Windows, but still want to have access to Linux's handy scripting and editing tools. In that case Cygwin might be the right tool. It installs like a regular Windows application, but gives you a bash shell with similar capabilities as in Linux... Read more



 


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Thursday, November 22, 2012

About Linux: Linux Mint 14

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Linux Mint 14
The Ubuntu based Linux Mint distribution has been updated to version 14 (codename Nadia). The latest release, which is built on the recently released Ubuntu 12.10, shows off much improved versions of the desktop environments MATE, the successor of Gnome 2, Cinnamon, and MDM... Read more

Free Ryzom for Linux
Originally released in 2004, the MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) game Ryzom was opened up to the open source community in 2010. Developers have provided a free Linux client which can be downloaded from the Ryzom developer web site... Read more

Pithos - Linux Client for Pandora Music
Pithos is a light-weight Linux client application that connects to your Pandora account and provides a convenient interface for creating stations, listing to music, and refining criteria used to select the songs for each of your stations... Read more



 


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Thursday, November 15, 2012

About Linux: Titan: World's Fastest Supercomputer

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World's Fastest Supercomputer Clocked At 17.5 PetaFlop
A new supercomputer assembled at the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee is ranked number 1 in the latest Top500 supercomputer ranking... Read more

Two Tripwire Games on Steam for Linux
The two first person shooter games Killing Floor and Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 are now available on the Linux version of Valve's gaming platform Steam... Read more

Synfig 2D Animation Software
Synfig is a free vector-based 2D animation program that you can use to produce feature-film quality animation. One of the key functionalities of Synfig is automatic "tweening"... Read more



 


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Thursday, November 8, 2012

About Linux: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Linux

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NVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Linux
A collaborative effort by NVIDIA, Valve Corporation, and other game developers over the past year has produced extraordinary high-performance Linux drivers for the NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards... Read more

Google Chrome 23 Released
Highlights of the latest version of the Chrome web browser include easier control of permissions granted to websites, such as enabling pop-ups, camera access, and geolocation gathering, and the ability to send a request to websites to turn off tracking... Read more

TaskJuggler 3.3.0 Availablev
This version brings new interoperability functions, such as export to Microsoft Project XML format. TaskJuggler is an advanced Open Source project management program for Linux that has various features that go beyond commonly used Gantt chart editing software... Read more



 


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