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Download Osmos – An Indie Linux Game

May-17th-2010

Go download the latest Indie game released for Linux.

Ubuntu One Music Store

May-2nd-2010

The Ubuntu One store. What a brilliant idea. Everyone loves music. And Linux users love open source software. People contribute in all sorts of ways – Writing open source software, submitting bug reports, or maintaining a blogging website like this one!

Microsoft Windows – Magazine FAIL

Apr-13th-2010

Tweet I can’t quite believe I’m seeing this… An officially endorsed Windows magazine, and on the front cover of April 2010 edition it proclaims: Revitalise your PC in One Hour !

My Life in Cartoon Motion

Mar-19th-2010

Next time you’re in an English pub that sells Spitfire Ale, you just have to buy a pint!

Epic Gwenview plugins

Mar-11th-2010

Tweet I love the new array of KDE apps that were introduced with the birth of KDE4. My favourite is the awesome Dolphin File Browser. I also really liked Gwenview – it was quite reminiscent of a typical MacOSX look and feel. Anway… I’ve been checking out the Fedora 13 artwork, by the amazing Mairin Duffy, [...]

Illustrating the HTML5 video tag with Stephen Fry

Mar-1st-2010

Despite the apparent irony of having an Apple Mac sat in front of him, here is Stephen Fry discussing the rise and rise of GNU and Linux

KDE 4.4 is the Epitome of Why We Love Fedora…

Feb-12th-2010

The fact that this rebase to KDE 4.4 is being pushed to the Fedora-Updates repo is, for me, a symbolic representation of why we love using Fedora

Amazon Response: Amazon Linux MP3 Download Service

May-14th-2009

We encode our MP3 files using variable bit rates for maximum audio quality and smaller file sizes, aiming at an average of 256 kilobits per second (kbps). Using a variable bit rate allows us to allocate a higher bit rate to the more complex sections of music files while using a smaller bit rate for the less complex sections.

SOLVED – XFX 9500GT – recent nvidia driver problems

Feb-7th-2009

Tweet Scenario OK, so my situation. I have an XFX nvidia 9500GT graphics card. I could not upgrade my Linux driver from 177.82 to any of the 180.** series, and I also could not update my Windows 178.24 driver to any of the 18*.** series. Why is this a problem for me? Well I really [...]

World of Goo for Linux – unofficial Patch

Jan-26th-2009

Tweet UPDATE: All problems described below have now been fixed in beta 7 of World of Goo for Linux. Great work! First of all, a quick link section. Download link: Unofficial_WoG_Patch.tar.gz Instructions: extract to the World of Goo directory (where the file “WorldOfGoo” sits). Usage: Really basic usage! just double click the “WoGFixLinux” icon!! command [...]