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Independent game developer KarjaSoft announces the Linux version of Spandex Force, a tongue-in-cheek puzzle game with RPG elements.
Spandex Force is a superhero-themed puzzle game that lets the player create his or her own hero to clean up the crime-infested town of Vigilance Valley. The game features many different kinds of minigames including, but not limited […]

It’s big, it’s tough and it can run Linux and Windows! Check it out, the SwitchBack UMPC.

Wow, talk about dwelling on the past! Regardless, FreeDOS has indeed hit a real milestone today. It seems that the OS has nailed version 1.0.

OK, so it’s not Puppy Linux. But this piece below does offer yet another alternative to consider when trying to figure out what to do with that old PC of yours…

Firefox Flicks rocks - pure and simple. If you have not checked out some of the videos hosted here, you are definitely missing out.
Think I am wrong? I submit that this has been one of the most successful campaigns in many, many years.

OK, you are right and this does look just like Digg.com. Regardless, I am interested in seeing how this site works out.

Speaking as a fan of Linux games, they are not likely to appeal to fans of Battlefield 2 and Counter Strike. Sure, there may be pretty decent looking, but Linux is just not that hot in the gaming scene right now.

Speaking for myself, I think I would just wait for version 2.0 before juimping head first into this PVR project. After all, there are bound to be some serious bug fixes then.

If you are a Mac owner, yet still wish to participate in the OSS magic? Then I do believe that this is the page for you!

Actually, I do not remember the GP2 specifically. Regardless though, the Linux-powered PMP is back with a vengeance and is likely to do well this time around.

There is a real desire to encourage developers to begin porting ASP.NET apps over to Linux. Since funds may not always be plentiful in this type of project, some have taken to drastic methods of encouragement - gaming consoles.

Are you into visual novel games for the PC? Willing to take a ported version for a spin? Then you might wish to check out Narcissu, now available for Linux.

Dave, I am a Sun Solaris sysadmin and really liked your book
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. However, I don’t seem to find the “rev” utility on any of my Sun servers running Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and even 9. I couldn’t find it on the sunfreeware.com site either. Could you tell me where I can find […]

If you live in the US and don’t have it on cable or your dish, perhaps a bar with a satellite dish can pull it down for you. If you live in Detroit or Buffalo, you should be able to get it on rabbit ears. The time is local to your time zone […]

It seems that 2004 has definitely been a year for the Linux OS. Don’t take my word for it though, folks. Just have a look here at the calender that PC Pro put together to illustrate some of the more memorable moments in the Linux 2004 timeline.

If you’ve been working to design your desktop theme to closely resemble Windows, why stop there? Install Windowlike, an app that completes the Windoze experience by randomly crashing your applications! Combine it with the Blue Screen of Death screensaver and it will be like you never even installed Linux!

This isn’t necessarily Linux related, but it’s too good not to share. You see, one of the techs I work with recently discovered that Cisco has a theme song. Or at least a theme song for their training programs — he wasn’t entirely clear on its purpose.

Got an old laptop lying around doing nothing? Why not throw Linux on it? There are a lot of things that it can be doing, from acting as a small file or backup server to serving out recipes in the kitchen to acting as a picture frame. That’s right, with a little effort and a […]

The idea of building a Xbox Linux cluster is not just ironic, it is cool too. Taking something designed by Linux’s arch enemy and making it work with the ‘other OS’ is just classic.
Then to make things even more complicated, to experiment to see if a Linux cluster could be built out of them. Sounds […]

Sure, everyone jokes about telling end (l)users to “fix” their systems by running “format c:” or “rm -Rf /” (depending on OS, of course), but does it really work? One fella decided to give it a shot, and the results are here, complete with screenshots.