For those who haven’t heard, Linux runs games nearly as well as Windows does. In fact, if you’ve got a good driver for your video card and even semi-stable video acceleration, then your system might run games even better.
If you’re looking to find great 3D action games for Linux, I recommend first checking out Unreal Tournament and all the other stuff that Loki Games has released.
The Somers, N.Y. based software group also said it is expanding its own developerWorks Web site with more resources including training in PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) a popular open-source programming language for creating Web pages. and other popular technologies. It is also working with Zend Technologies on a new developerWorks subsite devoted to PHP.
PHP has long been regarded as the ideal combination of ease of use, speed of development, durability, and integration for running web applications on a linux server. It’s also been popular to run PHP on IIS but definitely less so than on Apache. For IBM to support it is a huge mark toward greater web applications
In a report by The Register, the update available to Firefox contains something that is not only unnecessary, but harmful to the internationalization of the world’s DNS systems.
The new Mozilla Firefox release has many great updates and improvements. There are many things about system integration and proper file permissions handling that are definitely useful additions. However, there’s been criticism about one update that removes the ability to use URLs of different languages. This might help to avoid some spoofing, but it’s a step back for localization and de-Westernization.
The Register writes that the ICANN and CENTR have publicly scolded the Mozilla Foundation for this move. The process of removing English as the sole language of the internet is important for all who care about unity or even fairness.
The world’s registrars and registries didn’t agree. CENTR - the Council of European National TLD Registries - called Mozilla’s post a “hasty ill-considered response”. Centr represents “over 98 per cent of domain registrations worldwide” and “believes such strong reactions are heavily detrimental to the effort to introduce non-English languages and scripts to the internet, and could have lasting repercussions on the ongoing effort to internationalise the DNS”.
From this article :NewsForge | The GIMP at a crossroads, it seems that the CIMP (the linux answer to Adobe Photoshop) might need to be completely overhauled in it’s GUI and have some of its features removed and developed into separate tools.
The GIMP has always been too difficult for me to work with. It clearly has a lot of power in it, but that power has been unaccessible to a man who’s used to Photoshop. Here’s an excerpt from the newsforge article about this:
It is fair to say that the GIMP urgently needs a sleek, modern, and user-friendly look that complies with current interface standards. This is all the more important since other open source apps (e.g. Scribus and Inkscape) are already moving in that direction. Sharing a unified look and feel with them would make collaboration smoother from which ultimately, all programs could benefit.
I have heard about Gentoo a few times, but I always wrote it off as an unnecessary distribution until today. Thanks to reading the Gentoo ‘about’ page (Gentoo Linux — About Gentoo Linux) I’m beginning to realize that Gentoo Linux might be my next distribution to try. In fact, maybe sometime next week I might switch over. If I do I’ll keep y’all posted on how that works. Here’s one of the things that really hooked me from the Gentoo site:
Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else — whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo Linux a metadistribution.
In a late episode of Linux Today there’s a reference to “SCO’s ‘death spiral.’” The cranky bastard of open-source is finally biting the dust.
excerpt:
How the mighty have fallen. From an early Linux advocate to open-source pariah, SCO Group, under the leadership of bellicose CEO Darl McBride, has turned into nothing but a lawsuit and a prayer…”
Hardware Zone.com reports that PCstats.com has released a new “beginners guide to Linux.” I’ve only read a little of it so far, but if you’re just starting out with linux I recommend you get all the help you can and read this article.
If anybody wants to read it in it’s entirety and comment on it I’d be grateful.