Tremulous Release Date Set

Cancel your date this Friday: The Tremulous stand-alone is coming out! (March 31st).... and then, when you're done cancelling your date, check out the promo video the Tremulous team has posted:High QualityLow Quality(Thanks PlanetQuake!)UPDATE: Tremulous has been released! Get it n...

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Ubuntu 6.04 Dapper Drake Preview - Part I

A few nights ago I decided to take the plunge - I finally upgrade to Dapper. The latest release of XGL and compiz which include tons of bug fixes and enhancements pushed me over the edge. I had XGL running on Breezy, but the only package for the latest version of XGL I could find didn't work, and I was too lazy to build it from scratch. So I pondered - Was it time for me to upgrade to Dapper?Anyways, after changing my /etc/apt/sources.list file and dist-upgrading overnight, I was greeted to the usual NVIDIA driver breakage - A simple reinstall of the drivers and I was off to the races!Here's some first impressions:There's now a low-diskspace notification that pops up in the bottom-right corner of your screen when any of your partitions is getting low on space. (ie. I need to clean out my home...

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Next-Gen Linux Game Roundup

If you thought the Linux gaming world consisted of nethack, pp-racer, BZFlag, and well... fortune, you were wrong. Here's some next-gen Linux games that'll definitely make some waves:TA SpringI used to be fairly into Total Annihilation back in the day. It was one of the last real-time strategy games that I really spent a lot of time with. Well, someone has created a fully 3D RTS engine who's current goal is to run the content from Total Annihilation. In other words, it's a 3D remake of TA, but it also has the capability to run brand-new content and serve as an engine for new RTS games. The first major release of the Linux port was made a few...

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Linux.com GNOME 2.14 Review

Linux.com has posted their review of GNOME 2.14. It's not a terrible review by any means, but it misses some cool new features. Yes, Yelp is new and improved and there's tons of speed increases, but here's some missed features you should know about:Deskbar is now a part of GNOME 2.14! Deskbar is a panel applet that's basically the mystical "type something in and I'll do what you want" field. It'll search Google, your hard disk, your documents, and everything else for whatever you type in... and it's super extensible. (Check out the Deskbar section over here for a screenshot that explains it all.)Epiphany has been decked out with some nice features like bookmark tagging, integration with Liferea and other RSS feedreaders, and "zeroconf" bookmarks (the ability to share/browse shared bookmarks...

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GIMP Fork?

NewsForge has an interesting article on how it might be time to start a fork of the GIMP... The GIMP is Linux's (and the rest of the free software world's) defacto image manipulation program. It's features rival those of Adobe Photoshop in many areas, but as the article says, it's interface just isn't quite there.I've wondered why the UI has never really changed, and they shed some light on the answer to that question in the article. Check it o...

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GCC Security Updates - Ohhh the Irony...

Ubuntu's update notifier just told me about a security update for the GCC package: * gpc SECURITY UPDATE: Fix arbitrary code execution with crafted pascal source files.A compiler doing arbitrary code execution?The irony....

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