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Warsow your Linux online first-person shooter game

If you love first-person shooter games, Warsow just might be the thing for you. It is based on the novel “Chasseur de bots” which is a French E-novel. (You could read it in English...

Why not try Korn shell?

By default, most of the distros I’ve tried have bash or the Bourne again shell installed in them. Anyhow I was reading an article on Linux.com about korn shell and it seems like a good...

LXDE - another lightweight desktop environment

A link to the LXDE site was on del.icio.us and I just had to click it because in this day and age, I sometimes get tired of eye candy. I like pretty desktop environments, surely but there are times...

Pandora the Linux gaming handheld console

If you love games so much, why not keep an eye on Pandora? It’s the size of a DS but it has a QWERTY keyboard and gaming buttons. It will have a customized Debian-based Linux distro and so...

Of bash, history and you

The command line — where you type commands and do other funky stuff is sometimes a seemingly different area altogether. It takes time getting used to but it’s worth it. There are a lot...

Review: Hackett and Bankwell Issue #1

I was lucky to have received my copy of Hackett and Bankwell Issue 1 this week. I saw that there’s a huge penguin on the cover. Yay! Hooray for penguins!:D It’s an interesting way to...

Surf the ‘net on the terminal via w3m

Looking for a way to surf the ‘net on the terminal? Use w3m! I’ve used w3m time and again because it’s quaint that way.;) I usually use it as an Emacs macro/extension. It’s...

Check out the Ubuntu Cheatsheet

Get the Ubuntu Cheatsheet from FOSSWire. Really important commands especially for newbies. They even included sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg is included in the cheatsheet. Plus keyboard...

Wondering about Mezzo for the desktop

I’ve always been a big fan of Gnome as well as the minimalist Ratpoison. (I know, it’s weird. But they serve different purposes for me.) Also, most of the Linux distributions include a...

What are your Linux habits?

A blog entry called the The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users got my attention. Some of the things mentioned in the entry were taught to me by my friends and contacts as soon as they learned...