Editorials from Linux - FreeSoft

LaCie announced a new 2-bay network-attached storage solution (NAS) that delivers the ideal combination of speed and security for small businesses – the LaCie 2big NAS, design by Neil Poulton. Powered by a 2GHz processor and improved file system, the 2big NAS delivers speeds up to 100MB/s, ensuring employees can share files from any PC, Mac, or Linux workstation.

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Tags:LaCie, 2big NAS, 2GHz processor, Linux, PC, Mac, 100MB/s

Author: John Milton | Published: May 18, 2012 12:00 AM

Dirk Dashing 2: E.V.I.L Eye is an action video game for Linux, a game that is about secret agent Dirk Dashing that is back for a brand new mission. After a wicked computer virus destroys G.O.O.D's new computer network, agent Dirk Dashing must track down the cyber criminal responsible for the attack. His mission leads him to a massive global corporation, owned by one of the wealthiest men in the w [...] » read more

Tags:Dirk Dashing 2: E.V.I.L Eye, action, video, game, Linux

Author: John Milton | Published: May 17, 2012 12:00 AM

gFifteen is a graphical implementation of the old sliding puzzle game fifteen. It utilizes the gtk+-3 libraries and is targeted for the Gnu/Linux operating system. It is made available freely under the GPL-3 copyleft license. The goal of the gFifteen puzzle video game for Linux is to move the numbered tiles from a random starting position back into order from one to fifteen, with the empty space [...] » read more

Tags:gFifteen, puzzle, video, game, fifteen, Linux

Author: John Milton | Published: May 16, 2012 12:00 AM

Cube Trains is a free puzzle game in 3D developed with the Frogatto engine for Linux. Cube Trains requires the player to solve routing puzzle video game for Linux. It takes place in a dense city, as he/she starts off as a young urban planner trying to connect a city's fragmented rail lines together, and work his/her way up to become an old urban planner trying to connect a city's fragmented rail [...] » read more

Tags:Cube Trains, free, 3D, puzzle, video, game, Linux, Frogatto

Author: John Milton | Published: May 14, 2012 12:00 AM

TripleA 1.5.2.1 is a turn-based strategy video game engine for Linux. TripleA comes with multiple games and over 100 more games can be downloaded from the user community. Supports single player vs AI, hot-seat, Play by Email, and a hosted online lobby. TripleA is free software and is released under the GPL. TripleA 1.5.2.1 turn-based strategy video game engine for Linux involves various scenarios [...] » read more

Tags:TripleA, 1.5.2.1, turn-based, strategy, video, game, Linux

Author: John Milton | Published: May 11, 2012 12:00 AM

ZenGL is a cross-platform video game development library written in Pascal, designed to provide necessary functionality for rendering 2D-graphics, handling input, sound output, etc. ZenGL’s supported OS are GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOS X, iOS, and Android, its supported compilers are FreePascal, and Delphi (Bindings for: GCC C and C++ Compiler, Microsoft Visual C++; Graphics API: OpenGL, OpenG [...] » read more

Tags:ZenGL, cross-platform, video, game, Linux, 2D

Author: John Milton | Published: May 9, 2012 12:00 AM

OpenRA is a free Real Time Strategy video game engine that has been recently released a new version of OpenRA. OpenRA’s changes since the previous release include: added a new RA Map by Nukem - Tainted Peak; dropped three RA Maps - Daejeon, Mjolnir, and No Fly Zone; added a Sound Engine game setting - Sound.Engine=AL ("AL" uses OpenAL, "Null" enables no sound); warnings are shown to lobbies [...] » read more

Tags:OpenRA, free, Real Time Strategy, video, game, engine

Author: John Milton | Published: May 8, 2012 12:00 AM

Timewave is a free 2D space shooter video game written in C++ using some of the freely available SDL libraries. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX (10.4 or later). The object of the Timewave video game is to fight through the mass of enemies in each level, defeat the level boss, and finally destroy the (well-armed) enemy space station far from Earth. Timewave is a free 2D space shooter video [...] » read more

Tags:Timewave, free, 2D, space, shooter, video, game, Linux

Author: John Milton | Published: May 7, 2012 12:00 AM

A new development release of the Wine free and open source software application has been announced. This release being Wine 1.5.3 has the following changes: support for graphics bounds tracking; a number of fixes to the built-in Internet Explorer; support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger; various DirectMusic improvements; better namespace support in MSXML; various bug fixes Wine. Wine [...] » read more

Tags:Wine, 1.5.3, project, Linux, free, open source, software, application

Author: John Milton | Published: May 3, 2012 12:00 AM

It has been recently announced that Valve Software studio is actively porting both their game distribution platform Steam and a Source-engine title, Left 4 Dead 2, to Linux. Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative FPS video game for Linux, and it builds upon the cooperatively-focused gameplay of the original Left 4 Dead and uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, the same game engine used in Left 4 Dead. [...] » read more

Tags:Left 4 Dead 2, Linux, cooperative, FPS, video, game

Author: John Milton | Published: April 27, 2012 12:00 AM