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Fun arcade and action games for Linux

Mini-lookup to some small fun Linux games!

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Opera Mini 4 released!

Opera has released Opera Mini 4. I’ve been using Opera Mini with my (old and cheap) Sony Ericsson z530i, and gotta say - I love it.

Leopard 10.5.1 seed provides buttload of fixes

Ars Technica has a report about newest Leopard build.

BSD, The Humble UNIX Family

Back in the beginning of the operating systems history, UNIX was the king of the scene. For the general public, UNIX might be the best known from Jurassic Park (“It’s a UNIX system! I know this!”). Although many use and know only Microsoft’s Windows operating system, UNIX (and alike) operating systems are still alive and well, and many might not realize they actually use UNIX systems every day - Internet literally runs on UNIX(-alike) systems. BSD is one operating system family that originates from the original UNIX source code.

BSD girls

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Silence for a month, going to Japan

It’s been slow news weeks for Kahvipapu. I’ve been quite busy with work and setting up vacation trip. For next month, Kahvipapu will stay silent as I go to Japan for a month (Leaving tomorrow). Maybe I’ll bring an article or two with me about some strange Japanese gadgets…

Linux gaming: Another top list

Someone else has been digging Linux games too, check out Top 21 Linux Games Of 2007.

Peugeot converts 20 000 desktops to Linux

Novell scores a big customer as Peugeot is slated to become one of the few large scale conversions to desktop Linux. Peugeot will convert 20 000 desktops to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and will purhase 2500 SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers.

The usual claim in conversions like this is the training ‘because Linux is so much harder than Windows’. Well, gladly Peugeot seems to prove it wrong: “The new desktops do not require any special training, except for a quick, double page set of explanations”. Congratulations to Peugeot for dumping Windows in 20k workstations! I can hear chairs flying at Redmond…

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch on Linux

Tips and tricks to get Half-Life 2: Deathmatch running on Linux.

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No more Trash can

I’m running Gutsy Gibbon and noticed that Trash can naming is changed. It’s now named as Deleted Items instead of Trash

SCO Loses, Novell owns the UNIX copyrights

Now this is big - the court as officially ruled that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights.

[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.

This basically means SCO is screwed. They own a lot of money for Novell. And IBM’s nazguls will tear apart whatever is left of SCO.

For those who don’t know what this is about, SCO is one scumbag company trying to play random lawsuit lottery to get rich. Here’s the lawsuit in a nutshell:

• In 2003, SCO sued IBM for 5 billion dollars, claiming IBM had leaked UNIX source code to Linux
• IBM, along with open source community, asked for proof (which SCO didn’t give)
• SCO showed some proof - which turned out to be BSD source code
• SCO started demanding 699$ license from Linux users because “they owned it”
• SCO claims Linux contains “millions of lines” UNIX source code.
• SCO claims they own all original IBM code for AIX because it’s derivative work of UNIX
• Novell stepped forward and said “not so fast, *we* own the UNIX copyrights”
• SCO claimed “no you don’t”
• Novell said “yes we do, you’re only a licensee for it”
• And as of today - SCO has still failed to show a single infringing line of code

Groklaw has more (and better) information about the SCO saga.