Wine 1.1.2 Download
The Wine development release 1.1.2 is now available for download with features like
* Control panel improvements and new appwiz panel.
* Restructurations of state handling in Direct3D.
* Support for timer queue functions.
* Many MSXML improvements.
* Several fixes to Solaris support.
* Various bug fixes.
Download Source:
And you can find the Binary Package here
Source: Official Website (Alongwith Changelogs)
30 Free Linux Games - Download your Favorite
I have compiled here 30 free linux based game! Would love and appreciate your comments! : )
1- Tux Racer (Racing)
Tux Racer lets you take on the role of Tux the Linux Penguin as he races down steep, snow-covered mountains. Enter cups and compete to win the title! Tux Racer includes a variety of options for gameplay, including the ability to race courses in fog, at night, and under high winds.
Your journey starts as you compete on local courses. Win and you will unlock other courses and cups that will lead you to more exciting and challenging races. Only the quickest, smartest, and luckiest will win!
2- America’s Army (FPS)
Launched in July 2002 the America’s Army game, which is rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB, has become one of the most popular computer games in the world. America’s Army has penetrated contemporary culture and is one of the most recognizable game brands as a result of its unique inside perspective of the U.S. Army and its exciting gameplay.
You can order the game for free, there is no charge for the DVD but you have to pay for the shipping, handling etc which is very less.
3- Egoboo - RPG
Egoboo is an open-source action-RPG / dungeon crawling adventure! It’s like Nethack. Except it has actual graphics. And they’re 3D. And it’s in real-time. And there’s no Oracle. And you can save your characters. Egoboo is totally free, and is open source.
It has a unique mood, and is a lot of fun to play. In Egoboo, you will find heaps of loot, kill hordes of monsters, and discover many unusual places on your quest to save Lord Bishop from his imminent doom!
4- Cube (FPS)
Cube is a free single and multi player 1st person shooter game with some satisfying fast oldskool gameplay. A large variety of gameplay modes from classic SP to fast 1 on 1 MP and objective based teamplay, with a great variety of original maps to play on.
5- Flight Gear - (Flight Sim)
FlightGear is an open-source project. This means as long as you abide by the terms of the GPL license you may freely download and copy FlightGear. It features
- Over 20,000 real world airports included in the full scenery set.
- Correct runway markings and placement, correct runway and approach lighting.
- Taxiways available for many larger airports (even including the green center line lights when appropriate.)
- Sloping runways (runways change elevation like they usually do in real life.)
- Directional airport lighting that smoothly changes intensity as your relative view direction changes.
- World scenery fits on 3 DVD’s. (I’m not sure that’s a feature or a problem!) But it means we have pretty detailed coverage of the entire world.
- Accurate terrain worldwide, based on the most recently released SRTM terrain data.) 3 arc second resolution (about 90m post spacing) for North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
- Scenery includes all vmap0 lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, land cover, etc.
- Nice scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas (based on real maps) and headlights visible on major highways. This allows for realistic night VFR flying with the ability to spot towns and cities and follow roads.
- Scenery tiles are paged (loaded/unloaded) in a separate thread to minimize the frame rate hit when you need to load new areas.
6- Racer, The real deal (Racing)
Racer is a free car simulation project, using real car physics to get a realistic feeling. Cars, tracks, scenes and such can be created with relative simplicity in mind (compared to other driving simulations). The 3D and other file formats are, or should be, documented. Editors and support programs are also available to get a very flexible and expandable simulator. It uses OpenGL for rendering.
It attempts to do well at the physics section, trying to create life-like cars to emphasize car control and doesn’t cut back on realism in the interest of fun. If you’ve played Grand Prix Legends from Papyrus, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
7- NetHack (Open source RPG)
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly.
Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender.
8- BzFlag (Action / Tank game - Multiplayer)
BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game. The name originates from “Battle Zone capture the Flag”. It runs on Irix, Linux, *BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. It’s one of the most popular games ever on Silicon Graphics machines and continues to be developed and improved to this day. It’s one of the most popular open source games ever.
9- TORCS - (Racing)
TORCS is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform. It runs on Linux (x86, AMD64 and PPC), FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows. The source code of TORCS is licensed under the GPL (”Open Source”).
10- NeverBall (Arcade)
Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill. Neverball is known to run under Linux, Win2K/XP, FreeBSD, and OSX. Hardware accelerated OpenGL is required. A 500MHz processor is recommended.
11- Frozen Bubble (Arcade)
Colorful 3D rendered penguin animations, 100 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, nights and nights of 2p/3p/4p/5p game over LAN or Internet, a level-editor, 3 professional quality digital soundtracks, 15 stereo sound effects, 8 unique graphical transition effects, 8 unique logo eye-candies.
More than ever, you really need this game.
12- Chromium B.S.U. (Arcade Shooter)
Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter. You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Your ship has a small fleet of robotic fighters which you control from the relative safety of the Chromium vessel.
wattOS - A lightweight Ubuntu-based operating system
wattOS, a new lightweight Ubuntu-based operating system has been released. wattOS is a very fast Ubuntu clone, powered by the Openbox window manager, a standards compliant, fast, lightweight and extensible window manager. It runs on low power computers and recycled systems keeping you working and playing with all the features you expect.
wattOS menu utilizes FBPanel to give gnome like menus with a very small memory footprint. Excellent and fast file manager (PCMANFM) - almost instant opening speed, easy configuration of Openbox and themes, Easy windows network shares browsing, Custom right mouse button menus that include easy changing of your wallpaper and much more. Read the rest of this entry
Download NVIDIA Gelato 2.2 For Linux / Windows
NVIDIA Gelato 2.2 has been released for download for both Windows and Linux OS.. Nvidia Gelato 2.2 is a great rendering software that allows anyone with an NVIDIA GPU to create stunning images fast. Basically, Gelato was designed to create 3D Visual effects and animation scenes in feature films including film & broadcast, CAD, architecture etc.
NVIDIA Gelato Zone is an online community for artists and animators. This virtual gathering place provides you the latest information about Gelato (NVIDIA’s final-frame rendering software) and lets you share information and images with other users. Nvidia Gelato is a hardware-accelerated, non-real time and you can create images at a very high quality.
CodeLite IDE v1.0RC01 - Download for Linux, MAC OSX and Windows
The CodeLite team released the CodeLite v1.0RC01 (An open source project that target itself to become the best open source IDE for C/C++) which includes a bundle app for MacOS 10.5.2. CodeLite is a powerful open-source, cross platform code editor for the C/C++ programming languages (regulary tested on Windows XP sp2, (K)Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04, Fedora Core 6, Debian lenny/sid and Mac OSX 10.5.2). CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the GPL license. It uses a sophisticated, yet intuitive interface which allows user to easy create and build complex projects.
DD-WRT v24 Download
DD-WRT v24 has been released for Linux with a lot of new features, fixed bugs and now it’s supporting the whole Ubiquity line of wireless products using all available features the hardware offers. DD-WRT is actually a 3rd party developed firmware for many ieee802.11a/b/g/h/n wireless routers based on a Broadcom or Atheros chip reference design.
DD-WRT v24 now also support new hardware platforms like X86, Avila Gateworks, Cambria Gateworks, Atheros Soc, Compex, Seano, Fonera, Ubquiti.
10 Best Linux Audio players
Featuring 10 of the Best Linux Audio players. Would appreciate your feedback through comments :>
1- Rhythmbox:
Rhythmbox is an great audio application for linux. It’s free of cost and it can play and organize digial music easily. It’s inspiration comes from Apple iTunes and it worked pretty amazing under the GNOME Desktop while using the GStreamer media framework.
Rythmbox Features:
* Easy to use music browser
* Searching and sorting
* Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
* Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
* Playlists
* Display audio visualizations
* Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
* Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the internet
* Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
* Automatically download audio podcasts
* Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and Jamendo
Official Rythmbox Website
Download Rythmbox:
2- GMPC (Gnome Music Player Client):GMPC is a nice frontend for Music Player Daemon. It’s fast and easy to use, while still making optimal use of all the functions in mpd.
Features:
* Metadata support, it can show artist image, album art, lyrics, etc.
* Plugin support.
* Fast, gmpc is optimized to work even on low end machines and slow networks.
* Profile support, easily use gmpc with multiple mpd’s.
Download
Screenshots
Official Website
3- XMMS (The X Multimedia System):
XMMS (X MultiMedia System) is a great multimedia player which works on almost all systems but it has some special items which only works in Linux. XMMS can play media files such as MP3, MOD’s, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. It’s a free software audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating
systems.
Reasons Why You Should Learn Linux
I know most of you reading this post are windows users and i am also using windows but there are some really good valid reasons why learning Linux is a good idea. But first i dont their will be anyone who dont know what Linux is. Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system. Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development. I know Windows offers alot more features then Linux but still after reading this you will have a different opinion doesn’t matter whether you shift to Linux or keep using windows.
The first reason why i will prefer learning Linux is that it does not crash like windows. It is proven that its a reliable operating system although these days Linux-based systems have been used as servers and embedded systems. Even High-visibility Web sites such as Google use Linux-based systems.
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