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HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games Part 8 2007-12-10 15:20:00 Last continuation... Fish Fillet - Puzzle Game Fish Fillets is strictly a puzzle game. The goal in every of the seventy levels is always the same: find a safe way out. The fish utter witty remarks about their surroundings, the various inhabitants of their underwater realm quarrel among themselves or comment on the efforts of your fish. The whole game is accompanied by quiet, comforting music. # ... Games

HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games Part 7 2007-12-10 15:18:00 Continuation... QAscade - Addictive Puzzle Game Qascade is a port of the simple yet addictive and enjoyable puzzle game that came with the Psion Revo PDA. # yum install qascade Chess - 3D Chess Game Beautifull 3D rendered chess game using Ogre. Notice that this needs a powerful 3D card to be playable on a radeon 92xx or intel 9xx integrated graphics this is not playable! # yum install chess ... Games

HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games Part 6 2007-12-10 15:13:00 Continuation... Glaxium - 3D Space Ship Shooting Game Glaxium is an OpenGL-based space-ship "shoot-em-up" styled game. It is designed to provide the same feel as the old 2D games of that type, but with 3D for the special effects. # yum install glaxium Sirius - Reversi type Game Sirius is a program for playing the game of reversi. The program includes an AI (Artificial Intelligence) opponent ... Games

HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games Part 5 2007-12-10 15:08:00 Continuation... SuperTuxKart 3D go-kart racing game for kids with several famous OpenSource mascots participating. Race as Tux against 3 computer players in many different fun race courses (Standard race track, Dessert, Mathclass, etc). Full information on how to add your own race courses is included. During the race you can pick up powerups such as: (homing) missiles, magnets and portable ... Games

HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games Part 4 2007-12-10 15:01:00 Continuation. AstroMenace - Hardcore 3D Space Shooter Space is a vast area, an unbounded territory where it seems there is a room for everybody, but reversal of fortune put things differently. The hordes of hostile creatures crawled out from the dark corners of the universe, craving to conquer your homeland. Their force is compelling, their legions are interminable. However, humans didn't give ... Games

HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games Part 3 2007-12-10 14:55:00 Continuation... SuperTuxKart 3D go-kart racing game for kids with several famous OpenSource mascots participating. Race as Tux against 3 computer players in many different fun race courses (Standard race track, Dessert, Mathclass, etc). Full information on how to add your own race courses is included. During the race you can pick up powerups such as: (homing) missiles, magnets and portable ... Games

HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games Part 2 2007-12-10 14:52:00 Continuation... Frozen Bubble Network Game # yum install frozen-bubble-server Maelstrom - Space Combat Game Maelstrom is a space combat game, originally ported from the Macintosh platform. Brave pilots get to dodge asteroids and fight off other ships at the same time. # yum install Maelstrom Stratagus - Strategy Gaming Engine Game Stratagus is a free cross-platform real-time strategy ... Games

HowTo: Thunar File Manager 2007-12-06 03:51:00 Once in a while, we search the web for new tools and linux project that we can use and be more productive and effective with our daily server and desktop activities. Here's another linux X utility that we can make use on doing X file management. Thunar software aims to provide a simple, fast and easy to use alternative file manager. Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop ...

HowTo: LeafPad Extremely Fast Text File Editor 2007-12-05 05:17:00 Leafpad is a extremely simple and extremely fast GTK+ lightweight text editor that emphasizes on speed and simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. Leafpad is simple to use, is easily compiled, requires few libraries, and starts up quickly. Leafpad offers an interface similar to Notepad. Leafpad aims ...

HowTo: View Bzipped file On-The-Fly 2007-12-05 03:16:00 A quick blog entry post. Here's how to view text files compressed by linux command bzip2. If you wish to know more command usage of bzip2 binary, click here. Viewing of bzipped compressed files can be done in many ways. This blog entry would cover doing this approach by using bzcat, bzmore and bzless linux binaries. Bzcat, bzmore and bzless binaries are part of bzip2 rpm package. Bzcat ...

HowTo: TuxPaint Drawing Program Installation 2007-12-05 01:54:00 Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK). Tuxpaint combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Tuxpaint drawing program encourages kids' drawing creativity and experimentation. Allowing children to be ...

HowTo: InkScape Drawing Program Installation 2007-12-05 01:33:00 Due to high demand, this very nice vector-based drawing program has been SourceForge.net's Project of the Month a month ago. What is Inkscape? Inkscape is a vector-based drawing program, like CorelDraw® or Adobe Illustrator® from the proprietary software world, and Sketch or Karbon14 from the free software world. It is free software, distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public License ...

HowTo: Adobe Flash Player on Fedora 8 2007-12-05 00:07:00 Here's a two-step Adobe Flash Player installation on Fedora 8 box. From an old blog entry here of installing Adobe Flash Player from Fedora Core 6, here's a quick entry on how to install the latest Adobe Flash player on Fedora 8. If you are using a non-Fedora distro, simply visit this site to download your corresponding installer package. And for Fedora 8 users, proceed below with caution. ...

HowTo: Install Digital Comic Reader 2007-12-04 15:31:00 Finally, a cross-platform, open-source CBR and CBZ reader! Read your favorite scanned comic books and graphic novels with Comical's absurdly easy GUI and in-your-face double page display! Introducing Comical - Open source digital comic book reader What is digital comic anyway? Digital comic is an online versions of your favorite comics from the original printed comic papers. Nifty Features: ...

HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games 2007-12-04 06:46:00 One hundred and thirteen Fedora linux games! Yes, you read it right, Linux game lovers, meet 113 Fedora graphical games. Here are several compiled list of graphical games available from Fedora Gaming project. These Fedora graphical games can be easily installed using RedHat/Fedora yum installation process. The games are all available from Fedora game repositories. Games listed here includes ... Games