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Captain Holetooth – Explorative 2D Platform Game for Kids
Captain Holetooth is a small, action / adventure, platform game targeted at young children, primarily 4-8 year olds. The main goal of the game is to have fun. Captain Holetooth is a pirate who lives in a rich world with
Read moreEssential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor
nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.
Read moreReview: The Binary Times Podcast
I recently authored a detailed review of the Linux podcast scene, grilling 25 podcasts targeted at Linux and open source enthusiasts. Like any roundup of this type, it’s almost inevitable that a few podcasts missed my radar. One of these is The Binary Times Podcast. Apologies to the hosts of the show.
Read moreIngres – enterprise relational database management system
Ingres is a commercially supported, open-source SQL relational database management system intended to support large commercial and government applications. It is a database that combines the flexibility of open source with the business class availability and reliability of commercial DBMS
Read moreK3b – optical disk burning application
K3b (KDE Burn, Baby, Burn!) is a free software CD and DVD authoring application for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems designed for KDE. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks such as creating an
Read moreSDLMAME – MAME emulator
SDL is a port of the popular emulator MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game’s ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a
Read moreK9Copy – DVD backup and DVD authoring software
K9Copy is a free, open source, DVD backup and DVD authoring program. This tabbed tool allows copying one or more titles from a DVD-9 to a DVD-5. It is an equivalent to DVDShrink which runs under Windows. K9Copy can either
Read moreircII – IRC and ICB client
The ircII program is a full screen, termcap based interface to Internet Relay Chat, running in a text-only shell-based environment. This application gives full access to all of the normal IRC functions, plus a variety of additional options. This version
Read moreMESS – Multi Emulator Super System
The Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) emulates the inner components of computers, consoles, calculators, and even chess computers. It allows modern PCs to run software which was originally written for the emulated machines. It is a very powerful emulator. MESS
Read moreIntel C++ Compiler Professional
Intel C++ Compiler Professional Edition offers support for creating multi-threaded applications. The Professional Edition offers the breadth of advanced optimization, multi-threading, and processor support that includes automatic processor dispatch, vectorization, auto-parallelization, OpenMP, data prefetching, and loop unrolling, along with highly
Read moreMacAnova – statistical analysis and matrix algebra software
MacAnova is a free, open source, interactive statistical analysis and matrix algebra multi-platform program. MacAnova has many capabilities, including the design of experiments. While MacAnova is not as feature-laden as R, it has considerable strengths including the analysis of variance
Read moreFreeArc – combines best 7-zip and RAR features
FreeArc is a free, modern general-purpose, open source file archiver. This software runs on either a command line or a graphical user interface. The main advantage of FreeArc is that it offers fast but efficient compression combined with a good
Read moreSpagoBI – business intelligence suite
SpagoBI is an open source flexible business intelligence suite. It is a comprehensive suite providing many analytical capabilities supported by more than twenty analytical and operational engines. The whole range of business intelligence capabilities is covered by many engines to
Read moreEasy Ways to Create Screencasts
A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration. Screencasting software takes a series of screenshots of a running application, recording the user’s actions, and creating a video file.
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