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Open Source FPS Game 'Red Eclipse' 1.0 Released

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | No comments |

Red Eclipse is a free and open source first person shooter game for Linux based on Cube Engine 2. The game have both single player and multi-player game modes and is a fork of discontinued game Blood Frontier.

FPS, Games, Red Eclipse

Thunderbird Conversations Addon Enables Gmail Style Threaded Conversation View

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | No comments |

Thunderbird Conversations 2.0 is an add-on for Thunderbird 3.3 that enables Gmail style threaded conversations view. The add-on is currently in alpha stage but it is quite stable so far.

Addons, Applications, Extensions, Mail Clients, Thunderbird

Steel Storm Episode II 'Burning Retribution' Preview Video

Monday, March 14, 2011 | No comments |

Classic top down arcade shooter Steel Storm is all geared up for release of Steel Storm Episode 2 'Burning Retribution'. The game is available to pre-order and users will get access to beta build as a bonus.

Game Previews, Games, Steel Storm, Videos

Animated Dash Resizing [New Unity Video]

Monday, March 14, 2011 | No comments |

N J Patel, from Unity development team has tweeted about a new upcoming feature in Unity - dynamic resizing of dash with nice smooth animation effect when a search keyword is entered.

11.04, Natty Narwhal, Ubuntu, Unity, Videos

Ryzom MMORPG Removes Game Limits, Almost Free to Play Now

Sunday, March 13, 2011 | No comments |

Ryzom 3D MMORPG for Linux has removed lots of limits and caps for new players who want to play the game without a paid subscription. Instead, the developers have chose to keep a Level limit of 125 beyond which new players will stop getting experience points.

Games, MMORPG, Ryzom

Alien Arena 7.51 Released

Saturday, March 12, 2011 | No comments |

A new version of popular multi-player game Alien Arena has been released today that brings new fixes and features to the game.

Alien Arena, Games, Releases

New Chrome Extension Brings Support for All Linux Download Managers

Thursday, March 10, 2011 | No comments |

Download Assistant Extension for Chrome/Chromium finally brings much requested feature for Linux - download manager support. The extension until now supported only Windows but a new update yesterday has brought in Linux support too.

Addons, Applications, Chrome, Chromium, Download Assistant, Extensions, Web Browsers

Firefox 4 Release Candidate is Here

Thursday, March 10, 2011 | No comments |

Mozilla team has finally rolled out a release candidate of long awaited next generation web browser Firefox 4.

Firefox, Firefox 4, Releases, Web Browsers

Bye Bye Ubuntu Netbook Edition

Wednesday, March 09, 2011 | No comments |

There will be no separate Ubuntu Netbook Edition in Ubuntu 11.04 and onwards as it is being merged into what we can call simply 'Ubuntu' for the sake of simplicity and consistency.

11.04, Natty Narwhal, Netbook, Ubuntu, Unity

Ubuntu 11.10 to be Called 'Oneiric Ocelot'

Monday, March 07, 2011 | No comments |

The next version of Ubuntu - 11.10 will be known as 'Oneiric Ocelot' as announced by Mark Shuttleworth on his blog.

11.10, Codenames, Oneiric Ocelot, Ubuntu