I know some other commentators, in their official capacities, have played up Suse’s 10.1 OpenLinux release as if it were the greatest thing since pre-sliced bread. I’ve been playing around on it a bit, either in preperation for a PCBurn article or just as a server replacemenent for the old Dell quad Xeon box.
So […]

Armies of Japanese robots running the open source Linux operating system will now be marching through a town near you!
Or maybe not. But General Robotix has developed programmable software that runs on Linux for their towering 14 inch doom-bot.
How long until their (tiny) army is unleashed on the world?

Robot backers turn to Linux

I’ve written a review of Infinite Dungeons for Neverwinter Nights over at PCBurn.  If you’re into computer RPGs give the review a look and check if it’s a game to consider.
Neverwinter Nights Infinite Dungeons Review @ PCBurn

Even though free software (in the freedom-to-modify-and-distribute sense) comes along with all the tools and utliities anyone would need to modify or distribute their own version of it, it’s apparently not “African” enough for this company.
I think the author misses the valuable point that free software doesn’t have boundries (as hackneyed as that is to […]

Nicholas Negroponte was previewing a working model of the 100$(USD) laptop for every child laptop.  Apparently it stole the MITX spotlight.. but with a feature rich laptop coming in at 100$, you can probably imagine why.
Now… why they can’t crank these puppies out mass-production style and use the sales to subsidize the cost on the […]

Although the author of the below misses the fact that P in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PERL) doesn’t stand for PHP (or didn’t.. the P is now interchangable PERL/PHP/Python) we’ll skip that for the moment.
Instead, we’ll focus on his vague allegations that Apache is only so-so, but the best of the bunch (which I’ll heartily […]

Atari isn’t just stopping updates to NWN.  That would be understandable even with the modest sales it still offers with NWN2 around the corner.
The low blow proffered in the title, though, is their cancelling of all premium content modules.  Premium content modules which cost little to produce and must be reaping a fairly good return.
Really, […]

It’s been a while, but I’ve finally dusted off my writing keyboard and cracked out the first in a weekly series of Linux gaming articles.  First up, I’ve got Triplex Invaders, Maniadrive, and Lost Labyrinth.
If you’re interested in Linux games, PCBurn will be running a couple of game reviews on commercial releases in the near […]

Honestly, Cold War is one of the best Beta pieces of software I’ve ever been involved with.  The game’s a treat, and there aren’t all that many bugs in the software.
None of the bugs I have run into have affected gameplay about a third of the way through.  Kudos go to the folks at Linux […]

Bitch and ye shall receive, apparently.  Directly after complaining that game outlets aren’t free enough with those pre- or review products and PCBurn I got accepted on the latest LGP Beta test.  So naturally I’ll post about the experience when the game is actually released.
Since it *is* in fact a Beta, I’ll keep mum on […]