Linux and Free software

Linux picture remix. Wallpapers are a nice way to promote concepts. Linux is a great idea that is taking the computer industry towards a different approach. Free and open source, check it out.

Linux is a free operating system just like Windows or Mac OS. The great thing about Linux is that it is completely free to download and use. I am shocked when I see people going into computer stores and paying hundreds of dollars for Windows. Most people do not know about Linux because there is no single company behind the project. It is a community effort and many individuals, companies and organizations are involved to bring you this amazing OS. Anyone can download the operating system for free and get access to thousands of free software. The Linux community is growing and the programs are high quality as well. Because Linux does not advertise as extensively as Windows or Mac computers it is sometimes difficult for the average user to learn about Linux. If you want to see a quick and easy video of what Linux looks like click here. A more visual feature rich Linux looks like this. There are also some nice screenshots that you can check out. The great thing about Linux is that you can customize almost anything about it and make it look like your own artistic creation. Don't listen to large companies that are trying to put down Linux because they have their own bottom line in mind. They don't want people to learn about Linux because they would not be able to charge the average person so much money for an operating system. You be the judge for yourself and give Linux a try. There are many different Linux distributions to choose from but a great one to start of is Ubuntu Linux. It's fast, easy, intuitive and has lots of support from a great community of people.

PlayDeb is a nice website that lists games for your Ubuntu Linux. A lot of people are new to Linux and want to know more about games. This site is easy to use and you can find some pretty cool games to spend your weekend on. Gaming for Linux is improving and with more people switching to this operating system more great games will be launched. Check out PlayDeb.net and start gaming on Linux.

It seems that a lot of people are spending most of their time in browsers surfing the web. Here are the top three web browsers to use on your Linux machine.





Google Chrome - quick, efficient and lightweight

Firefox - popular browser and great features

Opera - a great interface and intuitive


Are you fond of any other browser? Let us know which browsers you are using on Linux and what you like about them.

XBMC is a great media center application for your computer. It is free and open source software and licensed under GNU GPL. If you have a lot of pictures, videos, music you can all have easy access to them through XBMC media center. This application works for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. There are plenty of skins to choose from and the default one looks pretty amazing. You can add additional functionality through add ons and scripts. XBMC looks great on your computer or your living room TV and is a nice way to access your digital files. If you want additional information check out their website at XBMC. Definitely great software that people should have.

Sabayon is a Gentoo based Linux distribution created by Fabio Erculiani and many other developers. Its slogan is; open your source, open your mind. It is a stylish and cute Linux distribution that has been getting a lot of attention recently and its community has been growing as well. You can get Sabayon with Gnome or Kde and a live DVD is also available so that you can try out the operating system before installing it. Sabayon looks great and comes with many applications such as Compiz, XBMC media center, VLC media player and many others. If you want a great looking and stable Linux distribution head over to Sabayon website to learn more.

Sabayon Linux.

This is our Christmas roundup of great torrent sites for you to enjoy. Sit back drink some eggnog and check out the cool features and content these sites have to offer. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. If you know of another great torrent site just list it in the comments section below. Thanks.







Mininova - The Ultimate Bittorent Source

Demonoid - Private but you can download the latest torrents even without registration

ScrapeTorrent - Searches several popular torrent sites

SeedPeer - It has a verified torrent section

ISOhunt - Comprehensive bittorent search

Torrent Reactor - The most active torrents on the web

BTjunkie - Large bittorent search

Torrent Scan - Another search engine of popular torrent sites

Sumo Torrent - Fresh torrent source

Torrentz - Nice bittorent search

Torrent Box - A very good source

Fenopy - Yet another site for torrents

Share Reactor - Indexes bittorent and edonkey P2P

Torrent Matrix - Latest bittorent files

Bitenova - Add comments and rate torrents

Spynova - Indexes torrents

Urban Terror is an amazing first person shooter. It is completely free to download and has many dedicated followers. However, there is a problem in Ubuntu 9.10 with the audio. The sound cuts out, the game becomes choppy and later on you cannot exit the game. The application freezes and you need to force quit. To fix this problem go into Applications, Accessories and click on Terminal. Copy and paste this line and press enter.

    sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

Follow the instructions to install pulse audio and then type Exit to leave the terminal. That's it. Enjoy the game and have fun. Check out Urban Terror at their site.

Demonoid is a popular and amazing torrent website. It is finally back after months of being offline. Hopefully the new administrator will make the Demonoid site as notorious as it was before. Click here to visit the Demonoid tracker site.

Finally Google has released their Chrome browser for Linux. Chrome is a great web browser that tries to improve on security, speed and stability. The user interface is simple and lean. Go to the Chrome site to learn more and to download the browser.


Google Chrome website.

The Internet is full of rumors that Google will be releasing its Chrome Operating System pretty soon. Supposedly in the next couple of weeks. This is great news for the techies like us that want to tinker and try out new software. Chrome OS will probably be in beta and will not be ready for production machines but nevertheless I am excited to see what Google will come up with. Google has huge financing behind them and it is nice to see such a large company supporting Linux and creating their own operating system based on it. This puts Google in direct competition with Microsoft Windows. Google Chrome will initially be for netbooks but the potential here is amazing. If they create a great product desktop computers will be running Google Chrome OS too. The question is if Google will be able to create something great. The Linux community already has successful distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Mandriva, Sabayon etc. Will Google be able to create a better product? I hope so and can't wait to try out Google Chrome OS soon.