Truesong Tech: "I recently set up Arch Linux (which is awesome, by the way) on my laptop, and noticed a bit of a problem... despite my resolution, 1680x1050, which usually makes fonts look tiny, all of my system fonts were huge."
Adam Williamson, Mandriva's Community Manager, has just announced the availability of the second alpha release of Mandriva 2008. Mandriva is one of the hottest Linux distros, almost always in the top ten most viewed sites at DistroWatch.com.
Released last Friday, the latest version of KDE has hit the Linux world. After the release of Trolltech's QT 4, it was only a matter of time before the newest version of KDE would come out. Sporting some glitz and glammer from current distros of Linux, the KDE 4 interface is welcome advancement in the desktop world.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a hard-core, multiplayer, first-person shooter that will run natively on the Linux operating system. Built off a modified Doom III Engine, Quake Wars was released late 2007, and it is the favorite game of the LinuxHow2 crowd. In the following review, we will show some screenshots, share our thoughts, and give you a few tips on installing this game on your favorite Linux distro.
The ISO community will hold a vote for OOXML around Feb 29th 2008 in Geneva. These are the folks that set industry standards for nearly everything from how CDs are made to the equipment used to harvest grain. On that faithful day they will be voting whether OOXML should become a standard in the PC world for XML or not.
Earlier reports that the OLPC had teamed up with Microsoft to create a true dual-boot Laptop featuring both Linux and Windows have been revealed as false.