Pingus is a free Lemmings-like game covered under the GNU GPL. It features currently 22 playable levels and runs under a wide variety of operating systems (Linux, Windows, etc.)
I was a real fan of Lemmings back in the early 1990s. But Pingus graphics are better. The staging area, penguins, the tools and the actions are beautiful and they have a techie theme to them. One example is in the little propellers used to float penguins down. In Lemmings these used to be parachutes.
Anyway do try it out. It runs pretty stable and is great for children and adults alike. Install it using synaptic or "apt-get install pingus" as root and then launch it.
Be prepared for 1 thing though. Make sure you have plenty of time before you start playing. It can be addictive.
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Monday, 14 July 2008
Compiz on Debian Etch
After a year of researching Metisse and drooling at Compiz and Beryl videos on Youtube. I've finally got Compiz Fusion for KDE working on my trusty Dell Inspiron 510m. Yes, its 4 years old and only has 512MB of ram. But, it works great! Not only that, but I also managed to install it on my colleague Caleb's IBM Thinkpad X60. A first time installing Linux on an IBM machine. It was really smooth.
Compiz installs easily and works out of the box. Just add the repo below, update and select the compiz-fusion-kde package.
By the way, has anyone out there tried virtualbox or xen on an IBM Thinkpad X60? That's next on the to do list. Any suggestions or help would be great!
Compiz installs easily and works out of the box. Just add the repo below, update and select the compiz-fusion-kde package.
- http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-etch/desktopfx/stable/ ./
By the way, has anyone out there tried virtualbox or xen on an IBM Thinkpad X60? That's next on the to do list. Any suggestions or help would be great!
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Asus eee pc
I had a chance to play with the eee pc last week. Thanks very much to my colleague Rosalind.
Its a really neat device. The touchpad button is really stiff so its hard to use it comfortably but other than that, its great!. No complaints at all and hey, Its Linux!
It could do with some fine tuning to reduce the space taken up. I wouldn't use it as a workhorse so OpenOffice is a bit overkill. Better to replace it with Gnumeric and Abiword.
One really useful feature is that it allows a factory reset just by pressing F9 when rebooting. Everything is restored to its original setting from the hidden partition. This makes the device a prime device for testing software packages and maybe even installing other OSes.
Now if we could only get access to that hidden partition.... what wonders that would hold.
By the way, did I mention that I'm the first in company to recover a crashed eee pc? Yay!
Its a really neat device. The touchpad button is really stiff so its hard to use it comfortably but other than that, its great!. No complaints at all and hey, Its Linux!
It could do with some fine tuning to reduce the space taken up. I wouldn't use it as a workhorse so OpenOffice is a bit overkill. Better to replace it with Gnumeric and Abiword.
One really useful feature is that it allows a factory reset just by pressing F9 when rebooting. Everything is restored to its original setting from the hidden partition. This makes the device a prime device for testing software packages and maybe even installing other OSes.
Now if we could only get access to that hidden partition.... what wonders that would hold.
By the way, did I mention that I'm the first in company to recover a crashed eee pc? Yay!
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Interesting howtos for Debian
Found this site quite useful
Debian Sarge installation - Apache2, Postfix, MySQL 5.x, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, proftp, and Bind (Chroot) all on a stable Debian server installed from a NetInstall CD, and with Backports enabled (Selective)
Debian Sarge installation - Apache2, Postfix, MySQL 5.x, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, proftp, and Bind (Chroot) all on a stable Debian server installed from a NetInstall CD, and with Backports enabled (Selective)
How to upgrade from Sarge to Etch
Making Krusader the default File Manager for KDE in Debian
I've been looking for a way to switch my default file manager for a long time.
Konqueror was good to start with but Dolphin becoming the default in KDE4 had me worried. Using Dolphin was not acceptable to me. Dolphin is just too simple for my use and it leaves all those hidden files in every folder it goes into.
I've known about Krusader for a long time but its really matured in the last year. I really wanted to find out how to launch it when clicking on the folder icons. All my attempts to change file associations for the folders seemed to fail.
After much googling, I found someone who was successful doing it in Gentoo. I tried it worked but broke my shortcut to launch krusader.
I therefore created 2 entries in my kmenu, one for launching when the shortcut is invoked and another for launching when an icon is clicked.
Use this to launch Krusader when clicking on a folder icon - '/usr/bin/krusader' --left /home/marcus/Desktop --right %u
User this to launch Krusader normally or from a shortcut - krusader -caption "%c" %i %m
Hope this is useful to someone.
Konqueror was good to start with but Dolphin becoming the default in KDE4 had me worried. Using Dolphin was not acceptable to me. Dolphin is just too simple for my use and it leaves all those hidden files in every folder it goes into.
I've known about Krusader for a long time but its really matured in the last year. I really wanted to find out how to launch it when clicking on the folder icons. All my attempts to change file associations for the folders seemed to fail.
After much googling, I found someone who was successful doing it in Gentoo. I tried it worked but broke my shortcut to launch krusader.
I therefore created 2 entries in my kmenu, one for launching when the shortcut is invoked and another for launching when an icon is clicked.
Use this to launch Krusader when clicking on a folder icon - '/usr/bin/krusader' --left /home/marcus/Desktop --right %u
User this to launch Krusader normally or from a shortcut - krusader -caption "%c" %i %m
Hope this is useful to someone.
Thursday, 6 March 2008
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