Sep 062011
 

The browser market for GNU/Linux is dominated by Chrome and Firefox, with Opera on the sidelines with a smaller percentage of users. but as in all fields also in this one GNU/Linux offers many really interesting alternatives that you should evaluate.

I know that there are also text-based browsers, which i often use when I work on servers and I need a fast information or to verify a web-site, but today I’ll just go for the graphical ones used in desktop environment.

So let’s take a look at SRWare Iron, Icecat, Midori, Dillo and Rekonq.
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Sep 052011
 

bitfighterBitfighter is a free multi-player 2-D space combat game with Robotron-like controls. It’s a team-based strategy game featuring retro vector graphics and customizable ships. It’s fast, fun, and frenetic.

Bitfighter is designed for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and has an active development team.

Bitfighter is a fun shooter for the desktop computer. Bitfighter centers around creating and playing levels made by others. This is done by players hosting servers. Simple, right? Best of all, Bitfighter is a multiplayer game, so grab a few friends and game on!
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Sep 042011
 
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Article by PaulW, he’s a person that did not know anything about our beloved OS; so in occasion of the 20 years i asked him to do a small research and write an article on what he has learnt about Linux
New to Linux at 20
When something or someone reaches 20 years old, it should always be considered a great achievement. Linux is 20 years old this year and seem to be as strong as it ever has been. If like me, you are not familiar with Linux, there are many things you could learn from this article. What is Linux? Is it just a computer thing, or does it have many other uses?
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Sep 032011
 

Today i’ll present you some games of a classic genre: Rogue

Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980.
The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Most roguelikes feature ASCII graphics, with newer ones increasingly offering tile-based graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many monsters, items, and environmental features.

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Sep 032011
 

The regular expression, or regexp, are the most powerful, versatile and hated tool used by programmers and system administrators.

They allow to express with a few characters search for strings, characters or words, and if done well can lead to good results, but if they are wrong they can not give you any useful result, and the worst thing is that often it is difficult to understand whether or not a regepx it is written with a correct syntax to cover all the possibility.

But now as first thing let’s see what is a regular expression:

From WIkipedia

In computing, a regular expression, also referred to as regex or regexp, provides a concise and flexible means for matching strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. A regular expression is written in a formal language that can be interpreted by a regular expression processor, a program that either serves as a parser generator or examines text and identifies parts that match the provided specification.

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