Yesterday has been released the version 5.0 of Trisquel, an Ubuntu based GNU/Linux Distribution.
In their announcement:
In what we can now call it a tradition, we celebrate the Software Freedom Day by publishing our latest release: Trisquel GNU/Linux 5.0 STS, codename Dagda.
DeadCyborg it’s a free, donation based hard-sci-fi adventure game for Windows, Mac and Linux.
The plot:
You are a human being who has waken up in a cryotank… you have no memories, but you find some messages from the past… from yourself…
You don’t feel good… maybe this is a radioactive and toxic place … you may not have much time… You find some stupid robots… with strange answers to your questions.
The game is a donateware with the following episodes only released if enough funding is made, so if you download this game and enjoy it please show your support.
Minitube it’s an application to watch youtube movie without using Flash or your browser, i’ve talked about it in a former article.
But from some time there were problems and the app was not able anymore to load properly the youtube video (this was with version 1.4.3 from around 1 month ago).
Flavio released on 5 of august a new release, the 1.5 that fixed this problem
Here I am with a new release that fixes the problem and adds a few features. Thanks to Mike Holenderski for emailing me details about the YouTube changes that broke Minitube. Besides watching videos again, you can now drag’n’drop YouTube links from your browser to the Minitube window. Also, Minitube is now more tolerant about which URLs are actually YouTube URLs.
Once again this incredible offer it’s available for a limited time (it ends in 13 days).
Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would cost around $50, but with this offer you can set the price!
You choose exactly how your purchase is divided: game developers, foundations (the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or the Child’s Play Charity), or the company organizing this (Humble Bundle, Inc).
All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
The games don’t use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely. There is no time-limit on your downloads.
Everyone in the Gnu/Linux world (or so i think) has been worried by the news about Microsoft buying Skype, the standard de facto about VOIP.
But perhaps there is a hope for a future more open on this software ?
Skype 5.5 beta support now the protocol XMPP, this has been added mainly to talk with facebook, in fact the leader of the social networks uses this protocol for his chat, but this could open a lot of possibility for Skype also for other things.
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