Beyond the Red Line

Beyond the Red Line is a stand-alone total conversion for the award-winning Freespace 2 released by Volition and Interplay for the PC. It is based on the popular new tv-show Battlestar Galactica. No, not the one from the 70s.

Beyond the Red Line is a stand-alone conversion and will not require Freespace 2. All you need for playing will be included in the download.The game is made by fans for the fans, no profit is being made from any part of the project.

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Linux Mint 3.0 Xfce Available Now

Linux Mint is an elegant, up-to-date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution based on the very popular Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux distributions. It offers paid commercial support to companies and individuals.

The Linux Mint Community is proud to present a new release of the Linux Mint distribution, this time based on the light and powerful XFCE desktop environment: “This is the first XFCE release of Linux Mint. It is made by and for the Linux Mint Community and it is maintained by Merlwiz79.” – says the Linux Mint team. Linux Mint XFCE is based on Cassandra and includes the following mint utilities:

•   mintInstall
•   mintDisk
•   mintWifi
•   xfcemintConfig
•   xfcemintDesktop

Here are some of the most interesting applications you’ll find in this edition:

•   OpenOffice 2.2.0
•   Firefox 2.0.0.6
•   Thunderbird 2.0.0.5
•   Sunbird 0.6a1
•   Exaile 0.2.10
•   Xfmdeia 0.9.1
•   Gmplayer(mozilla-mplayer)
•   Brasero 0.6.0
•   Chestnut Dialer GTK 0.3.3
•   Deluge 0.5.2
•   Fusesmbtool 0.2
•   Pidgin 2.1.0
•   X-Chat
•   Wicd 1.3.1
•   Gnormalize 0.52
•   Catfish 0.2.4
•   Evince 0.5.2
•   Gimp 2.2.13
•   GQview 2.0.4

Linux Mint XFCE runs faster and takes less resources and is ideal for older computers. The differences between this edition and the original Linux Mint are:

•   The presence of Exaile which replaces Amarok
•   The XFCE desktop replaces Gnome
•   Wicd replaces Network Manager

 

Download Links. Linux Mint 3.0 Xfce (ISO) | Linux Mint 3.0 Xfce (Torrent)

Dell Finally Sells Linux-based PCs in Europe and Asia

Dell Inc. has recently announced that they will start delivering their Linux-based PC in Europe and Asia. So far Dell has offered Linux pre-loaded desktops and laptops only inside the United States. Dell’s officials said at the time they were seriously considering expanding the sales but there were some issues which should have been solved before doing so, such as creating translations specific to each country.

But this Tuesday Dell announced they are ready to start delivering the systems to the United Kingdom, France, Gemany and China. Dell said that the Linux version installed on its machines from the European market will be Ubuntu, the same as for those on the US market. However, regarding the systems which will be sold in Asia, these will ship with Novell Inc.’s SuSE Linux. Also the Ubuntu PCs have already gone on sale since Tuesday while the SuSE based ones are still waiting to go on sale. Dell’s officials did not mention when exactly they’ll be ready, but this should be sometime soon.

Dell was the first large PC vendor to include in its offer pre-installed Linux systems. According to Dell, they’ve made such a movement as an answer to the Linux users from IdeaStorm.com forum who demanded for Linux systems. After Dell, there is also Lenovo which has recently announced the release of a Linux based laptop.

Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer with Dell was the one to announce the news regarding the Linux PCs sale expansion at this year’s LinuxWorld convention which takes place in San Francisco California, at Moscone Center from 6 to 9 August. This announcement was somehow expected as Dell has been writing on its official Direct2Dell website about plans to offer Linux-based systems outside US too. “Wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States. More details to come later this summer. We will also offer Ubuntu to small business customers in the future”, wrote Lionel Menchaca, Dell’s digital media manager on Direct2Dell website.

Source: Softpedia