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• — id Software's Main Linux Game Developer Resigns

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 22:18)

  Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software's popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company...

• — Pandora Handheld To Finally Go Into Mass Production Next Month

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 21:21)

  Open Source Linux based gaming handheld and mini-laptop Pandora has created lots of buzz when it was revealed 4 years back. Since then the project has gone under numerous rough stages, production issues, tech spec changes and financial problems. A limited batch of 4000 units was available for pre-orders but not everyone has got the device on time. However, it looks like that bad time is finally over. They tested a prototype recently and it was a 100% success. Pandora will go into mass production next month in Germany.

• — Top five open source social networking platforms available in the market

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 20:12)

  In this era of technology and internet, social networking sites are getting more and more popularity. People are spending hours in front of them. For creating a social media website a platform is necessary, to make this easy came the social networking platforms. Let us now take a look of the five most popular open source-networking platforms available in the market

• — FFmpeg 0.10 Gets New Filters, Decoders, Encoders

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 19:25)

  FFmpeg 0.10 is now available with several new filters, MUXers, encoders, and decoders for this very popular audio/video library...

• — Simple Linux Auditing

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 18:37)

  Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and information of that is out of place and readability is not that good. Recently this lead me to put together a Open Source code project and develop simple BASH scripts that do the job nicely. The code and tar ball can be downloaded from both google code or from SourceForge's website and the project website has links to documentation, help, installation and code.