Leftovers: Software

• mpv Is a Media Player with No UI That Runs From Terminal

  mpv, an open source media player that has been forked from mplayer2 and MPlayer and that works only from the command line, has been upgraded to version 0.7.3 and is ready for download.

• unhtml: Peeling away the layers

  unhtml is one of probably two or three (or four or five …) html-strippers that I’ve seen since the start of this silly little site, and while it’s not the most elegant or flexible, it might be the oldest.

• List Of Tools To Monitor The Health Of Your Linux System

  Achieving good performance from a computer or network is an important part of system administration.The monitoring and maintenance of the system is the most important task listed in the checklists for daily tasks of a system and network administrator. There are many commands line utilities created for this purpose.

• Clamping down on users with rbash

  For the first thing, it's an optional feature of bash. It can be included in bash if the --enable-restricted option is used with the configure command when bash is built. To make it usable, you (assuming you're the admin now) create a symbolic link to bash and call is rbash. It's as simple as that. And if you're not sure if a system that you use or administer provides the rbash functionality, try this:

• What is a good command-line IRC client on Linux

  Now replaced more and more by forums, social networks, or mailing lists, IRC was once the method of communication of the web. And if it stands today as the last bastion of hackers and bearded Linux users, it remains one of the fastest and most specific channel of communication. If you have a technical difficulty, or just want some company, there is an appropriate IRC channel for you. And if you are tired of the YouTube comment section and its torrent of hate, IRC people are in general much more behaved (and moderated). So in short, here is a non-exhaustive list of IRC console clients. Why console? Because if you go down there, you might as well do it in style.

• AppStream 0.8 released!

  Yesterday I released version 0.8 of AppStream, the cross-distribution standard for software metadata, that is currently used by GNOME-Software, Muon and Apper in to display rich metadata about applications and other software components.

• AppStream 0.8 Works On Improving Open-Source Software Metadata

• Centreon: A Free Alternative To Nagios Xi Monitoring Platform

• imgflo 0.3: GEGL metaoperations++

  GEGL has for a long time supported meta-operations: operations which are built as a sub-graph of other operations. However, they had to be built programatically using the C API which limited tooling support and the platform-specific nature made them hard to distribute. [...] This makes Flowhub+imgflo a useful tool also outside the web-based processing workflow it is primarily built for. Feature is available in GEGL and GIMP master as of last week, and will be released in GIMP 2.10 / GEGL 0.3.

• Opera Founder Builds a New, Fast and Powerful Browser Called Vivaldi – Gallery

  Vivaldi is a web browser based on Chromium, developed by an Opera founder and his team. They want to provide a browser that is aimed at power users and that makes no compromises regarding its functionality.

today's howtos

• How To Install QupZilla 1.8.6 On Debian Jessie, Debian Wheezy, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 And OpenSUSE 12.3

• How To Install Kernel 3.19 RC6 On Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 And Derivatives

• How To Install Audacious 3.6 Beta 1 On Ubuntu 14.10 And Ubuntu 14.04

• How To Install Firefox 35.0.1 On Linux Systems

• How To Install Palemoon 25.2.1 On Linux Systems

• Setting up a private Docker registry

• How to install Arch Linux with XFCE Desktop

• How To Add Swap on FreeBSD Unix Systems

• How To Install Kernel 3.18.4 On Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 And Derivative Systems

• How To Install Calibre 2.17 On Linux Systems

• How To Install Icinga On Ubuntu

• NVIDIA GeForce Driver Installation on Debian Jessie Linux 8 64bit

• Detecting fake flash

• Optimising Raspberry Pi code

• Install Vivaldi in Linux - Awesome Multi Platform Browser

• How To Patch and Protect Linux Server Against the Glibc GHOST Vulnerability # CVE-2015-0235

• Sharing Admin Privileges for Many Hosts Securely

• Multitasking in the Linux Kernel. Interrupts and Tasklets

• Disabling downloadable fonts

Leftovers: Gaming

• Remastered Video Game 'Grim Fandango' Is Delightfully Weird

• Two Worlds II Is Not Coming To Linux, Well Maybe, We Aren't Sure Anymore

  Sadly sometimes people go on autopilot, and the developer of Two Worlds II and Raven's Cry has confirmed to me they didn't read my previous emails correctly, so Two Worlds II is not coming to Linux, but it might be, confused? I am.

• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel New DLC ‘Lady Hammerlock The Baroness Pack’ Lands On Linux

  Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel the latest in the Borderlands series that is available on Linux has gained another DLC titled ‘Lady Hammerlock the Baroness Pack’, and this new DLC is available for Linux thanks to Aspyr Media.

• Witcher 2 for Linux Gets New Update That Really Makes a Difference

  The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is still being improved on for the Linux platform and a new major patch has been released for the games, although it's still in the Beta stage.

• The Witcher 2 Has A New Beta For Linux, The Improvements Are Staggering

  We know how some of you feel about wrappers, but that's an old argument now. The game is here, and the developers are still working on improving it. The Witcher 2 had a new beta a few days ago, and we took a look and just how much of an improvement it is.

• New Beta Of Witcher 2 Aims For Greater Performance

  A new beta of the Linux port of The Witcher 2 was released this weekend and it aims to deliver improved performance. The Witcher 2 for Linux was released last May but many Linux gamers remain frustrated with the initial quality of the game port. The Linux port was done using Virtual Programming's eON layer to ease the developer's process in porting from Windows to Linux, but it's caused major performance issues.

• Darksiders Linux Port Looks Like It Is Still Happening

  Darksiders is another big game we are excited about, and sadly the current people in charge of the port haven't replied to our messages, but thanks to SteamDB we can see it's still happening.

• Scirra’s 'Construct' Game Creation Editor To Support Linux With Construct 3

  I love the idea of game creation tools that require no programming knowledge, as they enable hobbyists to have fun, quick prototyping and much more. Construct 2 is one of the finest around, and the developers have laid out plans for Construct 3.

• Cradle, A Fantastic Looking 3D Adventure Game Shows Linux Progress

  Cradle (their site is a terrible all-Flash website, urgh!) is a really quite good-looking adventure game coming out, and the developers have teased their Linux testing recently.

• Curse Client Linux Alternatives For Updating World Of Warcraft Addons

  Curse Client is an addon management tool for games such as World of Warcraft and others, which unfortunately doesn't work on Linux.

• Humble Weekly Bundle: Je Suis Charlie Has Linux Support and It Ends Tomorrow

  Humble Weekly Bundle: Je Suis Charlie is a collection of games from French developers and the proceeds from the sales are going to Freedom of the Press Foundation. Also, most of the games have Linux support.

• Outlast, That Really Scary Game Looks Like It's Still Heading To Linux

  Good news folks, thanks to a comment on a recent article we were poked about taking a look at the progress of porting Outlast to Linux, and it seems to have a new private Linux build in testing.

• Out There: Omega Edition, A Hard Sci-fi Space Exploration Game Now In Beta For Linux, My Thoughts

  Out There: Omega Edition has landed on Linux in the form of a beta, and it's a game we have been eagerly waiting for. Thankfully I've had some time to test before the official release, and here are some thoughts.

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