Leftovers: Family Activity, Artful Alpha 2, Debian 9.1 and Ukuu

• Family - Find relatives

  Family_find_relatives is an extension of the Family activity which is aimed at providing a bit more challenge for someone who has already finished the family activity. The goal of this activity is: given a relation, the user will have to select a pair of node that correctly represents the given relation.

• Artful Alpha 2 release candidate is ready for testing!

  Test if you can, on real hardware if possible, in virtual machines if not.

• [Older] Debian patches plenty in new version 9.1

  The new release rolls up 26 security fixes that have landed since June. This one, which landed last week, is worth plucking out of the noise, with Debian joining others in patching the Heimdal Kerberos man-in-the-middle bug.

• [Video] Ubuntu Kernel Upgrade Utility (Ukuu)

  Ubuntu Kernel Upgrade Utility (Ukuu) is a GUI tool to install a new Linux Kernel from Ubuntu Mainline PPA. Very useful tool if the existing Canonical managed kernel is causing you driver issues.

Games: Steam, New GNU/Linux Games, PS3 Emulator, 0 A.D. Alpha 22 and CryENGINE

• Can’t Create Desktop Shortcuts to Steam Games on Linux? You’re Not Alone…

  Having issues trying to create a desktop shortcut for a Steam game on Linux? Well, you can seek some solace in the fact that you're not alone.

 

• What Hit The Shelves Lately

  Well, mostly the virtual shelves since no Linux gamer actually buys physical games (on Linux) in a box. While I do appreciate the convenience that digital games have brought (and how cheap they have become), I can’t help but miss a little the Golden Age of boxed games. I’m not talking about the shitty packaging of console games and their crappy plastic DVD box, but the time when computer games were packaged in beautiful, big carton boxes with beautiful artwork, featuring goodies and surprises as you opened them up. Hell, Colonization came with a 100 pages manual that went far beyond explaining how to play the game, by giving a good account on how the colonization of the New World really happened. Nowadays it’s not unusual for even complex games to ship without a proper manual (Hearts of Iron IV, with a mostly empty wiki at release, and a tutorial that covered only 10% of the game aspects… like WTF?). But I digress.

 

• PS3 Emulator RPCS3 Downloadable Binaries Available for Linux

 

• New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 22 Venustas

• 0 A.D. Alpha 22 Venustas Released

  For fans of the 0 A.D. open-source ancient warfare game, its 22nd alpha release is now available.

• CryENGINE 5.4 Available In Preview Form With Vulkan Capabilities

Software: Linux Applications For Office, NNN, GNU nano 2.8.6, and Opera "Snap"

• 10 Must Have Linux Applications For Office

  When it comes to office work, you want to be as productive and efficient as possible. Today, let’s look at 10 must have Linux apps for your office which will get your working like a Boss. Read along.

• nnn v1.3

• [Nano] Latest Version 2.8.6

  GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace -- instead of always at the edge of the screen.  This can be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks' together with the softwrap option.  This release further fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor' (please update your nanorc files before 2020).

• Opera Web Browser Now Has a Screen Capture Utility, Too, and It's Called "Snap"

  Following the latest trends of implementing a built-in screenshot utility into a web browser product, Opera Software on Monday announced that it added a new screen capture tool to the latest Opera developer release. Opera developer 48.0.2664.0 appears to be the first version of the popular and free web browser to add a new camera icon to the sidebar, making easier for users to snap an image of the coolest parts, or even an entire web page. Opera is the third web browser we know to offer a screenshot utility, after Vivaldi and Firefox.

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