Linux game company opens doors, releases first game

On November 3rd, 2007, Sixth Floor Labs LLC announced that they launched their business. The press release can be found here.

They also released the first release of Project Alexandria, an Asteroids-like arcade game. This is downloadable for free here.

Although it’s commendable that a company decides to make Linux games, this game’s graphics look very much like the Commodore 64 graphics. I haven’t played the game yet, but I’m not sure the world is waiting for the next 1980′s game. Hopefully future release will look a little better…

Setting up MXP to run under Linux

Recently our systems administrator asked me if it was possible to run MXP under Linux. “I don’t think there is a client of Progress for Linux, at least not graphical”, was my first response. But I got intrigued, and started digging (or rather, googling) around. And it is possible.

I’ll describe what I did under Ubuntu 7.10 with Progress 10.0B, and MXP 8.1E. The steps should be very similar for other Linux flavors, or later versions of Progress and MXP.

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Google releases Desktop for Linux

The Google Desktop has been released as a Linux version as of this week.

All the familiar features of the Windows version are there:

  • Quick search by pressing the Ctrl key twice
  • Smart indexing
  • File versioning
  • Integration with Google websearch

You can download the Linux version here. It requires glibc 2.3.2 or higher, and gtk+ 2.2.0 or higher.

Warning! A Linux commercial

The Ubuntu Video website has posted this video about Linux. :-)

Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) released

Ubuntu 7.04 (nicknamed “Feisty Fawn”) is officially released. The Ubuntu main page still mentions 6.10 as the latest version as of this moment, but you can download the various versions here.

I’m 25% into the download now, and will let you know what it looks like in a bit.