Agnostic God

I’ve seen this awesome presentation recently about linux. It wasn’t a flame war but a real and well argumented discussion. Linux sucks for the desktop and we know it.

But even so, we love it, keep using it. Because it really needs us and we have to keep believing in it no mater what.

The subtitle of the presentation was “And what can be done to fix it“.

If you don’t have the time to watch it, the conclusion is:

• use standardized back-ends for package management, audio & video frame works etc
• things need to be made simple
• commercial software must be encouraged as well
• free & open source software is not actually 100% free, because developers are human beings and need to eat (they sacrifice more than enough already contributing to open source, so help out and even consider donating)
• DON’T encourage useless code duplication!

If you liked it, please digg it!

Yo Frankie Open Source Game

I’ve just started seeding it, no registration required!

http://isohunt.com/release/160501

If you are not familiar with the game, go to http://www.yofrankie.org/

To sum it up: it’s an open source game developed by the Blender Foundation, using blender and it’s amazing game engine.

No binaries included, to run it go grab blender from www.blender.org (8mb, open source, cross platform) and after you install it and downloaded the files as well, go into levels folder and open start_menu.blend and them press P.

• Tip 1: When playing from source, hover mouse over the 3d view-port and press shift + space in order to maximize it!
• Tip 2: You can make your own binary as well!
  Go to File and click Save game as run time…

If you’re interested in another open game project developed by the Freezing Moon NPO using blender, please join IRC on server Freenode, channel #FreezingMoon (or just go over here).