I didn't expect to blog twice in the same day regarding Linux gaming, yet anyhow... Battle for Wesnoth is a free turn based strategy game for personal computers released under the GNU General Public License. The Wesnoth team has released a DoS update, bring the stable release to v1.2.7. This is a bugfix release for 1.2.x and it is compatible with the other 1.2.x versions. "The main reason for this release was an important fix where an utf8 char at the wrong position in a chatmessage could crash other clients." This bug was filled as CVE-2007-3917.Read more

Over the past few months I have attempted to totally remove Windows from use in any of my lab machines. With a mixture of Debian and Ubuntu systems on all my machines I found the need for windows quickly fading into the distant pass. What keeps the bond to my Windows XP partition? The games of course! Apparently with a mixture of Wine and VMWare playing windows games are possible, yet I find the hassle to be in excess. Time to hunt down some fun strategy (Native) Linux games! Here is a resource list of some games that my Wife (On Debian) and I (On Ubuntu) play quite feverishly. Many can be install (on both Linux distro.) via apt-get/synaptic.Read more