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The biggest reason people shy away from Linux is definitely gaming. However what they don’t realize is that there are really some great Linux Native games out there. And a lot of games that run under windows can be ran under Linux under Wine.

I’m going to take you through a tour of the games I have tried running and give you an idea of the stuff that is out there. Please bear in mind I am running this all  on my Acer 5720Z, which I have some issues with some games, but that has no bearing on the OS per se. It’s more the graphic drivers that are available for the Intel 965 Graphics built into it at this time. There are newer drivers that are out, however I had experienced some issues with the unstable kernel they were running under so I had wound up reinstalling everything back to before making that switch. Anyway read on for the tour of gaming on Linux…
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I have made DVD’s before under Windows Vista using the Microsoft DVD Creator software and using Power Producer as well. But now under Linux I wanted to create DVD’s of the movies I have ripped (or downloaded) or created so that we can watch them on our DVD player or give the DVD’s as gifts for family and friends.

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One of my biggest projects has been my podcast called VooDooRadio. It’s primarily an audio only show but once in a blue moon I released a video.  When I was under Windows I used Microsoft Movie Maker to create 3 videos. Two that showed my ugly mug and one that was a video promo for a live show I was doing on uStream at the time. Now that I am under the penguin umbrella, I decided to try out making a video using tools available to me. Here’s how things went and if you want to check the video out, read on or go over to VooDooRadio.org and subscribe to the feed!

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Ubuntu is a fork of Debian Linux as we all know, however from this fork we see many derivatives. Some of you may not like the default Gnome desktop or feel the basic install is missing something. Here’s a list of 21 derivatives of Ubuntu that you may or may not know about.

The list of derivatives has been expanding more and more and I am sure I missed some. Please comment if you have any more info on others. Read the rest of this entry »