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Comment Re:Bothered by executable installer, give me a deb (Score 1) 103

There is a deb on playdeb.net for an older release.. perhaps bug the guys over there to update it to 3.3.6. Sorry, as the build miester for Mega-Glest (MG) I don't have tones of Linux experience so making native packages for every distro is a bit of a challenge.

Comment Re:Again no x64 Windows build - why? (Score 3, Informative) 103

As the build person for Mega-Glest... I would say no 64 bit build for windows because it isn't needed at the moment, the 32 bit version runs fine in 64 bit windows. Linux on the other hand has different solutions for 32 bit emulation for different linux distro's.. the easiest thing was to build 32 and 64 bit versions under nix.
Real Time Strategy (Games)

FOSS RTS Game Glest Gets Revival — Enter Mega-Glest 103

Softhaus writes "Many readers here are likely familiar with the popular, open source RTS game Glest, which comes packaged with nearly every Linux distro. Unfortunately, all development ceased on the original game back in 2008, disappointing many around the world. During the past year, a new fork (called Mega-Glest) has endeavored to take this great game and bring it to the masses. This new fork can provide hours of fun at your next LAN party, as it supports up to eight players in real-time (with or without CPU AI players), and the newly released v3.3.5 offers Internet play via a master server lobby. Cross-platform network play is now a reality, which could help bridge the gap between Linux and Windows users in a cohesive manner. One of the best features of Mega-Glest (and indeed Glest itself) is the ease with which new 'factions' and mods may be produced via a Map editor, model viewer, Blender plugins, XML files describing your unit traits, particles, weapons, and LUA scripting for scenarios and AI. Full installers for Windows, Linux 32-bit and 64-bit are available on SourceForge, promising hours of fun. But one warning: the game can become highly addictive. You can provide feedback for the game through the official forums."
Games

Submission + - FOSS RTS Game Glest gets revival, enter Mega-Glest

Softhaus writes: Many readers here are likely familiar with the popular open source RTS game Glest (glest.org) which comes packaged with nearly every Linux distro. Unfortunately all development had ceased on the original game back in 2008 creating friction around the world due to a great loss felt worldwide (sets the stage for his shamless marketing pitch). During the past year a new fork (called Mega-Glest) has endeavoured to take this great game and bring it to the masses! This new fork will prove hours of fun at your next LAN party as it sports up to 8 players realtime (with or without CPU AI players) and the newly released v3.3.5 offers Internet play via a master server lobby. Cross platform network play is now a reality which could conceptually create world peace as angry gamers return to "real strategy" and walk away from their mindless fps's, finally bridging the gap between Linux and Windows users in a co-hesive manner. One of the best features of Mega-Glest (and indeed Glest itself) is the ease of which new "factions" and mod's may be produced via a Map editor, model viewer, Blender plugins, xml files which describe your units traits, particles, weapons etc. and to top it off LUA scripting for scenarios and AI.

Where can i get it? Full installers for windows, Linux 32 and 64 bit are waiting on sourceforge for you, promising hours of fun. But one warning, the game can become highly addictive.

Drop by the sourceforge.net download page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/current_release/

or visit the forums to tell us what your think:
http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?board=20.0"
Image

Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."
Businesses

SourceForge To Acquire Development Portal Ohloh.net 79

SourceForge, Inc. (parent company of Slashdot, and the corporate overlord of SourceForge.net and ThinkGeek) announced today plans to purchase Ohloh, a three-year-old Seattle company that runs Ohloh.net, a software-development portal that specializes in the community aspects of distributed open source projects. The purchase will probably be final as of next month. (I hope no one requires that I show up to an office, just because one will be nearby.)
The Internet

Google and Friends Release Net Neutrality Measuring Tools 126

angry tapir writes "Google and a group of partners have released a set of tools designed to help broadband customers and researchers measure performance of Internet connections. The set of tools, at MeasurementLab.net, includes a network diagnostic tool, a network path diagnostic tool and a tool to measure whether the user's broadband provider is slowing BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P-to-P) traffic. Coming soon to the M-Lab applications is a tool to determine whether a broadband provider is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic, and a tool to determine whether a provider is degrading certain users or applications. 'Transparency is our goal,' said Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist at Google and a co-developer of TCP/IP. 'Our intent is to make more [information] visible for all who are interested in the way the network is functioning at all layers.'"
Graphics

How Quake Wars Met the Ray Tracer 158

An anonymous reader writes "Intel released the article 'Quake Wars Gets Ray Traced' (PDF) which details the development efforts of the research team that applied a real-time ray tracer to Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. It describes the benefits and challenges of transparency textures with this rendering technology. Further insight is given into what special effects are most costly. Examples of glass and a 3D water implementation are shown. The outlook hints into the area of freely programmable many-core processors, like Intel's upcoming Larrabee, that might be able to handle such a workload." We mentioned the ray-traced Quake Wars last in June; the PDF here delves into the implementation details, rather than just showing a demo, and explains what parts of the game give the most difficulty in going from rasterization to ray-tracing.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - New Open Source FPS shows promise

Softhaus writes: "The guys at Blood Frontier have been busy for the last two years working on a new FPS called (surprise) Blood Frontier. This game is an enhanced Cube 2 engine with original artwork and great new gameplay (including a kidmode which optionally turns off the blood which is a nice option for a change). Add the new paintball mode and you have a real "game community" here. The code is all there (complete for you to play with), the team listens to feedback from the community, and the game is great!

Its nice to see these talented guys showing a true free software attitude.

They mentioned the first actual release is schedule for next Friday (but I couldn't wait so I built the latest dev snapshot from SVN and made an installation available here (sorry only a windows build for now))

Does anyone know of other great open source projects where they are truly "open"?"

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