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Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Releases Beta 2 113

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:50AM from the now-with-bloodier-frontiers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The open source FPS Blood Frontier has now made their beta2 release. From the article: 'After many months of development, and massive amounts of input from the public, we are proud to present you with the new release of Blood Frontier, v0.85 (Beta 2). This new version totally redefines and improves the game in many ways, creating a whole new style that makes it almost nothing like its predecessor.'"

Comment French to the rescue... (Score 3, Interesting) 204

by Sol-Invictus on Thursday April 16, 2009 @08:12AM (#27595917) Attached to: New Data Center Will Heat Homes In London

A bit off-topic, but I was amused to find out that here in the UK so many people turn their kettles on at 7:30pm for a cup of tea that sometimes they have to bring online a link from the French power grid to supply the extra power; apparently there is a guy who has to keep watch every day at 7:30 and if the power generation levels become serious enough he brings the French link online.

Submission + - FreeBSD 7.1 released (freebsd.org)

Submitted by Sol-Invictus on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @08:34AM

Sol-Invictus writes: The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: * The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads. * Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework. * A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client. * Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices. * The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment. * KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3. * DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures

Comment BSD vs. GPL (Score 1) 633

by Sol-Invictus on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @09:19AM (#24115875) Attached to: Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy

I think I'll use the BSD license for my wife; I can give her away and anyone can do what they like with her. If I use the GPL, I'll get back the 'contributions' they made to her. Eww.

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