The Document Foundation released version 5.0 of the LibreOffice suite last week. Usually a whole jump in an application’s version comes with significant changes and new features. Does LibreOffice 5.0 deserve its new version number? And, more importantly, is it worth upgrading to?
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Stephen Cameron, creator of our favourite spaceship bridge simulator, has just added mining to Space Nerds in Space.
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It’s sink or swim time for Battle for Wesnoth. The fantasy turn-based tactical game has been so long in every distro’s repository that we have nearly taken it for granted. But the Wesnoth team now needs your help.
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Ardour brings sophistication, stability and a metric ton load of cool features to the Open Source audio editing world.
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We met up with Jean-Baptiste Kempf, President of the VideoLAN Association, the non-profit that develops VLC.
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Say you publish articles, or books, or pamphlets. Say a lot of your work is tied up in hefty PDFs that don’t look good on the web. You can still showcase your work in an appealing way on your website by using ImageMagick’s seemingly infinite box of tricks.
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ImageMagick is the Swiss army knife of the command-line image-processing world. The array of tools it provides, combined with the amount of options each can take, is nothing short of staggering. Due to the fact it is also very shell-friendly, ImageMagick is ideal for batch processing whole directories full of images.
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We had already talked about how great the Synfig animation suite of programs is elsewhere on this site, but what we were missing is actually talking with the person who makes it possible. We got together with Konstantin Dmitriev, Synfig’s de facto project leader, main developer, head fundraiser, and all-around evangelist, to find out how…
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We have already established that Inkscape is the best thing since sliced-bread elsewhere on this site. But you’d be surprised at how useful it can be and, by combining different tools, how much time it can save.
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We met up with Stephen Cameron and Jeremy Van Grinsven, creators of Space Nerds in Space on FreeNode to talk about space simulators, nerds, lasers, and programming from the ground up games for Linux the old school way.
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Synfig Studio is a program for creating animations and rendering them to film. It allows you to create anything, from animated banners (does anyone still use those? Wait a sec while switch off my ad-blocker… OK, they do.), to feature length films.
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Space Nerds in Space (or SNiS for short) is a collaborative space exploration game with a twist: Each player is responsible for one part of the same ship. The game allows for multiple teams to compete against each other, and can also accomodate a game master that can inject non-player parties into the universe.
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