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| 2008-02-22 |
Development Release: Famelix GNU/Linux 2.1 RC1 |
| Famelix GNU/Linux is a Brazilian desktop distribution with a goal to clone the look and feel of Windows Vista. The first release candidate for version 2.1 was announced earlier today. What's new? Support for five languages - Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, German and English; auto-mounting of external storage media; automatic package updates from the new Famelix repository; based exclusively on Debian and built with the help of Debian Live scripts; support for various wireless network cards; support for 3D desktop effects on NVIDIA, ATI and Intel graphics cards; the latest Compiz Fusion with new functionality; new control panel and system installer.... Visit the project's home page (in Portuguese) to read the full release announcement. Download: famelix-2.1-B.iso (698MB). |
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| 2007-01-31 |
Distribution Release: Famelix 1.3 |
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| Famelix is a Brazilian desktop Linux distribution which mimics the look and feel of Windows XP. The project has released version 1.3 earlier this week with the following characteristics: many updates and bug fixes in order to facilitate the migration of users from Windows XP to Linux; Linux kernel 2.6.17; KDE 3.5.5; switch to udev for improved hardware recognition; addition of BR-Office.org; various improvements to the KDE desktop and Samba integration; simplification of the launch menu; improved hardware support for wireless network cards, webcams and modems. Visit the screenshots page and read the release announcement (in Portuguese) for further information. Download (MD5): famelix-1.3.iso (678MB); also available via BitTorrent. |
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| 2005-07-31 |
Distribution Release: Famelix 1.1 |
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| Famelix is a Brazilian Linux live CD designed for potential Windows converts - complete with a familiar look and feel of Windows XP. A new version 1.1 has been released after some six months in development; it includes a new kernel with patches for bootsplash and supermount, a number of updated packages, such as KDE 3.3.2 and OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta, multilingual support, and other optimisations. Find more details in the official release announcement and in this discussion at BR-Linux.org (both links in Portuguese). Download: famelix-1.1.iso (583MB). |
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| 2004-05-27 |
Distribution Release: Famelix 1.0 |
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| Famelix is a new Linux distribution developed by Brazil's Faculdade Metropolitana de Guaramirim (FAMEG) and based on the work of Kurumin Linux. Its peculiarity lies in the adaptation of the KDE user interface so that it resembles Windows XP as much as possible (see screenshot). Famelix 1.0 was released earlier this week and is available for download via BitTorrent (file size 410MB). If you can understand Brazilian Portuguese, visit the distribution's home page for further information and screenshots.
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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