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New Theme

Craciun Dan — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:46:35 +0000

TuxArena now has a new WordPress theme. There is still some work that I have to do on the comments, that is, make them look nicer, but otherwise it seems to work well. Hope you like it ;) If I can finish it, maybe I’ll try submitting it to the WordPress themes directory.

Debian 7.0 ‘Wheezy’ Artwork Unveiled

Craciun Dan — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:23:14 +0000

According to this announcement on the official Debian website, Debian logos may be used freely for both non-commercial and commercial purposes.

In addition to this, the final artwork for the upcoming release 7.0 codenamed ‘Wheezy’ has been published too, just a few days after the Debian Installer RC1 was released. The artwork is following a light-blue pattern. You can download an archive containing the artwork from here. The package contains PNG and SVG files for the background, grub, the Debian installer, syslinux and even artwork designed for merchandising purposes (like T-Shirts, mugs etc).

According to the current Debian Project Leader, Stefano Zacchiroli, “Software freedoms and trademarks are a difficult match. We all want to see well-known project names used to promote free software, but we cannot risk they will be abused to trick users into downloading proprietary spyware. With the help of SPI and SFLC, we have struck a good balance in our new trademark policy. Among other positive things, it allows all sorts of commercial use; we only recommend clearly informing customers about how much of the sale price will be donated to Debian.”

Here are a few screenshots:

CD:

Dvd case:

Plymouth:

Grub2:

Installer:

Wallpaper:

NeonView 0.8.1 Released

Craciun Dan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:34:34 +0000

This new release fixes many bugs and adds some functionality improvements. Have a look at the announcement, or download it from here.

NeonView is a minimalist image viewer for Linux, created by TuxArena and written in C and GTK+ 3.

Below is a screenshot of NeonView in GNOME 3:

Counter-Strike Available on Steam for Linux

Craciun Dan — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:58:17 +0000

I was pretty reluctant in trying Steam on Linux ever since it was made available, but what made me install it was that Counter-Strike is now available on Linux via Steam too. I used to play this a lot a few years back and CS for Steam was put out on February 6. So I bought the Counter-Strike Anthology pack during this weekend deal and decided to give it a try.

Installing Counter-Strike

After downloading and installing the game, this can be found inside the ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common directory.

This is a beta version, and it looks pretty good. I could notice that the main menu is capped at a certain resolution compared to the usual version for Windows, but the game itself seems to use whatever resolution specified by the user. As always, I’m glad to see games ported to native Linux. There was, however, a significant drop in FPS compared to the Windows version, but that may be because of the Intel drivers.

The server browser seems to work OK: