You can now play HoN for FREE!
Come join us for a Free To Play Week starting Monday, August 2nd at 1:00 PM EST and ending on Monday, August 9th at 1:00 PM EST.

Set up your free account and download the client from here. It’s fast and easy to do. You’ll be playing HoN again in just minutes! And, for FREE.

Come see what you’ve been missing. You will have access to the full game and all 68 heroes, including the newest hero, Doctor Repulsor.
You will be able to see all game replays, but no cumulative stats will be available for F2P accounts.

So this time even people who don’t have a beta account will be able to register and play, but they will be limited to no stats matches only

Links
HoN
Free To Play Week

Site: http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net

Sauerbraten is a free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.

Most of you guys already know about Sauerbraten, but it has been updated again. So if you didn’t heard of it yet or just feeling like kill someone, make sure you try Sauerbraten.

Changelog:

• 30 new maps
• 2 new player models: Captain Cannon and Inky
• new game modes: hold and efficiency variants
• can now configure texture slots in-game
• transparent world geometry
• multi-threaded lightmap generation
• radar mini-map

To install it, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update sauerbraten=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

The current version is: 2010_07_28_justice_edition

Updated and added few games last few days in Foresight Linux.

Here is a brief:

Pingus

Site: http://pingus.seul.org/

Pingus is a free Lemmings-like game.

Install, open terminal:

sudo conary update pingus=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

Ri-Li

Site: http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/

You drive a toy wood engine in many levels and you must collect all the coaches to win.

sudo conary update ri-li=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

Warzone 2100

Site: http://wz2100.net/

you command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles.

The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes.

sudo conary update warzone2100=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.

Smuxi is based on the client-server model: The core application (engine) can be placed onto a server which is connected to the Internet around-the-clock; one or more frontends then connect to the core. This way, the connection to IRC can be kept up even when all frontends have been closed. The combination of screen and irssi served as example for this architecture.

Smuxi also supports the regular single application mode. This behaves like a typical IRC client; it doesn’t need separate core management and utilizes a local engine that is used by the local frontend client.

Smuxi currently supports the following features

• Detachable Frontend (frontend can be detached from a smuxi-server)
• Multiple Server Support (you can connect to more than one server)
• Unified Nickname Colors (identical color across channels and networks)
• Caret-Mode (keyboard navigation through messages)
• Regular and Bash-Style Nickname Completion
• Full Keyboard Control
• Startup Commands (when Smuxi starts)
• On Connect Commands (when connecting to a server)
• Message / Command History
• Configurable Encoding (ISO-8859-1/15, UTF-8, etc)
• Configurable Command Character
• Auto Connect (automatically connect to defined servers)
• Quick Connect Dialog (simply connect to any server)
• Open / Join Chat Dialog
• Find Group Chat Dialog
• Sorted and Reoderable Tabs
• Colors are checked and adjusted for optimium contrast
• Clickable URLs
• Word Wrapping
• Logging Support
• Fully customizable filters to ignore messages or events
• Configurable Highlight Words
• Markerlines which divide old messages from new messages
• Themeing Support
  • Configurable Font
  • Foreground / Background Color
  • Userlist Position
  • Tab Colors / Position
  • Configurable Timestamps
  • Configurable Tray-Icon Support
• Translations
  • British English
  • Czech
  • Catalan (patial)
  • Danish
  • Finnish (patial)
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish (patial)
  • Swedish
• Multiple Network Protocols
  • IRC Support
    • Stripping Colors and/or Formattings from Messages
    • Showing mIRC Colors
    • Splitting oversized messages
    • Channel List / Search
    • CTCP Support including a Menu
    • Invite To Menu
    • Lag Indicator
  • Twitter Support
    • Reading and Posting Tweets
    • Friends Timeline
    • Replies
    • Direct Messages

Themeing & UI

Love the way it handles tabs and userlist. First of all, userlist can show on left side or right side. Tabs can be showed at upper, bottom, right and left side. My pic above has tabs at left side. Colors and fonts are changeable too. background images and tab colours are changeable.

Download

To download Smuxi for Arch, Foresight, Debian, OpenSuse, Gentoo, FreeBSD… Go to: http://www.smuxi.org/page/Download

Front-end old-style terminal interface, for web services like those provided by Google and Yahoo.

- Enter green commands without parameters to change default mode.
- Anything that’s not a command will search in current default mode.
- Aliases will expand to commands. Numbers will expand to corresponding search results.
- Use cursor up and down for command history.
- Enter keyword and hit the tab-key for tab-completion.
- Commands marked with * are experimental, use them with care and please report any bugs.

Site: http://goosh.org

Project site: http://code.google.com/p/goosh/

Today, we start to build Banshee from Git instead of tarballs. To make sure we always got a working Banshee, thats based on latest version.

Latest Banshee (1.7.3) was released with an issue that made some packagers to either remove gnome-doc-utils or using a patch to current 1.7.3 release.

So from now on, Foresight Linux will ship Banshee built from Git instead. This doesn’t mean we will update it to make it unstable, we will still make sure its stable enough to have in Foresight. As we specify from what Git commit we will build from.

Also read little from creator and developer for Banshee: http://abock.org/2010/07/22/tarballs-why

There are many applications out there for Linux that can import to your computer. But we will list 3 of them, probably the best 3 open sourced applications out there today.

F-Spot

F-Spot supports 16 common files types, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, and others.

Import your photos from your hard drive, camera (including PTP type), or iPod.
Creating a CD of photos is just clicks away. Simply select the photos you wish to have on CD, and choose “Export to CD” from the main menu.

If you have a Flickr, 23, Picasa Web or SmugMug account, F-Spot can export photos to it, while optionally resizing your selection, and preserving tags and metadata.

You can also export to Gallery or O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. powered websites, or a nicely themed static webpage.

Shotwell

Shotwell Features:
1. Import: Import photos from folders or from any digital camera supported by gPhoto.

2. Organize: Shotwell automatically groups photos taken at the same time. You can also use tags to organize your photo collection.

3. Edit: You can rotate, crop, reduce red-eye, and adjust the exposure, saturation, tint, and temperature of each photo.

4. Publish: Publish photos to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums.

Rapid Photo Downloader

This one isn’t like the 2 others, as this application is a pure import application. So if you only plan to import photos/videos, then i would go for this application. No question about it.

Conclusion

If you need a great feature rich application, then F-spot is the one for you. Specially the version 0.71 that was recently released.

If you only need to grab a few photos and easy to upload them to facebook or flickr, then Shotwell is the one to use. It’s more slimmed, but remember it cant handle as much file types that f-spot do.

If you need a pure import application, then go for rapid-photo-downloader.

To install these ones in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update f-spot

sudo conary update shotwell

sudo conary update rapid-photo-downloader

The version of the applications we got today is:
f-spot 0.7.1
rapid-photo-downloader 0.3.0
shotwell 0.6.1

Foresight been using stable release of Gimp until 2.7.1 released. 2.7.0 was too unstable to update to.

Now users can easily use the “Single-Window mode” of gimp, it will make all windows in Gimp to be one. Looks more like photoshop.

If you are in fl:2-qa or fl:2-devel labels of your Foresight, you can change it in gimp under: Window > Single-Window Mode

Today I updated http://www.foresightlinux.se to latest joomla stable version. Also updated Agora plugin for running a forum with joomla.

Eveverything went smooth, just small edits in CSS files to fit my needs for Foresight Linux – SE.

Also will update few guides to english, as i recieved few mails for explanaition for some settings and so on.

Some may wonder why I dont update www.foresightlinux.org and in their wiki page, the major problem is that users seem to find my site alot easier than official Foresight Linux site.  Iv’e been adding alot of tools to optimize Foresight Linux – SE site for google search engines and so on, that may be why users find my site before official site. Offcourse I will add it in official wiki too, but I need to start somewhere