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How to install World of Padman in Fedora 14

Published on 2011-08-01 12:27:07

This tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to install World of Padman on a Fedora 14. World of Padman is cartoon-style, first person shooter game where players must take on opponents across wide variety of giant maps. Its a free, colorful, funny and awesome game. To install World of Padman, open up your terminal and type the below command as root. yum -y install worldofpadman read more > read more

How to install Urban Terror in Fedora 14

Published on 2011-08-01 03:02:59

Urban terror is a great FREE FPS Game with low system requirements, it features realistic game play similar to counter strike and works flawlessly in Linux. Its easy to install, its available in the repository so installation in Fedora is very easy, you just need to type one command. This installation tutorial is intended for Fedora 14. To install Urban Terror, open up your terminal and type the below command as root. yum -y install urbanterror read more > read more

Play DotA clone Heroes of Newerth on Linux Natively For Free

Published on 2011-07-30 21:13:58

Heroes of Newerth (commonly known as HoN) is a free-to-play action/real-time strategy game based on DotA. The developer S2 Games announced last Friday that HoN is now free-to-play. HoN is heavily inspired by the popular Warcraft 3 mod, Defense of the Ancients (DotA), but with vast improvements in graphics and gameplay. In HoN, two teams of up to five players each take on the role of special Hero units. With the assistance of AI-controlled armies, each team sets out with the sole objective of des [..] > read more

100 Best Free and High Quality Linux Games

Published on 2011-07-28 18:56:12

There are literally thousands of games that can be played on Linux, if you're a casual gamer or hardcore Linux fan who is looking to have a bit of fun on your favourite distro, there's plenty of games to choose from. If you are unsure what to get, this list will help you out. This list includes all the popular and free high quality games that runs on Linux natively, from action/first-person shooters to real-time and turn-based strategy games to rpg/mmorpg etc. If you have more games that you wou [..] > read more

How to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14 (64-bit)

Published on 2011-03-24 10:04:31

This tutorial is for the installation of Oracle Java Runtime Environment in 64-bit Fedora systems. The installation process is slightly different from the 32-bit. 1. Install these libraries that needed by Java. yum -y install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 2. Go to the site below and grab the latest version of Java Runtime Environment. http://java.com/en/ IMPORTANT: Make sure to download only the "Linux x64 RPM *". 3. After downloading the file, make it executable and install. read m [..] > read more

How to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14

Published on 2011-03-24 04:44:07

Fedora 14 comes with the open source Java called OpenJDK which is working fine, but if you have issues on it or its not working for whatever reason and you want to install the original Java from Oracle, just follow the tutorial below. This is a straightforward tutorial on how to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14. 1. Install these libraries that needed by Java. Open up your terminal and run this command. yum -y install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 read more > read more

How to enable 1:1 NAT in Iptables

Published on 2010-10-27 18:32:33

1:1 NAT maps a single Public IP Address to one of your computer within your local area network (LAN). Unlike port forwarding, 1:1 NAT forwards all ports from one external IP to one internal IP. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.1.2 -j SNAT --to-source 83.229.64.2 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -d 83.229.64.2 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.2 iptables -A FORWARD -s 83.229.64.2 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -d 192.168.1.2 -j ACCEPT > read more

How to enable Port Forwarding in Iptables

Published on 2010-10-27 18:25:57

What is Port Forwarding Port forwarding allows remote computers, for example, computers on the Internet, to connect to a specific computer or service within a private local area network (LAN). read more > read more

Gmail Video Chat is now available in Fedora

Published on 2010-09-01 09:39:58

RPM version of Gmail video chat for Fedora is now available for download. You can download the file from http://www.google.com/chat/video/download.html > read more

Gmail video chat is now available for Linux Users

Published on 2010-08-20 14:01:47

Gmail video chat now supports Linux, but it supports Debian/Ubuntu systems for now. RPM version for Red Hat/Fedora will be available soon. You can download the plugin here. Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-linux-now-you-can-video-chat-t... > read more