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 Phun
"A great 2D Sandbox Game with Fun Physics and many options to create things. You can invent anything you can think of: machines, towers, cars, abstract fantasy stuff, etc. Start from scratch or choose from a few previously made inventions.
Get inspired by all the Youtube videos and take a glimpse at the well made Tutorial Section of the Site (how to create cars, catapults etc)." (Review)
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 PyChess
"With this program, you can play against the GNU Chess engine or lots of other chess engines, such as the Crafty engine. You can also play Internet chess by connecting to the FICS servers.
It allows for saving games in the PGN, EPD and FEN chess file formats so that you can always return to continue with the games or analyze them. It also offers opening books and other useful features including undo moves, hint and spy modes, sound and animation effects." (Review)
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HOXChess
"A well designed open source Chinese Chess application with highly configurable user interface and multi engines for you to choose from. You can also easily connect to multi remote Xiangqi servers to play the game online." (Review)
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 Frozen Bubble
"Designed with colorful 3D rendered penguin animations and 15 stereo sound effects, Frozen Bubble comes with editable 100 levels for 1-player game, or hours and hours of 2-player game. You can also choose to have multi-player game over the local area network or Internet.
Play this game with the left or right key to aim your shot and up key to fire. Hone your skills in speed and accuracy before the bubbles get frozen!" (Review)
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 Numpty Physics
"An excellent open source and multi-platform physics game with 35 built-in levels. It has more to offer than the free prototype of Crayon Physics Deluxe.
You're able to draw custom shapes and have access to all levels at once, so you don't have to worry if you get stuck at a level. The sketches look more like what a 3-year old has drawn and don't have the professional feel of Crayon Physics. But who cares? I'm also not an artist!" (Review)
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Picpuz
"Create and solve puzzles, save and open puzzle files, set tile sizes, solving a puzzle by swapping pieces or with a helpful solver." (Review)
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PipeWalker
Solve this casual puzzle in building a piping or network system by connecting all scattered pieces with your logic and skill. With support for four map sizes, themes and auto save, it has multiple levels for you to figure out. A binary package is available here for Ubuntu and compatible distros.
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Pingus
Play a free clone of the popular Lemmings game and guide as many penguins as possible to build bridges, climb, bash and use their talents to reach home before they fall into traps. Optional sound effects and music, plenty of level sets and even a level editor are available for challenging your skills.
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PANDA-glGo
"2D and 3D boards, adjustable board size and engine strength, play online or offline, etc." (Review)
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 HoDoKu
An open source program allows you to generate sudoku puzzles in five different and configurable difficulty levels. It also includes a solver and an analyzer to help you solve the puzzles.
While playing the game, you can select to view a summary of solving techniques and solution paths. When you click on a solution path, it highlights the steps on the corresponding grid to help you analyze the game. (Review)
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 Urban Terror
"Described as fun over realism by the creators, the game has fast paced, intense game-play. Urban Terror doesn't throw realism to the wind mind you, but rather tries to enhance game-play with elements like powerslides and wallhops.
Five different game types, over a thousand servers, plenty of players to go around and no waiting for people to show up." (Review)
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 LBreakout2
"An extremely polished Breakout Clone features a two-player mode (local or over the internet or LAN), fine animations and graphics, excellent controls, the ability to save a game, a level editor, and a turbo key.
This game gets regular Level Set updates. The fun continues well beyond when you have mastered the 50+ levels." (Review)
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KReversi
"7-level of difficulty, clean and helpful interface, show legal moves and last move, undo moves, hints, animation, etc." (Review)
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 BillardGL
"A brilliantly crafted open-sourced freeware game that affords play of either 8-Ball or 9-Ball. The 3D graphics are second-to-none and the physics appear to be flawless.
The user interface is simple and the controls straightforward. As you assess your next shot, you can view the table layout from any perspective you want, roaming and zooming and peering." (Review)
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Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube FPS:
http://sauerbraten.org/
Other games from the same developer:
http://cubeengine.com/
Bombermaaan - A classic Bomberman game with multiplayer support:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bombermaaan/
Unvanquished is an open-source first-person shooter combining real-time strategy elements with a futuristic, sci-fi setting:
http://www.unvanquished.net/
Mega Mario:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmario/?source=directory
The Bub's Brothers:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bub-n-bros/?source=directory
Cubosphere:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cubosphere/
FreeOrion is an open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest (4X) computer game:
http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/Main_Page
Open Sonic is an open-source game based on the "Sonic the Hedgehog" universe. It introduces a different style of gameplay called cooperative play, in which it's possible to control 3 characters simultaneously. Unlike most similar games, Open Sonic provides a greater level of interaction between the player and the levels. It's more than just a jump'n'run; the user must come up with some strategy in order to get through the levels:
http://opensnc.sourceforge.net/home/index.php
LinCity-NG is a city simulation game. In the game, you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lincity-ng.berlios/
Cream - a modern configuration of the Vim text editor:
http://cream.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/?source=dlp
http://cream.sourceforge.net/featurelist.html
King Arthur's Gold Free Version - 2D Strategy:
http://kag2d.com/en/
Citadel
Features:
* Email, calendaring, address books, bulletin boards, instant messaging, and more … all in one tightly integrated server package. Unlike other open source groupware systems, all of Citadel's data stores are built-in. All that tedious mucking about with dependencies and config files is a thing of the past.
* High-performance, multiprotocol, multithreaded server engine
* Wiki and blog engines built in. Citadel is a collaboration server and a content management system!
* Web browser, telnet/SSH, local client software accessible
* Standards-compliant e-mail built in: IMAP, POP3, ESMTP
* Group calendaring and scheduling (WebDAV, GroupDAV, and Kolab-1 compatible)
* Built-in listserv (mailing list server)
* Integrated server-side mail sorting and filtering. Users can choose between an easy-to-use web based rules editor, or the power of writing complex scripts using the industry standard Sieve language.
* Support for push e-mail and mobile devices
* Database-driven, single-instance message store
* Built-in full text index for fast searching
* Authenticated SMTP for remote email submission
* Multiple domain support
* Built-in integration with perimiter email filtering technologies such as Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBL's), SpamAssassin, and ClamAV antivirus
* Server-to-server replication. Users in any number of domains can be spread out across any number of Citadel servers, allowing you to put data where you need it, and enabling infinite horizontal scalability.
* Web-based access to email, calendars, and everything else through a powerful AJAX-style front end
* Very strong support for “public folders” and message forums.
* Built-in instant messenger service
* SSL/TLS encryption for all protocols
* Citadel is true open source software. Unlike other groupware servers, it isn't a cut-down version of an expensive proprietary “pro” version. We make our very best work available to everyone on the same terms. 100% of our code is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL3).
http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/doku.php?id=start
Mari0 - Mario game with Portal gun mechanics:
http://stabyourself.net/mari0/
Ortho Robot is a perspective based puzzle game, where you flatten the view to move across gaps. Your objective is to reach the ending green block (either by standing directly on it or standing on it in relative space). For some extra challenge, try to collect all coins and perfect your time, steps and number of warps:
http://stabyourself.net/orthorobot/
Ever wondered how Pacman would be like with physics? No? Well, it's revolutionary. This mashup of "Not" and "Pacman" puts The Pac and the Ghosts in a in a Pacworld cage, at mercy of gravity and the level's shape, controlled solely by you. Ghosts still don't like you very much, so you should be careful to make Pacman avoid them:
http://stabyourself.net/notpacman/
xvidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off yourX-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap/
Red Rogue - a side-scrolling roguelike-like computer game:
http://redrogue.net/
TiffanyScreens is a presentation tool, capturing the content of the presenter's screen and sending it to multiple other computer screens at the same time (free version is limited to just three peers in a group):
http://www.tiffanyscreens.com/index.html
Extreme Tux Racer is an open-source downhill racing game starring Tux, the Linux mascot:
http://extremetuxracer.com/
FooBillard - free 3D OpenGL billard game:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/foobillard/
BomberClone:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bomberclone/
KBounce is a single player arcade game with the elements of puzzle. It is played on a field, surrounded by wall, with two or more balls that move about in the field bouncing off of walls. The player can build new walls, decreasing the size of active field:
http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=kbounce
LBreakout2:
http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2
Pipewalker - This is a puzzle game in which you need to combine the components into a single circuit: connect all computers to a network server, bring water to the taps, etc:
http://pipewalker.sourceforge.net/
Berusky is a 2D logic game:
http://anakreon.cz/?q=node/1
Crack Attack!:
http://www.aluminumangel.org/attack/#screen%20shots
Regnum Online:
http://www.regnumonlinegame.com/
Update:
PipeWalker now added.
LBreakout2 has been in the list. BillardGL is included as it's rated higher than FooBilliard in this review.
Will look at many others that you've suggested.
Evince with Hand tool:
"... This PPA provides slightly enhanced Evince document viewer that pan scroll mode (like "Hand tool" in Adobe Reader) is added. It's probably suitable for touch panel based computers ...":
https://launchpad.net/~irie/+archive/evince
Red Eclipse is a single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, completely at the control of map makers, while maintaining a general theme of agility in a variety of environments:
http://www.redeclipse.net/
SuperTuxKart is a Mario Kart-like arcade racing game featuring the Linux mascot Tux:
http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/
DMDE Free Edition is a powerful software for data searching, editing, and recovery on FAT and NTFS disks:
http://softdm.com/
tcplay is a free, pretty much fully featured (including multiple keyfiles, cipher cascades, etc.) and stable TrueCrypt implementation.
This implementation supports mapping (opening) both system and normal TrueCrypt volumes, as well as opening hidden volumes and opening an outer volume while protecting a hidden volume. There is also support to create volumes, including hidden volumes, etc.:
https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play#readme
Starbuck's FreePlayer is a simple and complete media player based on the powerful MPlayer project (version for Linux is still in testing phase):
http://www.labdv.com/freeplayer/
Subvein: Mutant Factions is a free multiplayer action game. It has over 20 weapons, a strategic skills system, crazy vehicles and countless user-generated maps. It's tactical, fast-paced and most importantly, fun:
http://subvein.net/
gscan2pdf - A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. It should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.
Features
* Compatible with any SANE-capable scanner
* Crop, threshold & clean up scan
* Reorder pages via DND
* Write multi-page scan to PDF, DjVu or TIFF
* Write single scans to any format supported by ImageMagick
* Ocropus & tesseract support
* Place OCR output at boundary boxes supplied by Ocropus
* Incorporate PDF metadata in filename
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/
Reditr was designed to serve as a simple to navigate client for Reddit:
http://reditr.com/
"... rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++, based on the libTorrent libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is “a focus on high performance and good code” ... On high-bandwidth connections, it claims to be able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client ..."
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/
"... BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system ...":
http://www.busybox.net/about.html
Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper:
http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer
Asunder is a graphical Audio CD ripper and encoder:
http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/
Rubyripper is a secure digital audio extraction application. It uses cdparanoia error correcting power and it's own secure ripping algorithm to make sure that a CD rip is done successfully and accurately:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper
Thanks Panzer. Asunder is on the list. Will check out the other two.
DraftSight lets professional CAD users, students and educators create, edit and view DWG files:
http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/
TideSDK - Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript:
http://www.tidesdk.org/
Project Diaspora - Space style MMO RPG 2D with upgradeable ships and expandable environment:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdiaspora/
NoPriv.py - HTML5 IMAP email backup
NoPriv.py is a python script to backup any IMAP capable email account to a HTML archive, nicely browsable, instead of weird folders (Maildir), one huge file (mbox), only needing a Eeb Browser to view (Thunderbird) and no proprietary Code, so you can make sure it steal your password:
https://raymii.org/s/software/Nopriv.py.html
Liferea:
Features:
* Read articles when offline.
* Never read headlines twice from multiple devices!
* Full Google Reader and TinyTinyRSS sync!
* Supports Google Reader labels (folders)!
* Permanently save headlines in news bins.
* Match items using search folders.
http://lzone.de/liferea/
Yes Panzer, Liferea has been on the list.
NX Free Edition - A complete solution for remote access to your Linux workstation. It allows 2 users to connect at the same time no matter what their location is, and share the desktop:
http://www.nomachine.com/products.php
Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. All high-level WM functions are implemented in Lisp for future extensibility or redefinition. These are some of the features that set Sawfish apart from other window managers:
* Powerful key-binding: Virtually every function provided by Sawfish can be bound to keys (or mouse buttons).
* Event hooking: For many events (moving windows etc.) you can customize the way Sawfish will respond.
* Window matching: When windows are created you can match them to a set of rules and automatically perform actions on them.
* Flexible theming: Sawfish allows for very different themes to be created and a variety of third-party themes are readily available.
http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
AeroFS allows you to sync, share, and backup files easily between all your devices and your friends:
https://www.aerofs.com/features
Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network.
Bitcoin is also the name of the open source software which enables the use of this currency:
http://bitcoin.org/