ManiaDrive describes itself as "an arcade car game on acrobatic tracks, with a quick and nervous gameplay (tracks almost never exceed one minute)" and also as a clone of Trackmania.
What I can tell you is that ManiaDrive is a lot of fun, and extremely addictive at that.
Download the game from the site and on Linux, simply extract the archive and run ./mania_drive.sh. You will need 3D support …
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Manslide is Qt-based application for making slideshows out of a set of images on Linux.
You're unlikely to find it in any package manager right now, so you'll need to download the binary package, extract it and then run ./Manslide.
The first time you launch it, the introduction screen will be in French.
Fair enough, I suppose, and it is easy enough to switch it into your preferred …
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FOSSwire has been around since October 2006. That means we've got a pretty impressive (if I do say so myself) back catalogue of posts on all sorts of FOSS and Linux related things.
You can search our archives by using the Google-powered search box on the homepage, but what if you'd like even closer access to our posts from any site? Well, now you can add FOSSwire to your browser's …
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Peter shows you how to install the new WordPress 2.5 on your local machine, using Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL.
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