About 120 countries are trying to use the Net as a weapon to target financial markets, government computers, and utilities, McAfee says. A “cyber cold war” waged over the world’s computers threatens to become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade, according to a…

World faces ‘cyber cold war’ threat, report says

Slackware Linux today features a powerful and easy-to-use package management system, but making Slackware packages has not always been straightforward. Now Slackware application developers have a tool for easily making Slackware packages from source code and precompiled binaries. Src2pkg, now in version 1.6, very nearly lives up to its author’s tag of being Slackware’s “magic package maker.”

Slackware’s “magic package maker”

By James Archibald
27 November, 2007

As we begin to slip into the festive season and things begin winding up for the year, we thought it would be an ideal opportunity to check out some of the best Linux games available.

We are opening nominations for the games to be entered into a poll for the best Linux games available.

The requirements for games to be included are:

- they must run on Linux, without Wine
- they must be completely free
- they must be a complete game and not an add-on to a commercial game
- installation must be relatively easy

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