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The desktop publishing program Scribus is capable of producing professional looking page layouts, similar to Adobe PageMaker.

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FreeCol - Open Source Version of Colonization

Saturday July 5, 2008
The project FreeCol is developing a turn-based strategy game similar to Colonization. It is in the same category as the popular PC game Civilization, but with somewhat different objectives. Read more...

Archiving With The zip And unzip Commands

Friday July 4, 2008
The zip program is a useful tool for archiving or transferring a set of files. A simple command like "zip archive dir" can quickly package a whole directory into a single compressed archive file (often called "zip file"). Depending on the type of files being packaged, the size of the archive often gets compressed to a fraction of the size of the original files. Read more...

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