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...

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...