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Naev is a 2D space trading and combat game similar to Escape Velocity, many of you may have played before. Escape Velocity which have a huge fan following, inspired many games and NAEV is one of them. Naev can be played on many Linux distros and is tested on Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora and Arch Linux.

Urban Terror is one of the most popular Linux multi-player first person shooter (FPS) game played by hundreds of players daily. The cross-platform game that runs on Windows and Mac as well comes with many multiplayer game modes like team survivor, team deathmatch, capture the flag, capture and hold etc.

Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' has been released few minutes back as part of 6 months release cycle and it is the first release that follows Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx' Long Term Support (LTS).

GMapCatcher is an offline map viewer utility that allows users to view maps without a need of Internet connection once they are loaded.The utility also allows you to download full maps to your hard disk.

FreetuxTV is a TV player for Linux that lets you watch free Web TV Channels and listen to Radio. The application that runs on VLC backend comes with lots of pre-added channels for many languages. The most interesting feature is the ability to record TV shows while you are away.

Arcade shooter game Steel Storm Episode 1 version 1.0 is released which was only available as beta until now. The game is quite addictive with fast paced action that wants you to annihilate hordes of enemies . Episode 1 is available as free download for Linux, Mac and Windows users.

The media has been abuzz with OpenOffice being forked into LibreOffice by The Document Foundation in past few days. The Document Foundation, has already released a beta version of Libre Office that can be installed on Ubuntu.Please note that LibreOffice is still a beta version and not meant for production purposes.

Ubuntu 10.10 codenamed 'Maverick Meerkat' just reached to Release Candidate version. I have been testing Ubuntu 10.10 from 2nd Alpha onwards. The development have been going at fast pace with constant addition of new features and bug fixes. The new version has become a lot more stable since the alpha and is already past feature freeze and final freeze. With bug fixes and updates everyday the developers are looking at a perfect launch on October,10.

Firefox have many add-ons that are created specially for Ubuntu Users like TerminalRun. Chromium extension developers were not ready to fall behind and created couple of extensions that are specially suited for Ubuntu users. So I decided to share these two extensions available as of now.

Gespeaker 'Text to Speech' utility is a GTK+ frontend for Espeak , that allows you to listen to text in many different languages. The utility also allows you to listen received messages from Empathy and others instant messengers.

Many times we face a situation when our Ubuntu Netbook becomes pretty slow. And when we check out our RAM, we find that only half of our RAM is used and the SWAP memory usage is gone upto 25% or 50% or even more. Confused?? Swap memory is used as an alternative to RAM. It is a small partition in the hard disk, that is used to give your system extra memory when your RAM is full. However, it is not as efficient as RAM and quite slow.

OpenShot video editor is one of the best video editor available for Linux platform. The development has been really fast and the video editor has come a long way. The video editor is developed by Jonathan Thomas. The new version comes with lots of features:

If you are looking for nice application that displays the lyrics as the song plays and if you love to sing along then there is a really nice application that can turn your system into a karaoke machine. OSD lyrics displays lyrics of any song that you play through your music player. It automatically downloads the required lyrics from different sources. Just turn it on and you are ready to go.

RhythmArty plugin for Rhythmbox lets you browse your music collection via an 'Album Art Display', one of the things that has been missing from Rhythmbox for a long time.