Remembered ReactOS, the operating system to open code that supplies a complete implementazione of a compatible post a precedence? Well from little days, and, at a distance of little months, of 0,3 with some important innovationes have been released a new version of the series:

• Complete Riscrittura of CM (the Config Manager) in ntoskrnl - also known like support of the registry. This it renders it very more compatible with NT5.2 (win2k3).
• Support SSE/SSE2.
• New driver plug and play of the keyboard and mouse.
• Complete synchronization of all the DLL in “usermode” to the version more recent than Wine.
• The support for RPC and IDL has final state dawned (was remained over a long time span neglected and had various “bug”), supplying a solution for the problems of manager the plug-n-play, the services of ReactOS and promising future support for complex applications like Microsoft Office.
• Massive improvements for user32 that now it uses the heap of the desktop, velocizzando the interface customer.
• Many “fix” of compatibility in gdi32, now the DLL of ReactOS can be loaded and used directly in Windows.
• Continuation of the riscrittura of Win32k incorporating riscritture of functionality of “Core” in order to align itself with win2k3.
• Improvements of many members of Core of the user mode, a shell32 much more work them, applet of the control panel improved and the addition of a client desktop remote.
• Much regional job in the translations, options and of the language.

Other information to the http://www.reactos.org site, while this is the page of download.

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Why to pay in order to acquire games completely when they can some be had much beautiful on linux and gratis?
Beautiful question! The answer is this list of games open source that I have tested on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon for which the procedures of installation marked from the asterisk (are the contained versions in the repo of gutsy) refer this distro; sign instead corresponds to the instructions of installation of the last versions to unload on the sites of the games; here here:

Vegastrike: a beautifulst 3D Spaceflight Simulator that door the player to the exploration of the universe, but at the same time to operate like a merchant who tries to acquire money in order to modernize to the equipments of its ship - Point of download (* I sudo apt-get install vegastrike);

Secret Mario Chronicles: a game in two dimensions whose style is inspired to the old classics as Super Mario - Point of download (* sudo apt-get install smc);

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Beginning this post with large thanks to Alexit, for means of which they have come to acquaintance of a new one, revolutionary plan: a plugin that it succeeds to integrate and to make to interact WiiMote (the controller of the console Niintendo Wii) and compiz-fusion. To speak about this thing makes me detail appeals to because, to beyond the comprehensible fibrillation that it provokes in the fans of technology, it introduces of the even ethical implications: thoughts to the advantages that would draw the disabili persons from a device that allows to command the PC with simple movements of the head…
All it has taken to the way from the idea of a sviluppatore American, a sure Johnny Chung Lee, than using of the Led to infrared with to the WiiMote it is successful to construct an able system to find the movements of the head and to command with they the screen. This job has been resumed from two sviluppatori of compiz-fusion (SmSpillaz and Oasisgames) that they have created Wiitrack plugin that integral a job of Johnny Chung Lee exactly with compiz.
Here the video that us extension the first steps of this technology:

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It makes a large one to speak about 2,0 web and here ready a browser that it seems to pick of fully the potentialities. Flock is born at first like extension of firefox till becoming a browser absolutely independent that, takes advantage of the powerful motor of the “vixen”, but of it develops to the functions with detail attention to the social network like My World, of the .icio.us, twitter, flickr, youtube…
In order to install it on any distro linux enough to carry out the download from here, and to save it in the folder home. To open a shell with privileges of root and typing tar - C /home/yourusername - xzvf flock-*.linux-i686.tar.gz.
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To not of they want the possessory ones me of cards nVidia, but I cannot not gioire for these continuous releases of Amd, than finally it has been decided to totally support and with enviable frequency the world linux. In fact little time from the release of driver the 7,12 here that the 8,1 arrive that more promises to new improvements and a evolven support to the detailed lists open source.
New supported operating systems: Enteprise Linux RedHat 5.1, Enteprise Linux RedHat 4,6, Ubuntu 7,10 (Feisty Gibbon).
Resolved problems: eliminated quelfastidioso problem in the angle low to right of the display or on the gunlayer of the mouse after that the system is in function for along period of time, support to the resolution 1680×1050, custom mode more not ignored in xorg.conf, suspension of RAM or DISC on the version of kernel the 2.6.23 finally to place.
Ulterior deepenings on the site amd.

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