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My wife needs a new computer and I want to wean her off Windows onto Linux. But she likes to play card games when killing time. It appears there is not much available in the repositories for that type of game. She likes to play Canasta, Gin Rummy - that type of game. I doubt Solitaire will interest her. Are there those available for Linux or on-line that she could play on a Ubuntu-MATE or Linux Mint computer? I don't relish using an emulator for games (Wine or a virtual environment).

Any suggestions of where to look? Thanks Last edited by QIII; September 13th, 2015 at 06:29 PM. Reason: typo -- 'Windows'. Well you always have the option of finding browser based card games that don't have to be installed but then you run into the issues of having to have an internet connection to play or you may have to register at some sites in order to play them. I did a quick google search and there alot of online rummy and canasta games. If you guys have Yahoo accounts I know for a fact that Yahoo games has rummy and poker games, not too sure about canasta never really played it.

Last edited by brian-mccumber; September 13th, 2015 at 07:27 PM. Reason: Because I can't tipe worth a carp. I do need to sit her down on one of my Linux boxes. She is not very computer literate. The majority of computer usage is Email. She doesn't even surf the Internet.

She does need to produce a quarterly newsletter for a volunteer group that she currently uses Microsoft publisher for, but I can show her how to use Scribus for that. LibreOffice could be used for the newsletter, but I think Scribus is better for that. Anything dealing with photos she has to ask me to do for her. For her limited us of a computer it just doesn't make sense to pay for Microsoft and then have to pay for anti-virus software.

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It's not surprising, since they had given out so few details about the unit that it became more than a little concerning. It's even more concerning now that it's suddenly 'paused' before it even began.

• Make Sail [Official Site] is a game currently in development that's inspired by the sailing adventures of Wind Waker and the creativity and construction from Kerbal Space Program and it seems it will come to Linux. • • Good and bad news here. ARK: Survival Evolved [Steam] once again works on Linux, but the water rendering is still totally broken on some maps, so you need to do the fix we showed before. • • Factorio [GOG, Steam, Official Site] 0.16 is a huge release for this fantastic early access game and it comes with a lot of shiny new stuff. • • • • Finding Paradise, the follow-up of To the Moon is now officially available on both GOG and Steam as it released with same-day Linux support.

As a reminder, you do not need to have played To the Moon to enjoy it! • • HyperBrawl Tournament [Steam, Official Site], from Milky Tea Studios is an arena based sports combat game and the developer seems keen to get it on Linux. • • Do you want to run some of your top and productive Windows software such as Microsoft Office 2016, Enterprise Architect, including games such as League of Legends, Everquest, WebSite-Watcher Battle on Linux or Mac, then CrossOver 17 is here to help you accomplish just that. FLOSSophobia I have seen it many times. 'Linux is a cancer'.

'Open sauce'. I even remember the teacher who did not bring a laptop for her presentation and, when I offered her my Linux netbook, she rejected it as if I had presented her something illegal. She tried to use an old Windows computer instead but, when the computer failed, she ended up displaying her presentation with my Linux netbook. Clearly, this teacher's position was not based on ignorance or lack of expertise because she knew Linux existed and all she had to do was to display slides.

Her refusal was due to indoctrination: she had learned that Linux and non-Microsoft office suites had to be rejected. Today in Techrights • • • • • • Hands on With elementary OS Powered Centurion Nano Laptop by Alpha Store If you want to buy a new laptop, no doubt you should consider the Centurion line. It will be a good choice for you, Linux aficionado. As well as for your Windows-addicted husband/wife/employees.

The Centurion Nano is certainly not a “gamer” laptop. However, besides that particular use case, and for an interesting price, you will get a very competent computer, 100% compatible with Linux and usable for a broad range of tasks. Tryton and Python Deprecation Warnings • The quest to find a free-software replacement for the QuickBooks accounting tool continues. How To Install Tripwire On Windows.

In this episode, your editor does his best to put Tryton through its paces. Running Tryton proved to be a trying experience, though; this would not appear to be the accounting tool we are searching for.

Tryton is a Python 3 application distributed under the GPLv3 license. Its home page mentions that it is based on PostgreSQL, but there is support for MySQL and SQLite as well. Tryton, it is said, is 'a three-tier high-level general purpose application platform' that is 'the core base of a complete business solution providing modularity, scalability and security'. The 'core base' part of that claim is relevant: Tryton may well be a solid base for the creation of a small-business accounting system, but it is not, out of the box, such a system itself.

• As all Python developers discover sooner or later, Python is a rapidly evolving language whose community occasionally makes changes that can break existing programs. The switch to Python 3 is the most prominent example, but minor releases can include significant changes as well. The CPython interpreter can emit warnings for upcoming incompatible changes, giving developers time to prepare their code, but those warnings are suppressed and invisible by default.

Work is afoot to make them visible, but doing so is not as straightforward as it might seem. In early November, one sub-thread of a big discussion on preparing for the Python 3.7 release focused on the await and async identifiers.

They will become keywords in 3.7, meaning that any code using those names for any other purpose will break. Nick Coghlan observed that Python 3.6 does not warn about the use of those names, calling it 'a fairly major oversight/bug'. In truth, though, Python 3. Windows Thin Pc Iso Free Download. 6 does emit warnings in that case — but users rarely see them.

Mobile Linux: Tizen and Android • • • Magna Research (part of IPG Media) has released their latest count of this year's ad spend. They have been reporting 'digital' spend for many years and finally now, 2017 becomes the first year when TV is dethroned as the largest ad spending platform. Yes this is the year when 'digital' passes TV in global ad spend. In fact, earth-shattering news considering how much TV has been the gorilla in advertising industry for half a century. Digital now rules.

• Security: Vista 10, Ransom, and 'Zealot' • bout 16 months ago, a Google Project Zero researcher found a critical bug in a password manager named Keeper. The bug allowed Keeper to inject its trusted UI into untrusted web pages with a content script. This allowed websites to steal user passwords using techniques like clickjacking.

In a surprising development, Tavis Ormandy, the same researcher, has found that Microsoft bundled the same password manager with Windows 10. “I recently created a fresh Windows 10 VM with a pristine image from MSDN, and found that a password manager called “Keeper” is now installed by default,” he said.

Moreover, a similar flaw was again found in this pre-installed password manager, which remained present for eight days. • • An aggressive and sophisticated malware campaign is currently underway, targeting Linux and Windows servers with an assortment of exploits with the goal of installing malware that mines the Monero cryptocurrency. The campaign was detected by security researchers from F5 Networks, who named it Zealot, after zealot.zip, one of the files dropped on targeted servers. Today's howtos • • • So back in September I was talking about building a IoT Radio, and after that I switched to talking about tracking aircraft via software-defined radio. Perhaps time for a followup. • • Privacy awareness has been thankfully growing steadily across the web, and a number of programs have arisen as a result; Signal, is one such program. I won’t name drop, but enough major players in the world of privacy advocacy have given their seal of approval for Signal, and so I knew I had to check it out for myself.