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Crazy Taxi used to be an arcade game found in most arcades and restaurants near the racing games. Now you can race around the silly town picking up customers. Smash cars, jump rivers, drive through obects on the sidewalk and find hidden routes to your passengers destination.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Crazy Taxi in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Crazy Taxi. Other versions may require additional steps.Tips & Specs:
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 18.3 64-bit

PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.0

Wine Installation
Click Tools

Select “Manage Wine Versions”

Look for the Wine Version: 3.0

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 3.0 is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com

Click Install Steam

Do not click “Install Steam Now”

It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click “Windows” under the green button

Navigate to your desktop

Click Save

PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux

Click Install

Click “install a non-listed program”

Click Next

Select “Install a program in a new virtual drive”

Click Next

Name your virtual drive: crazytaxi

No spaces
Click Next

Check all three options:

 

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next

Select Wine 3.0

Click Next

Select “32 bits windows installation”

Click Next

Configure WineApplications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7

Click Apply

Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows

Click Ok

PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL’s)

Check the following libraries:

 

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2010

Click Next

Note: All packages will automatically download and installInstalling Steam
Click Browse

Navigate to your desktop

Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open

Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license…

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam

Click the “X” to close Steam login

PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe

Click Next

Name your shortcut: Crazy Taxi

Click Next

Select “I don’t want to make another shortcut”

Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux

Click Configure

General Tab
Wine Version: 3.0

Arguments: -no-dwrite
This fixes any missing font problems

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wineDisplay Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses

Close Configure

Steam Server Error
Before launching Steam you will get a Server Error for every game

Navigate to your game’s wineprefix:

Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/alienbreed3/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/config/
Open config.vdf with a text editor

Copy this code below

Code:

“CS” “valve511.steamcontent.com;valve530.steamcontent.com;valve548.steamcontent.com;valve539.steamcontent.com;valve519.steamcontent.com;valve555.steamcontent.com;valve504.steamcontent.com;valve529.steamcontent.com;valve558.steamcontent.com;valve500.steamcontent.com;valve561.steamcontent.com;valve532.steamcontent.com;valve540.steamcontent.com;valve502.steamcontent.com;valve544.steamcontent.com;valve528.steamcontent.com;valve556.steamcontent.com;valve520.steamcontent.com;valve542.steamcontent.com;valve538.steamcontent.com;valve551.steamcontent.com;valve521.steamcontent.com;valve564.steamcontent.com;valve516.steamcontent.com;valve535.steamcontent.com;valve541.steamcontent.com;valve533.steamcontent.com;valve536.steamcontent.com;valve557.steamcontent.com;valve559.steamcontent.com;valve537.steamcontent.com;valve508.steamcontent.com;valve525.steamcontent.com;valve565.steamcontent.com;valve566.steamcontent.com;valve514.steamcontent.com;valve545.steamcontent.com;valve517.steamcontent.com;valve547.steamcontent.com;valve549.steamcontent.com;valve503.steamcontent.com;valve515.steamcontent.com;valve506.steamcontent.com;valve562.steamcontent.com;valve526.steamcontent.com;valve543.steamcontent.com;valve522.steamcontent.com;valve518.steamcontent.com;valve509.steamcontent.com;valve550.steamcontent.com;valve552.steamcontent.com;valve505.steamcontent.com;valve553.steamcontent.com;valve512.steamcontent.com;valve546.steamcontent.com;valve554.steamcontent.com;valve510.steamcontent.com;valve563.steamcontent.com;valve501.steamcontent.com;valve531.steamcontent.com;valve523.steamcontent.com;valve524.steamcontent.com;valve507.steamcontent.com;valve560.steamcontent.com;valve567.steamcontent.com;valve513.steamcontent.com;valve1601.steamcontent.com;valve164.steamcontent.com;valve1615.steamcontent.com;valve1602.steamcontent.com;valve1604.steamcontent.com;valve1608.steamcontent.com;valve1603.steamcontent.com;valve1606.steamcontent.com;valve1609.steamcontent.com;valve1618.steamcontent.com;valve1617.steamcontent.com;valve1613.steamcontent.com;valve1607.steamcontent.com;valve1611.steamcontent.com;valve1614.steamcontent.com;valve1619.steamcontent.com;valve1616.steamcontent.com;valve1612.steamcontent.com;valve1610.steamcontent.com;valve165.steamcontent.com;valve1605.steamcontent.com;valve954.steamcontent.com;valve955.steamcontent.com;valve904.steamcontent.com;valve901.steamcontent.com;valve957.steamcontent.com;valve953.steamcontent.com;valve956.steamcontent.com;valve950.steamcontent.com;valve905.steamcontent.com;valve952.steamcontent.com;valve902.steamcontent.com;valve907.steamcontent.com;valve958.steamcontent.com”
Go to the line

“InstallConfigStore”
{
“Software”
{
“Valve”
{
“Steam”
{
“CM”

Paste in a new line under the “CM” line with all the IP Addresses

Save config.vdf

Launching Steam
Select Crazy Taxi

Click Run

Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Click “Login to existing account”

Login

Find Crazy Taxi in your Steam Library

Click Install

• Uncheck “Created desktop shortcut”
• Uncheck “Create start menu shortcut”

Click Next

Click Play

Check “Configure Crazy Taxi”

Click Play

Adjust:

 

• Resolution
• V-Sync
• FXAA
• Windowed

Click the Play arrow

Conclusion:
Crazy Taxi ran perfectly on my GeForce GTX 1060 in 1920×1080 resolution. I didn’t have any bugs or problems except the Steam server error/hack. I was also able to configure my Xbox controller in the Setup and play the game just fine.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

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You may not even bother to care but fonts are one of the most crucial things that every single computer system in the world must have. Fonts enable the machine to communicate with us, humans, in the form of human languages. Computers don’t understand what “P” or “d” is. All they know is binary numbers – 1 and 0. There are tons of available fonts in the world that can enhance your system to look more attractive and soothing. On the internet, you can find out a number of available fonts for all the platforms. Ubuntu is one of the major Linux distros, used by thousands of people every day. Let’s have a look at installing fonts on Ubuntu.

Before you install a font, you have to get them first. There are a number of sources for getting cool and brilliant fonts. There are tons of available source but I like Google Fonts the most. Feel free to grab all your font(s) you like from anywhere you like.

Collected all your favorite fonts? Good! Time to install them in your system!

Installing fonts

I’ll be using Thunar file manager for this purpose as it’s more advanced and offers better control over your actions. Run the following commands –

# Install Thunar
sudo apt install thunar

# Start Thunar
sudo thunar

Grab all your font files (TTF/OTF files) and combine them in one place.

Select all and copy the fonts.

Now, navigate to “/home/<username>”.

Press “Ctrl + H” to enable showing hidden file(s)/folder(s).

Create a new folder “.fonts”.

Paste all the fonts into the folder.

Rebuild system font cache.

Restart your system to make sure that all the apps know about the fonts.

Ensuring font integration with the system

Font installation is complete, time to check things out. Start LibreOffice Writer.

All the fonts are installed successfully!

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Over its long history, the Apache HTTP Server Project (commonly referred to as just Apache) had dominated the web server market and even now in 2018, it continues to hold the top spot, according to a number of different measures.

The most recent release of Apache is version 2.4.37 which became generally available on Oct. 23, providing a series of updates that will help the open source project to continue to hold its top spot.

“The Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 represents a continuing marvel of a journey through Open Source history,” Daniel Gruno, Vice President of Apache HTTP Server, wrote in a statement. “More than four thousand people have contributed directly to the project during its lifetime, and one dare say many more will contribute, as we continue a steady pace at the very forefront of Web server software engineering.”

New Features

Among the new features that have landed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 is is full support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 specification. TLS 1.3 is the latest evolution of the SSL/TLS specification which encrypts data in motion across the internet. TLS 1.3 was approved as a formal IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standard in March.

Additional enhancements in the 2.4.37 update provide improved seep and upgraded efficiency for the web server.

“Keeping pace with the major browsers and servers, this release is another step in our collective journey to a more secure Internet,” Daniel Ruggeri, Apache HTTP Server committer and v2.4.37 Release Manager, wrote in a statement. “We are in an exciting time in the Web technology space, and are proud to keep a great server on top of its game.”

In the past, Apache had maintained multiple branches of the web server, but that’s no longer the case in 2018. The Apache 2.2.x series hit its end of life stage in 2017 and is no longer actively maintained.

Apache Usage

In recent years, Apache has come under increasing competitive pressure from rivals, most notably the nginx web server.

According to Netcraft’s October 2018 Web Server Survey, Apache still holds the lead in terms of active sites on the internet with 57.6 million active sites, down from 70.8 million sites in September. In contrast, Nginx powered 42.2 million active sites in October, up from 39.9 million in September.

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at ServerWatch and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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System76 has launched a line of mostly open hardware, Ubuntu-equipped “Thelio” desktop PCs built in Colorado with a choice of AMD and Intel CPUs.

We don’t regularly cover mainstream desktop and laptop computers, even when they ship with Linux, but System76’s Thelio is anything but mainstream. The x86-based Thelio computers are preloaded with either Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or the same Ubuntu-based, encryption enhanced Pop!_OS! distro that appears on its Linux-based laptops such as last year’s Intel Coffee Lake based Galago Pro. Unlike the Denver-based company’s earlier systems, this is fan-cooled desktop PC with a custom chassis built primarily with open source hardware (see farther below).

Thelio, Thelio Major, and Thelio Massive (left) and internal view
(click images to enlarge)

 

The gaming ready Thelio line is available in three models with AMD or Intel processors and a variety of customizations including additional graphics cards, M.2 storage devices, and more. All the systems ship standard in either Walnut or Maple styling with 802.11ac (WiFi 5) with Bluetooth, as well as the base level RAM shown below.

The systems default to a 250GB NVMe M.2 SSD, with other M.2 and SATA storage options ranging to 24TB (Thelio), 46TB (Major), and 86TB (Massive). You pay extra for keyboard, mouse, display, speakers. You also pay for higher-end or additional CPU and GPU, as well as additional RAM and storage.

The Thelio, Thelio Major, and Thelio Massive are detailed here in their default configurations and prices:

• Thelio — Ryzen 5 2400G with 4x dual-threaded 3.6GHz/3.9GHz cores (optional extra cost Ryzen 7 or Intel Core); 8GB to 32GB DDR4; 324 x 207 x 209mm; $1,099 and up
• Thelio Major — Ryzen Threadripper 1900X with 8x, dual-threaded 3.8GHz/4.0GHz cores (or Intel Core X-Series); Radeon RX 5500 GPU with 2GB RAM and 512 cores; 16GB to 128GB DDR4; 1300W power supply; 462 x 262 x 408mm; $2,299 and up
• Thelio Massive — Intel Xeon Bronze 3104 with 6x single-threaded 1.7GHz cores (optional, extra-cost dual-threaded Xeons with 8x to 28x cores and/or CPU option for second Xeon 3104); Radeon RX 5500 GPU with 2GB RAM and 512 cores; 16GB to 384GB DDR4 (768GB with 2nd Xeon); 1600W power supply; 492 x 262 x 527mm; $2,899 and up

All three Thelio system are available with optional GPU boards that can be used in conjunction with integrated graphics. As shown in the spec list below, the choice of GPU also dictates what display ports you get.

Thelio internal views
(click images to enlarge)

 

The base level Thelio lets you choose between the AMD Radeon RX 550/580, Nvidia GeForce 2070/2080, and Titan V graphics cards, or if you’re going with an Intel Core system, the built-in Intel UHD Graphics 630. The Major and Massive systems offer a slightly broader range of choices shown below, and can also load up to 4x GPUs, as long as you don’t mix and match AMD and Nvidia modules:

• Radeon RX 550: 1× DisplayPort, 1× HDMI, 1× DVI
• Radeon RX 580: 3× DisplayPort, 1× HDMI, 1× DVI
• RX Vega 64: 3× DisplayPort, 1× HDMI
• GeForce RTX 2070: 3× DisplayPort, 1× HDMI, 1× USB Type-C
• GeForce RTX 2080: 3× DisplayPort, 1× HDMI, 1× USB Type-C
• GeForce RTX 2080Ti: × DisplayPort, 1× HDMI, 1× USB Type-C
• Titan V: 3× DisplayPort, 1× HDMI

The standard Thelio and the Thelio Massive each ship with 2x GbE ports while the Major only has one. The Thelio provides 4x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports and a single USB 3.1 Type-C port. The Major adds a bank of 4x USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports for 8x host ports overall, and the Massive offers 10x USB 3.0 ports, but no Type-C port. The Massive also adds 2x eSATA ports and an S/PDIF port in addition to the standard trio of audio jacks found on all the systems.

Thelio rear view (left) and homegrown Thelio Io board
(click images to enlarge)

 

The Thelio features oversized fans and heat pipes that rapidly draw heat from the CPU. Ducts direct the hot air out of the system. “”To maximize performance, Thelio is constructed to prevent throttling of all components inside,” says System76.

A homegrown, open source Thelio Io daughter board acts as a chassis controller, hard drive backplane, and thermal controller. The Thelio thermal system uses motherboard data, fan speed, and GPU and OS data to coordinate optimal airflow. The Thelio Massive offers an additional home-grown open source board: referred to as an SAS backplane for high performance 2.5-inch PCIe storage.

Aiming for open hardware

The Thelio systems are OSHWA certified open hardware, offering the same open source CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license used by the BeagleBone boards. You also get GPLv3 licensed, Ubuntu based firmware.

Like Olimex’s community backed Teres-A64 laptop, Thelio is not as open source as your typical open-spec hacker board. This is due to the variety of components demanded by PC customers that are hard to find with open source licensing. In addition, like most hacker boards — with the exception of SiFive’s expensive, RISC-V based HiFive Unleashed development board — it’s powered by mostly proprietary CPUs and GPUs.

Thelio, Thelio Major, and Thelio Massive
(click image to enlarge)

 

Nevertheless, the Thelio systems are said to be certified by

OSHWA

(Open Source Hardware Association) as being open hardware. As explained in System76’s

blog entry

on open hardware, every effort was made to select open source components or build them inhouse.

In the past, like fellow Linux laptop specialists ZaReason, System76 has primarily been a system integrator, offering highly customizable laptops pre-loaded with Linux. For the Thelio, however, it built its own factory and manufactured the chassis and some of the components itself. “To remove functionality from the proprietary mainboard,” System76 designed the open source Thelio Io daughter board.

As celebrated in the betanews story that alerted us the Thelio, the computer is also notable for being primarily made in the U.S. This may not mean much if you live elsewhere, but it’s a selling point for some U.S. buyers ranging from American Firsters to environmentally conscious techno-locavores.

Further information

The Thelio computers are available for pre-order starting at $1,099, with shipments beginning in early December. More information may be found on System76’s Thelio product page (specs are at the bottom), which offers links to individual shopping configurator pages. Thelio and Thelio Io design files may be found on the Thelio GitHub page.

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By Jack M. Germain, Nov 2, 2018 11:52 AM PT

Feren OS is a nice alternative to Linux Mint and an easy stepping stone to transition to Linux from Microsoft Windows or macOS.

I am a long-time user of Linux Mint, but I am falling out of love with it. Mint is getting stale. It is annoyingly sluggish at times. I run it on a number of computers and experience the same symptoms on a variety of hardware configurations. Linux Mint is starting to suffer from a developmental malaise.

That diagnosis started me thinking about a suitable replacement distro that runs the Cinnamon desktop with a bit more innovation and flare. Not everyone finds the Cinnamon desktop to be an ideal computing environment. However, for me, Cinnamon offers the best all-around combination of features, productivity and ease of use.

Feren OS, with its tweaking of the Cinnamon desktop and other enhancements, is a very appealing replacement candidate. Plus, the developers plan to release a KDE edition as a desktop option in about 18 months.

Smart Strategy

What also makes Feren OS attractive is its developmental strategy. This distro follows a partial rolling release schedule that provides constant updates to the OS for its lifetime.

A true rolling release ensures that you never have to handle ISO installations again. That means no more configuring settings and getting the upgrade working with the same look and feel as the current version.

Feren OS pushes software updates and security patches as they are ready. At predetermined intervals, you can download an updated snapshot and let the software manager automatically integrate the latest core elements and system upgrades.

The latest snapshot upgrade came three months after the previous update. This process spares you from having to rebuild your system each time a new version is released. This modified rolling release feature is essential and convenient.

For example, it eliminates the hassle of upgrading each major new release on my cadre of Linux computers. Inevitably, one or two of my computers upgrade Linux Mint successfully over-the-air from the Mint repository.

I am always stuck having to do a fresh new installation on the other computers I use, or just skipping the upgrade entirely. A glitch always seems to find a weak spot in my hardware even though the installed version had no compatibility issues.

Feren’s Heritage

Feren OS is a desktop Linux distribution based on Linux Mint 19. It ships with the Cinnamon desktop environment and includes the WINE compatibility layer for running Windows applications.

Feren OS is a young entry in the crowded field of up and coming Linux operating systems. The distro first appeared in late 2015. The developers grew the Linux Mint alternative into a very polished computing platform in a relatively short period of time. It has its own personality, so you will not feel like you are using a Mint clone.

The U.S.-based developer last month released a new stable version of Feren OS, called “October snapshot.” The latest release comes with a number of desktop tweaks and is also available for 32-bit computers, something of an oddity today. The 32-bit architecture is aging and is suitable only for very old computers.

The latest Feren OS update has no big surprises or major improvements. It simply adds more spit and polish to an already fine-tuned operating system. Most of the work has been done improving the back end of many of Feren’s own applications.

I like the concept of downloading Feren OS once and staying updated forever. This October snapshot brings it completely up to date. Out of the box, it is ready to install and use without massive configuration steps.

What’s Inside

Feren OS comes with a handy selection of applications that are available by default. The OS also gives you access to thousands of applications available through the Ubuntu Repository.

Some of the Feren OS staples are the Vivaldi Web browser, Files to manage applications and system locations, Remmina for connecting to remote computers, LibreOffice, Calendar, Photos to display your photo collection, Text Editor for writing, Krita for digital painting, Evince document viewer, Weather, Calculator and Maps.

The Themes manager makes personalizing the desktop easy. It lets you alter the appearance of icons, background, window decoration, and just about everything else governing how Feren OS looks on the screen.

This distro provides a handy tool not available in most other Linux distros. The Windows Transfer Tool makes it next to foolproof to move your Microsoft Windows documents and some settings to the Feren OS partition during the installation process.

Feren OS runs the Vivaldi browser by default. The Web Browser Manager tool makes it easy to click and install other Web browsers.

Overall Impressions

Feren OS is very easy to install. This makes it suitable for those migrating to Linux, or at least to this operating system. Feren OS offers a specialized software repository that is colorful and efficient to use. It has several specialized launchers to install and configure software packages with a single mouse click.

The in-house customization of the Cinnamon desktop environment gives Feren OS a considerably different atmosphere than the current Linux Mint Cinnamon iteration. In several ways, the look and feel, along with the easy operation, resembles the Zorin OS. However, Feren OS has what Zorin OS lacks — the Cinnamon desktop.

Feren OS is not a retread of Zorin, which runs the GNOME desktop (or an alternative edition that runs the Xfce desktop) or Linux Mint. Both Feren and Zorin are designed to look like classic Windows.

They both resemble many other Linux distributions belonging to the Debian Linux family. Feren OS displays a handful of system icons on the desktop if you want them. It shows a fully functional taskbar or panel on the bottom of the screen.

Two strong points with Feren OS are the Cinnamon desktop-powered panel at the bottom of the screen and the Software Manager plugged into the Ubuntu repository.

Cinnamon Flavoring

If you are not familiar with the Cinnamon desktop, you do not have to worry about much of a learning curve. The Cinnamon desktop is easy to use, especially with all of the customized features the Feren OS developer team added.

The left side of the panel is home to the main menu button and several launch icons for the Web browser, the file manager and the Software Center. The right end of the panel houses the notifications tray and systems tools launchers.

You can add a broad assortment of applets to that taskbar. You can choose from a library of desklets on the desktop to display various readouts such as weather and system monitors.

Do embedded clock gadgets on the desktop bug you? Feren OS lets you easily enable or disable the clock widget on the screen. You do this simply by calling up the Conky Toggler tool from the main menu and clicking the enable/disable button. Simple and done.

Special Factors

The main menu in Feren OS is a change from the typical cascading display used in Windows and many Linux distros. It is a two-column display with the categories in the left column once you click on the All Applications label at the bottom of the menu panel. Otherwise, you see a left column with a few default applications and a right column showing places.

I like that I can hover the mouse pointer over a menu item to get a brief description of what that application does. This makes getting acclimated to the OS very easy.

Feren OS runs the Vivaldi browser by default. The Web Browser Manager tool makes it easy to click and install other Web browsers. The main menu in Feren OS is a change from the typical cascading display used in Windows and many Linux distros.

Feren OS runs the Vivaldi browser by default. The Web Browser Manager tool makes it easy to click and install other Web browsers. This tool originally appeared in Zorin OS.

The browser options available in this tool are Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera and Brave. You also can select a more generic Web browser called “Web.” Either way, this tool makes it a one-click process to add/remove Web browsers.

I have not seen this Web browser in other Linux distros. It is an open source simple, clean screen style powered WebKitGTK+.

Game players will be disappointed. No default games are included. In fact, the menu does not have a game category. That doesn’t mean you can’t run games on this distro. You just have to download games you want from the software center.

System Requirements

To run Feren OS smoothly, you need 1-2 GB of RAM. However, for the top-notch performance this distro can deliver, you need at least 4 GB of system memory.

You need at least 20 GB of disk space, too. To keep up with optimum performance needs, having 50 or more gigabytes is recommended.

If your hardware falls short of these minimum requirements or comes close to not measuring up with decent performance, try the lightweight version. This is a younger variant of Feren OS that is designed to run on PCs with lower specifications. It is a stripped-down desktop version.

Bottom Line

Feren OS is a popular replacement for Linux Mint. It is speedy and has enough developer differences to make using it interesting and fun. From a practical viewpoint, Feren OS does a nice job of improving on the core Linux Mint Cinnamon experience.

Feren OS is a nearly flawless Linux computing platform. This distro is practically maintenance-free. The developers have taken the best parts of several innovative Linux distros and seamlessly integrated them into an ideal computing platform.

Want to Suggest a Review?

Is there a Linux software application or distro you’d like to suggest for review? Something you love or would like to get to know?

Please
email your ideas to me, and I’ll consider them for a future Linux Picks and Pans column.

And use the Reader Comments feature below to provide your input!

Jack M. Germain has been an ECT News Network reporter since 2003. His main areas of focus are enterprise IT, Linux and open source technologies. He has written numerous reviews of Linux distros and other open source software.
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Slipstream is a racing game that looks like it was ripped out of the 90’s and it’s very cool. To make it sweeter, the latest and possibly last update expands it quite a lot.

This update adds in local multiplayer, a customisable “Cannonball” game mode, a “Battle Royale” mode which is essentially eliminating the last racer on each track, a time trial mode, new physics and better controls, soundtrack customisation and more.

Quite a surprisingly big update, one which many other developers likely would have shovelled into some form of DLC so it’s really pleasing to see it so well supported by ansdor. The Linux version runs beautifully and it’s quite a challenging and fun arcade racer that’s well worth a look. Drifting past multiple racers at high speed feels exhilarating, they did a really fantastic job at making it exciting to play.

As a reminder, Slipstream was developed on Linux which I always think is pretty sweet. Talking about the update, the developer said this will be the last major update for it outside of minor fixes. After working on it for three years, they’re moving on. Can’t argue with that, working on the same thing for so long can get pretty stale.

Find it on Steam and itch.io, it’s unclear if the itch version is up to date.

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The ls command is used to list directory contents and the results can be sorted upon several criteria such as by date, alphabetical order of filenames, modification time, access time, version and file size.

In this article, I will show you how to sort files by date using ls command in Linux.

Hope you interested in reading: How to Sort all Files by Size Using ls command in Linux

1) List Files directory with Last Modified Date/Time

To list files and shows the last modified files at top, we will use -lt options with ls command.

$ ls -lt /run
output
total 24
-rw-rw-r–. 1 root utmp 2304 Sep 8 14:58 utmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4 Sep 8 12:41 dhclient-eth0.pid
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 100 Sep 8 03:31 lock
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 60 Sep 7 23:11 user
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 160 Aug 26 14:59 udev
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 60 Aug 21 13:18 tuned

2) List Files with Last Modified Date/Time (most recent at bottom)

We will use -ltr options with ls command to list files of a specific directory with recently modified files at the bottom.

$ ls -ltr /run
$ ls -ltr /run
total 13404
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 2016 scripts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4688 Dec 14 2016 perms.py
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 9718 Jun 23 14:47 ddagent-install.log
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1457471 Jun 26 01:26 rocket.zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 10:40 ssl-21APR2018-11JUN2020
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 27 09:29 incubator-pagespeed-ngx-latest-stable
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jun 27 09:29 nginx-1.15.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 2 19:55 rocket-nginx
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 18186 Jul 11 13:17 memcachy.zip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12202195 Sep 4 12:21 Linux_64bit.install
:~#

If you want to sort by directory, then by dates use

$ ls -Rltr

3) Display in Human Readable format

We will use -halt options with ls command to list files of a specific directory in human readable file sizes, long format. It uses K, M, G, and T suffixes (or no suffix for bytes)

$ ls -halt /run
total 28K
-rw-rw-r–. 1 root utmp 1.9K Oct 28 06:02 utmp
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 60 Oct 28 06:02 user
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 100 Oct 28 03:48 lock
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4 Oct 28 02:50 dhclient-eth0.pid
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 160 Oct 25 12:16 udev
drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root 600 Oct 25 12:15 .

4) Find files modified in Last 10 minutes

We can get files modified in last 10 minutes with command below:

$ find . -mmin -10 -type f -exec ls -l {} +
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 53 Nov 1 01:58 ./smart.txt
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 15 Nov 1 02:00 ./test/file1

5) Recently modified 10 files

Let see how to check recently modified 10 files in a directory using ls commands. We will use a combination of ‘ls” and ‘head’ command.

Below command will show modified 10 files with the recently updated file at the top

$ ls -lt /run/ | head -10
-rw-rw-r–. 1 root utmp 1920 Oct 31 01:57 utmp
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 60 Oct 31 01:57 user
drwxr-xr-x. 16 root root 400 Oct 30 23:06 systemd
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4 Oct 30 18:42 dhclient-eth0.pid
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 100 Oct 30 03:06 lock
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 160 Oct 28 06:09 udev
-rw——-. 1 root root 3 Oct 25 12:15 syslogd.pid
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 60 Oct 25 12:15 tuned
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4 Oct 25 12:15 sshd.pid

Or

with tail combination, it shows recently updated file at the bottom.

$ ls -ltr /run/ | tail -10
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 100 Oct 25 12:15 NetworkManager
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4 Oct 25 12:15 sshd.pid
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 60 Oct 25 12:15 tuned
-rw——-. 1 root root 3 Oct 25 12:15 syslogd.pid
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 160 Oct 28 06:09 udev
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 100 Oct 30 03:06 lock
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4 Oct 30 18:42 dhclient-eth0.pid
drwxr-xr-x. 16 root root 400 Oct 30 23:06 systemd
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 60 Oct 31 01:57 user
-rw-rw-r–. 1 root utmp 1920 Oct 31 01:57 utmp

Thanks for reading this article and please comment below if you find any other options useful.

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Installing Bitnami Composr Stack

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