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I was recently looking around to see the state of Linux-capable games, and I was surprised to stumble upon a bunch of really cool looking ones:

• The Battle for Wesnoth
• FlightGear
• Chromium B.S.U.
• Alien Arena
• SuperTux
• SuperTux Kart
• Tux Racer
• TREMULOUS
• Cube 2: Sauerbraten

Let me know if you have any particularly fun Linux games in the comments!

Sometimes I get a weird error message when using apt-get or dpkg on certain Ubuntu or Debian systems. More particularly, this happened on a server I was running and confused me quite a bit. Basically, when working with packages, I kept getting the following message:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.

After some research online, I found the quickest was to fix this was to run (as root):

apt-get install language-pack-en-base

I was also told to execute the following, but I found it to be unnecessary:

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales

I hope this helps someone else, too. Remember to change en_US to your desired locale.

Conky is a really cool Linux program that displays vital system stats right on your desktop. You can configure it to show other cool things by calling external programs. I’ve seen people add media player stats, the weather outside, and even a stock ticker. Conky is available at http://conky.sourceforge.net, and you can also see some more examples and more documentation there. My configuration is fairly simple, and I’ve attached it to this post to let you all see.
My .conkyrc file