Free lives 0.9.8.2 software for linux

KQ Lives! project is an old school RPG.

Take the part of one of eight mighty heroes as you search for the Staff of Xenarum. Visit over twenty different locations, fight a multitude of evil monsters, wield deadly weapons, and cast powerful spells.

On your quest, you will find out how the Oracle knows everything, who killed the former master of the Embers guild, why no one trusts the old man in the manor, and what exactly is terrorizing the poor Denorians.

It was abandoned by its original author and rescued by the Allegro community. KQ runs on DOS, Windows, Linux, and OS X.

Its a simple idea: implement Conways Game of Life using boolean logic operations (and, or, not, xor); do so by blits, thus running a Life game in every bitplane in parallel.

Currently 2 implementations are available: a proof-of-concept (with a life-covered 3d cube!) one in Python (with Numeric/pygame) and a useful one in C (X-Windows screensaver, potentially accelerated).

Olive is (yet another) GNU/Linux Live distribution. Olive LiveCD distirbution offers quite a good deal of new technologies, hardly witnessed ever before, as well as some of the more common pieces of software. Its size is approx. 110MiB, yet it allows a lot of software to be used.
Olives whole point is to display how easy to use Linux may be, yet without losing any of the features required for heavy-duty work. Its also supposed to show various unusual new technologies, not widely known or accepted.
Please note that Olive was, partially, built as graduation work at SPSST Panska. Once presented, a release built specifically for school will be available upon personal request.
Main features:
Media
Olive features MPlayer for playing of your favourite movies. It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, Matroska files. You can also watch Theora, MPEG4 (DivX/XviD), Real Media, DVD, VideoCD, SVCD movies. MPlayer also supports various filters for better experience. Mencoder is bundled with MPlayer and it allows you to encode movies into virtually any of the formats mentioned above.
Although you can use MPlayer to play your music, theres also an application that was written just for that: Audacious. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (now discontinued), which is in turn fork of the very famous XMMS. It supports various audio formats, including MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WAV files and Windows Media, as well as many sequenced formats including MIDI, and a host of different module formats. In addition, Audacious uses Winamp-like skins (and supports Winamp "classic" skins), to provide a familiar and friendly user interface.
You can of course view photos and pictures using GQview, an intuitive image browser. It can generate thumbnails of your pictures, its capable of reading EXIF metadata, has advanced image search function and much more.
Internet
The Internet is part of everyday life for all of us; was it not for the Internet, you wouldnt be able to read this webpage. Olive features Mozilla Firefox web browser, currently the most common web browser used on Linux. For browsing in console, ELinks is a must-have. There is also Sylpheed e-mail client, small, fast and incredibly useful.
These days, Instant Messaging is a common part of our lives. Therefore, Olive sports GAIM2 (beta2) multi-protocol instant messaging client, which is compatibile with protocols such as ICQ, MSN Messenger,Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber or Gadu-Gadu. There is also a client dedicated solely to Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which is X-Chat. As usually, there are console alternatives, which would be CenterICQ and irssi.
You can use Kismet to look for Wi-Fi hotspots. Basic utilities such as telnet or ssh client and server (Dropbear, used in various embedded systems) are not missing as well.
General work
You can perform some elementary office work in Olive as well. Although its obvious that you wont be doing most of your office work on Olive, its quite reasonable to believe it can come in handy. Therefore, Olive has AbiWord word processor to allow you to read and write documents, in various languages, in various characters, without any problem.
AbiWord can also handle various document formats, which includes Microsoft Word or WordPerfect documents. You can also export your documents into HTML for further processing or publication. You can also read Adobe PDF format using Evince, a Gnome/GTK2 document viewer whose PDF backend is based on the Poppler library, which is based on the well-known XPDF. Utilities that allow you export of PDF documents into eg. HTML are also included.
System control
Considering the differences in approach to configuration in various distributions, it may be often hard to configure several things at yet another distribution, such as the X server or preferences of software alternatives. Therefore, Olive features a trivial control panel, allowing any application to be merged in as a new panel. Although it still misses few more desired panels (most notable for network configuration), it already is quite useful for every day usage.
Eye candy
Good-looking environment always helps users to better orientate on the workplace, as well as consider the time they spend with the system more enjoyable. Transparency can be achieved using XComposite extension and xcompmgr + transset.
Though XGL and AIGLX were considered, the decision was made not to use them for their lack of testing and for the demand for support of as many platforms as possible. Please note that even XComposite may have its own issues with other software, most notably Enlightenment and MPlayer, and for this reason xcompmgr is not run by default.
Lightweight
If you consider the above features way too much for you and strive for something lighter, then you can use the FluxBox window manager. FluxBox was finetuned to look and feel as much as Enlightenment as possible, making the transition simple. There are also lightweight versions of some of the software, as mentioned above, such as irssi, CenterICQ or ELinks.
Enhancements:
- A significant bug was found in v0.1, causing ramdisk for people who have 1GiB of RAM or more broken. Please, upgrade to 0.2.

NOTE: It isnt really a game and bears no resemblance to the popular board game of the same name.

Life plays out on a grid of squares where each cell is born, lives and dies according to the number of neighbors it has. A cells "neighbors" are the eight squares immediately adjacent to it. If a dead cell is surrounded by exactly three living neighbors, it is "born" and is considered "living" at the start of the next turn. If a living cell has two or three living neighbors, it remains "alive" at the start of the next turn. If a living cell has any other number of living neighbors, it "dies" and is considered "dead" at the start of the next turn.

Some implementations extend this idea by giving the cells ages, so they will not die immediately if abandoned or overcrowded. This implementation does not do this -- cells are bits; alive or dead. Living cells are gray, dead cells are white.

In this implementation, clicking a cell at any time will reverse its state (living cells become dead and vice-versa). The action can be started by clicking "Start" and will run until the number of remaining iterations reaches 0. An "iteration" calculates a number of rounds and updates the display to show the results. The most interactive way to run the simulation is to perform one round per iteration (the default) so the screen will update constantly. Because updating the screen is slow, more rounds can be performed between updates by increasing the number of rounds per iteration.

There are several counters shown on the screen to display some performance data if youre interested in how fast your browser runs Javascript.

Note that if your screen does not update after every iteration, try setting the delay to a number greater than 0. The grid size can be increased by editing the top of the source file.

wmlife is a program launcher dockapp.

Wmlife is a dock app running Conways Game of Life (and program launcher). Life is played on a grid of square cells where a cell can be either live or dead. In the rules, you count the number of live neighbours for each cell to determine whether a cell lives or dies;

Birth A dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell.

Survival A live cell with two or three live neighbours stays alive.
Overcrowding / Loneliness In all other cases, a cell dies or remains dead.
Normally Life is implemented on an infinite board but due to size restraints wmlife implements the grid as a torus. In a torus, the grid wraps at the edges from top to bottom and left to right.

Alternatives system is an implementation of a Debian alternatives system; a system that allows several programs with the same or similar functions to be installed on a single system at the same time.
This implementation solves some problems and limitations of original implementation.
Alternatives architecture
General engine:
- alternatives-auto - turn into auto mode some alternatives item
- alternatives-manual - turn into manual mode some alternatives item
- alternatives-update - update current state of alternatives symlinks
Special scripts for the packages:
- alternatives-install - register new alternatives config, for use in %post package script
- alternatives-uninstall - unregister some alternatives config, for use in %preun package script
ALT Linux specific:
- alternatives-helper - helper script to use in package scripts
- alternatives-upgrade - tool to upgrade from old config format (XML based) to new.
Directories:
- /usr/bin - all scripts live here
- /etc/alternatives/packages.d - all package configs
- /etc/alternatives/auto - symlinks to registered configs
- /etc/alternatives/manual - list of alternatives in manual mode
- /etc/alternatives/links - for internal use only, alternatives symlinks lives here
- /usr/share/alternatives - directory with some helper functions and scripts
Original Debian alternatives implementation has some limitations and problems, so we (ALT Linux Team) rewrite this subsystem. What changes we have made?
- You dont need to give special generic name for altenatives file. This name is autogenerated now.
- This version is written in shell, awk and sed , so we reduce a number of dependencies, therefore, number of the packages in basesystem.
- We use different update model. Original alternatives system maintains its own database, by creating/removing files in system. In our alternatives (rpm) packages contains its configs and places them into generic directory during package installation. After package removal its config is automatically removed. It works like Debian menu subsystem, and its more stable.
- Now we have not any limitations for master-slave hieracly depth.
- New alternatives system works with no groups, but with each item. You can turn into manual mode any available item. There are only one difference between master and slave: weight calculation algorithm. Slave alternative have same weight as a master alternative.
- alternatives-update script corrects invalid manual alternatives, by switching them into auto mode. In original alternatives was situations with broken symlinks. Also new system doesnt create symlinks if target file does not exist. As a result, we also reduce number of broken symlinks.