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Steven Goodwin: Biography  Lecturer 
Bibliography by publisher: Charles River Media  Linux Magazine  Develop  Free Software Magazine 
Bibliography by topic: Games Development  Linux  Magic  Other 

Steven Goodwin - The Bibliography

Free Software Magazine

Free Software Magazine

From power to prompt

  The login prompt is a nice place to be. We're poised, fingers on keyboards, ready to send mail, surf the web, or do a little programming. However, from power on to login prompt there is a long road for our Penguin-powered PC to travel. But the journey is an interesting one, with many interesting sites along the way. Each one adds to our understanding of Linux, which in turn helps us upgrade, streamline and fix our system.

GP2x

  Games under GNU/Linux have usually been a lacklustre affair. For every Tux Racer, there are a hundred sub-standard Pac-man clones you’d be embarrassed to advocate. For every commercial version of Quake, there’s a hundred other worthy games the publisher elected not to port to GNU/Linux. Without good games, there’s no market, and without the market, no effort is spared. And so the cycle continues. In this article, I will look at two of the areas in which GNU/Linux games have succeeded, and a new device that combines them both, which could help expose GNU/Linux to the populous.

Pro Apache Ant - Book Review

 This book covers the popular Java-oriented build tool, Ant. It is a combination of reference manual and user guide, which demonstrates how to create Ant scripts that can compile projects, test them, and perform the many other manual tasks involved in the build pipeline, above and beyond standard compilation phase.device that combines them both, which could help expose GNU/Linux to the populous.
Pro Apache Ant Review

ImageMagick - Book Review

 TThis book details the functionality of the ImageMagick package (primarily convert), by covering its command line usage, along with most of the valid options available and example images depicting the before and after effects.
ImageMagick Review