AssaultCube

AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, i is a FREE multiplayer first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that’s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer with fast, arcade gameplay, it’s addictive and fun!

With efficient bandwidth usage, it’s low-latency and can even run over a 56Kbps connection. It’s tiny too, weighing in at a lightweight 40 MB package available for Windows, Mac and Linux. On the correct settings, it can even run on old hardware (Pentium III and above).

website : http://assault.cubers.net

Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a fast-paced 3D deathmatch game with high-end and complex graphics effects. It is intended to be played over the Internet or over a local network. Several different game types, such as classic deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag are available. Though it also supports a single-player mode and playing against the computer. The game brings deathmatch back to the basics, with perfect weapon  balancing and fast paced action, keeping itself away from the current trend of realistic shooters.

Nexuiz is an Arena First Person shooter coming soon to consoles. Nexuiz is fast paced with extremely competitive game play. IllFonic brings Alientrap Software’s Nexuiz to next-gen gaming consoles around the world while staying true to the game play refined over the years through development. IllFonic introduces a new Victorian influenced art style that is simultaneously futuristic and sophisticated. Nexuiz for consoles is powered by CryENGINE 3.

Nexuiz will feature a dynamic mutator system that allows players to change the rules of the match as its being played; as players rank, new mutators become available for them to use. Leader boards are designed for social networking, letting players feel more engaged with the community.

website : http://www.nexuiz.com/

Warsaw

Warsow is a fast paced first person shooter consisting of cel-shaded cartoon-like graphics with dark, flashy and dirty textures. Warsow is based on the E-novel “Chasseur de bots” (“Bots hunter” in English) by Fabrice Demurger. Warsow’s codebase is built upon Qfusion, an advanced modification of the Quake II engine. Set in a futuristic cartoon-like world where rocketlauncher-wielding pigs and lasergun-carrying cyberpunks roam the streets, Warsow is a completely free fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Speed and movement, that’s what Warsow is all about. Like a true cyberathlete you jump, dash, dodge and walljump your way through the game. Grab those power-ups before your enemy does, plant the bomb before anyone sees you, and steal the enemy’s flag before anyone knows what’s going on!

website : http://www.warsow.net/

Sauerbraten

Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features & eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine.

Sauerbraten is a networked fast-paced 3D first-person shooter game. It supports rather modern graphic effects and a some nice graphic details.
The game client also works as the map editor. It is even possible to create and/or edit a map together with other people over a network connection.
Sauerbraten might be considered unsuitable for children.

website : http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net

Tremulous

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based First Person Shooter (FPS) game with elements of a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like a Real Time Strategy game. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more.

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the “Armoury”. The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.
The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

website : http://tremulous.net

This great software inherit many features from CCL with many enhancement, as you knows CCL is one of our best billing and point of sales system we ever use.

Mkahawa is a swahili word for Cafe. Mkahawa builds on the small but fast Cafe Con Leche (CCL) – the light, but ultra-fast C++ Internet Cafe Management Software for Linux and Windows. This is but a continuation of CCL development in just another form.

About Mkahawa

Mkahawa is an open-source project that builds on Cafe Con Leche or CCL – the nifty, cross-platform Internet Cafe billing and Management Software started by Bruno Deferrari. It extends CCL’s traditional cross-platform nature, simplicity, lightness and speed with major additional features.

Mkahawa project also aims to provide up-to-date binary installers for the different Linux distros and Windows versions. This website has add-ons and non-Linux installers. Free source and some binaries can be found at sourceforge.net .

FIFA World Cup Edition is NOT an admission that the Mkahawa Team will be spending a whole month watching the largest, most entertaining and prestigious soccer contest in the World.

Features

• Staff Access Management (Login & Logout)
• Choice of post-paid and prepaid billing
• Stronger membership management
• Tickets printing and management
• Speed-buttons for simple usage
• Installers for Ubuntu, Zencafe(Zenwalk) and Windows
• Automatic charging for print-outs
• Multi-language capability
• Client updates from the server
• Session Management ( Feature Requests)
• Session Start, Stop, Pause
• Timeout Settings Timer
• Client Seat/Session Swapping
• Count Up/Down Timer
• Configurable Blocker Image
• Post-paid / Prepaid modes
• Server Functionality ( Feature Requests)
• View Client status in real time
• View Client status in colored icons
• View Instant Status list
• Session Cost Cashing & Discounts
• Products Sale & Reports
• Versatile Tariff Configuration
• Membership Management
• Multi-level Staff Access Control
• View Session and Sales Logs
• Generate Session and Sales Reports
• Generate and Print Tickets
• Client Computer Control
• Shutdown and Reboot
• Temporary Blank Screen
• Client Update from Server
• Client Upgrade Capability

Mkahawa 0.0.3

This is the latest version released on 13th March, 2010. You can download it from here

• Options for post-paid and prepaid billing
• Options for rounding off price to .00, .05, .10 and .50
• Support for non-alphabet scripts eg Chinese, Indian, Russian, Korean
• Tickets: Printing and general management
• Improved looks – Graphical buttons

It IS a recognition that Mkahawa is used all over the world, and is an expression of our solidarity with FIFA’s core values of authenticity, unity, performance and integrity.

Mkahawa Downloads

These are the latest files for the open-source Mkahawa Internet Cafe management software. Pick older files from here

Requirement

Mkahawa Server and Client supports the following operating system:

• Linux operating system especially Ubuntu Linux
• Windows XP (you need to buy to obtain mkahawa windows client and server via paypal)

Recomended

Although we are still running a test to this software on our DRBL server and client but we are highly recomending Mkahawa for cyber cafe owners who was running CCL before this.

More info about mkahawa:

Website : http://mkahawa.sourceforge.net

Project and Download site : http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mkahawa

CafePilot supports connections over the Internet so Internet cafe businesses with multiple branches can use a centralized server. This will allow customers to roam between branches with generated pre-paid tickets.

Best of all, CafePilot is free and open source! [http://sourceforge.net/projects/cafepilot/]

CafePilot Service Request Monitor (SRM) allows a Cafe manager to see, in real-time, requests for attention by customers and the status of those requests. An attendant can also monitor the SRM to see what refreshments/products customers are ordering. Best of all, there is no limit to the number of SRMs that can run on your network and SRM license comes free with CafePilot.

General Feature List

• Cross-platform (Windows and Linux)
• SQL database, no OLE MS Jet Engine problems
• Comprehensive log page
• Easily export accounts to a comma delimited flat file for easy integration with other systems
• Choice of creating Barcode tickets that allow customer to scan instead of typing login information
• CafePilot closes all specified application (including browser) windows when customer logs out

Billing

• Prepaid billing with customizable tickets e.g. add company name and logo
• Barcode tickets.
• Create and print accounts in bulk.
• Create accounts with custom username and password
• Expiring accounts, based on a calendar date or specific duration after first logon
• Limit ticket validity to particular time periods based on group
• Customizable low time warning
• Per-second billing
• Re-usable tickets
• Create different account types and set diffrent rates for each e.g. “night-time” tickets, “2Hr” tickets etc
• Easily edit accounts. Change credit, expiration and delete accounts

Security

• Definable range of allowed IP addresses on the server so no foreign CafePilot client connects to your server.
• Customizable staff permissions e.g. allow a staff to create accounts while denying him the right to delete or edit them.
• CafePilot Client lets you run your workstations on Guest account so as to prevent customers from tampering with your workstations.

Reports

• Automatically get Internet cafe activity reports by email daily or weekly (as customized). CafePilot will send diffrent reports to different email addresses as specified
• View activity reports for both administrative functions (account creation, editing etc) as well as workstation usage
• View reports on service request and product purchases
• Export reports to a variety of formats including PDF, HTML and XML

Product Server/Service Request Monitor

• Install as many Service request monitors as you want
• Give your customers the convinience of requesting attention or ordering products, refreshments and services right from their workstations
• Get a report of ordered products and services, including whether they were fulfilled or cancelled

License

• Free!

source : http://www.cafepilot.com/

Although I’m a cyber cafe owner but I am not a games freak, but Glest had caught my eyes 3 years ago, when I started osscc.org. Glest is a good 3D real time strategy game, the game is still under good development progress. You can play Glest on LAN or single player also. Although Glest is not as advance as Warcraft III, but I really enjoy playing it some time, even those kids when we did an exhibition last year gave us a positive feedback when they play Glest on our diskless linux gaming system using DRBL.

Installation

Installing Glest on Ubuntu Linux is far too easy, open your terminal and type the following command:

# sudo apt-get install glest

Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions:Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.

Glest is not just a game, but also an engine to make strategy games, based on XML and a set of tools. A few mods already exist.

Mega Glest

Their other project called MegaGlest seems doesn’t  has so many progress since they registered the project at SourceForge.net on Jan 22 2010, and is described by the project team as follows :

“Currently there is no active development of the real time strategy game glest. This project aims to improve the game and its content. It already has a lot more content than the original game and contains bugfixes and improvements.”

And the stable release of MegaGlest is version 3.3.3 and can be downloaded from here : http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5283.0

Glest Development Team

Glest is made by a bunch of friends, most of them from Spain. If you wish to contact them, please send an e-mail or post on their board.

Martiño Figueroa. Glest game, engine and tools coder.
MS in Computer Science by the University of Coruña (Spain). e-mail.

Glest Official Website : http://www.glest.org/

Glest Blog : http://glestblog.blogspot.com/

Glest Forum : http://glest.org/glest_board/

From my experiences running a cyber cafe business and provides certain solution to the others cyber cafe owners, Ubuntu Linux 10.04 or the previous version of it, is the perfect choice to be the server and the client operating system for cyber cafe purpose.

It has everything except POINT OF SALES software, dont believe on me? try to click ubuntu main menu > Ubuntu Software Center > Search for cyber cafe and you’ll get nothing except blank white page. But try search for point of sale and you will get “lemon point of sale” but this software wasn’t meant for cyber cafe purpose, it was created for general such as restaurant or book store.

One thing until now what Open Source Operating System such as Ubuntu or perhaps I should say Canonical still couldn’t beat Microsoft is the supports from game developer, but currently i heard that Steam is coming to Linux, until now we still need to using wine and other emulators to play warcraft III, counter strike and so on.

For me, that is why the progress in running gaming center or cyber cafe business based on open source software was far too slow and just few small company had put their interest to develop a billing system or pos system for linux operating system but still their software lacks many of important features, I didn’t say I am condemns their software, for me it’s a good effort for them and us, but we are still waiting for the perfect point of sales for open source cyber cafe.

Others POS system such as OpenbravoERP, OpenbravoPOS, OpenERP are good software makers but still the softwares wasn’t meant for cyber cafe, internet cafe or gaming center.

Why is this happen? I don’t know, or maybe they think that running cyber cafe and gaming center business using an open source product couldn’t help the progress to expanding the influences. Instead of that, still some of others contributor was willing to spend their time, money and privacy to creating POS system such as ccl, mkahawa, gbilling and others, but still to software need more support on their development. Ubuntu or Canonical should supporting them in their software development(cyber cafe billing system).

So if you asked me what is the perfect POS system for open source cyber cafe should it looks like? If you look to the Cafesuite.net features then we might get some point how it should be. And if we takes their features to suggest what kind of billing system we really need for cyber cafe cafe then it’s could be just like below:

Security

It should provides many levels of security, ensuring that your business is always under control.

Workstation lock

Unused workstations can be securely locked so that no one can use them without proper authorization from the operator.

Operator profiles

You can create many profiles for your employees with different access rights. Not every one should be able to change crucial options or pricing schemes.

Encrypted data files

All databases used by CafeSuite are encrypted which ensures they can’t be tampered with by unouthorized individuals.

Backups

It’s possible to create backups of data files automatically evey given period of time. Your data will be secure even when your system crashes.

Ease of use

The user interface is clean and feels very natural even to begginers. The integrated help system will guide you in case of any problems.

Customer accounts

It’s should makes it really easy to manage large database of customer accounts. You can create different types of accounts for your customers — time accounts, cash accounts, debt accounts and unlimited accounts. You can assign beneficial charging rates to customer accounts to reward devoted customers.

Customers will be able to log on by themselves using their account ID and password. It’s also possible to create smart, magnetic or barcode cards for your customers, so that a simple scan of their card will log them on.

Reservations

It should provides unique graphical workstation reservation system. Simply select a time period on the workstation chart to create the reservation.

In case of a very big traffic, you’ll appreciate the Waiting queue function, allowing you to manage the waiting list.

Reports and statistics

The software provides you with a range of reports and statistics summarizing your business performance. Starting with very general reports, you can even get a list of all operations performed by your employees minute by minute.

Flexible charging rates

Real strength of the software lies in the flexible charging rates system. You can configure many schemes of pricing, including periodical discounts.

You can assign different charging rates to computer groups, beneficial pricing can be used with customer accounts. You can even create traffic discounts that adjust prices depending on the number of free computers in your cafe.

Support for external devices

You can use barcode scanner, magnetic card or smartcard reader to logon users with accounts and sell products. the software also supports receipt printers for printing receipts and account tickets.

Integration with Printer

The software integrates with Printer allowing you to keep control over your printers. Once a customer prints some pages, the software will notify the operator about that and calculate the charge automatically.

For your information, I’ve waiting the Cafesuite for linux, they said to running the software on linux since 2006 but until now there is nothing at all.

For me I would like to add some features to the above, it should supports diskless terminal client, for now I’ve tested CCL to be able to lock down diskless client. I think I should makes an article or tutorial about it.

Post installation

After a successful installation and boot to the newly installed Ubuntu Lucid with out problem, now it’s time for the post-installation. You might consider to create a user if you want, login as root with your previous password:

Step 1. You will need to edit your hosts file

So I want to install Ubuntu Linux for my other system without using a cdrom, but I dont want to do it on that system, instead of that I want to install it via my current working ubuntu desktop that Im using right now.

Actually I want to build a firewall system complate with hotspot gateway and freeradius. But for now lets start with the basic installation first.

You could follow the instruction from ubuntu help community by Curtis Lee Bolin : Installation From Linux or you can continue to read it from here because I made a little modification for the installation method and I add the instruction for the post-installation and how to setup a firewall base system.

How to install without CD

You can install Ubuntu directly from Ubuntu using debootstrap. Debootstrap installs some essential packages in a directory for use with chroot. Note that the essential packages does not in itself make the system bootable. It just installs what you need to chroot to that directory and use apt-get to install other packages witch makes ubuntu usable.

Step 1. First turn off you computer and plugin your hard drive to it, after turn it on back then check that you have debootstrap installed if not, then you should run the following command below:

# sudo apt-get install debootstrap

(NOTE: if you want to install a newer release than your current system, you normally need to install the backported debootstrap version, see: UbuntuBackports)

Step 2. Partition device and make a file-system, to make it more easy, I use cfdisk to create partition for the other drive.

We will assume /dev/sdb is the storage device for your fresh install. I use my thumbdrive to show you an example how to partition the other drive for another system to setup an installation of ubuntu linux from your current ubuntu desktop.

Remove former partitions and create the new on.

# sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb

cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.17.2)

Disk Drive: /dev/sdb
Size: 2056257536 bytes, 2056 MB
Heads: 64   Sectors per Track: 62   Cylinders: 1012

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
sdb1        Boot        Primary   W95 FAT32 (LBA)                   2056.00

[ Bootable ]  [  Delete  ]  [   Help   ]  [ Maximize ]  [  Print   ]
[   Quit   ]  [   Type   ]  [  Units   ]  [  Write   ]

Use your arrow key to the [ Delete ] option to remove your partition on the other drive:

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
Pri/Log   Free Space                        2056.00

[   Help   ]  [   New    ]  [  Print   ]  [   Quit   ]  [  Units   ]
[  Write   ]

Create new partition from free space, then you will see your drive is empty, now select [ New ] to create your new partition and select [ Primary ] :

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
Pri/Log   Free Space                        2056.00

Size (in MB): 1500

You need to enter new size limit for primary partition, press backspace then enter the size yo want, for example I use 1500MB and 500MB++ for the extended and swap partition.

Now create the rest of your free space as an extended and swap, to change type of your newly created partition navigate to [ Type ] press Enter and select 83 for linux and 82 for swap.

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
sdb1        Boot        Primary   Linux                             1499.34
sdb5                    Logical   Linux swap / Solaris               556.67

and select your primary partition as bootable by press the option [ Bootable ]. The write down your partition and quite cfdisk.

Are you sure you want to write the partition table to disk? (yes or no): yes

then [ Quit ] and start to make the file-system

# sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Step 3. Mount that new partition.

# sudo mkdir /mnt
# sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Step 4. Create the new install.

# sudo debootstrap lucid /mnt

Step 5. Copy files to the new install to keep your repositories

# sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /mnt/etc/apt/

Step 6. Chroot to your new install.

# sudo mount –bind /dev /mnt/dev
# sudo mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc
# sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Step 7. Upgrade the new install.

# apt-get update
# apt-get install language-pack-en-base

Note: I install the language-pack-en-base before upgrade to avoid perl warnings as shown below.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = “en_US.utf8″
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

then continue with :

# apt-get upgrade

Step 8. Install Grub and Linux Kernel.

# apt-get install grub-pc linux-image

Step 9. set root password.

To set a root password.

(NOTE: You must at least set a root password if you aren’t adding a user)

# passwd

It should now be safe to reboot, you may want the next few things.

Step 10. If you want to access it with ssh after reboot.

Use vi or install nano to edit /etc/hostname.

Remove anytext in this file and add the hostname you would like.

# vi /etc/hostname

yourhostnameyouwant

and then edit /etc/network/interfaces

# vi /etc/network/interfaces

Add this lines to /etc/network/interfaces. This will start eth0 at boot and request an ip with dhclient.

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Next you need to install ssh

# apt-get install ssh

Turn off your computer, remove the new installation drive and plugin to the other system, and bootup the system. If you want the Ubuntu Gnome desktop, continue with Step 11, but if you want to setup a firewall base system, so just skip the Step 11 and Step 12, so it safe for you turn off your system and boot the drive from other system.

Step 11. Install ubuntu-desktop.

# apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-standard

Step 12. Reboot and keep those fingers crossed.

# sudo halt or sudo reboot

To be continue on Part 2

I’ve read about React OS and follow their progress for almost a year, but still don’t have a time to try it. But until now few weeks ago I manage to spare my time for this operating system, just download their live cd version, about 30MB something like that, and run it using qemu.

First of all, I cant believe it, just 30MB for live CD? It’s so damn small working live cd for gui operating system that was build from scratch to mimic Windows NT/2000/2003 operating system.

But unfortunately the development of React OS too are slow, from my opinion if React OS got some really big funds, this new open source operating system will makes Microsoft suffered enough.

Why? Because it’s run microsoft standard software such as office 2000, peripherals driver for windows 98/ME/NT/2k even XP, although it does has some limited in supporting other software and driver, but for me React OS will be the next big thing and key player for the next generation of Open Source Operating System Class.

And further more, React OS will be benefits cyber cafes and gaming center business in reducing their TOS. That is sound cool heh? If this OS really support 70-80 percent of windows games, no more headache for business owner to figure out running a windows based games in linux using wine.

About React OS

What is React OS actually? ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system based on the Windows NT architecture, providing support for existing applications and drivers, and an alternative to the current dominant consumer and server operating systems.

Where can I find more information about React OS?

You can browse them from here : http://www.reactos.org/en/about.html

React OS Screenshot

Unreal Tournament

React OS Shell

Flash and Firefox

SAVAGE: The Battle for Newerth
Choose to be a commander and you will play an in-depth RTS managing the stronghold, or choose to be a warrior and you will play an intense game of first person combat. With the creation of a new game play genre, RTSS (Real Time Strategy Shooter), Savage expertly redefines the first-person shooter and real-time strategy genres by combining elements of both into one cohesive experience. As the commander in RTS mode, you will tackle resource management, develop a robust tech tree, plan your assault and lead real human players into battle. As a warrior in action mode, you will master many unique weapons, powerful units, and siege vehicles to fight a fast paced battle.

Set in a unique fantasy world eons from now where Humans and Beasts battle violently for their very existence. Savage transports PC gamers to the next level in multi-player gaming. Choose to fight on the side of HUMANITY, armed with science and technology, or take the side of the BEAST HORDE, masters of nature and magic. Each race has its own style of battle, its own leader, and its own way to victory. Which side are you on?

Minimum System Requirements:
Windows® 98, ME, 2000, XP or Linux
Controls: Mouse and Keyboard
CPU: 600 MHz processor
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Drives: 4x CD-ROM and 600 MB Hard Drive space for installation
Video: GeForce or Radeon series graphics cards
Online Connection: 56k modem

Recommended System Requirements:
Controls: 3 button mouse with a scroll wheel
CPU: 1000 MHz CPU or better (subject to change)
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Video: GeForce4 or better (OpenGL compatible Video Adapter)
Online Connection: Broadband (Cable Modem, DSL, or better)