In case you’ve missed it, which I don’t see *how* on Earth you possibly could, a new Ubuntu fork is coming soon, called Ubuntu Studio. Though I don’t know how they could possibly improve Ubuntu (this coming from an OS X evangelist), Ubuntu Studio will be a special version of Ubuntu Linux aimed at audio, video and graphics enthusiasts and professionals. Though there is little word on what multimedia-specific features Ubuntu Studio will press forward, it has been announced that popular tools such as Audacity and of course, Blender will be included. Ubuntu Studio drops in April, so here’s to waiting breathlessly for yet another reason not to switch to Windows Vista.

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Mega Games, one of Europe’s largest online gaming communities, is keeping a live and exhaustive list of free video games. 52 pages of games, covering years of game design and covering all genres and many platforms (from Linux to to XP to OSX), there are hundreds of interesting (and some not so interesting) games free to play and enjoy.

[Free Games at Mega Games]

The Participatory Culture Foundation has announced the release of the Democracy internet-TV platform’s latest and greatest version (0.8.4.1), addressing many stability issues, adding some new codecs, and cleaning up the interface a little more, among other fixes. But man, what a version number. For those who do not know, Democracy is an internet-television browser, using a built-in RSS reader to display and download video-based content channels using bit-torrent technologies. The ability to grab podcasts, videocasts, video blogs and bit-torrent video feeds are present, and the video player can also be used as a Quicktime replacement, so you can re-watch season 2 of Lost, while downloading the latest episode of Rocketboom in the background. Best of all, it’s free (as in speech, as the slogan goes), open-source and works wonderfully under OSX.

[Get Democracy]

UK software engineer Simon Sheppard has created a thoroughly exhausting list of command line syntax for the Oracle 9i, Windows NT/XP (including Win2K and 2K3), Linux and OSX operating systems. As we constantly hear down here in the Nerds closet (AKA: office), true nerds use the command line.

[Command line reference for Oracle, Windows, Linux and OS X]