Why waste your money on expensive commercial games when you can play for free, and, if you’re so inclined, dive into the code and modify the game to suit your exacting requirements?

Apcmag.com presents its selection of the most addictive, fun and refined Open Source games for January 2008.

#1 Secret Maryo Chronicles
Taking inspiration from a certain classic sidescroller of yesteryear, Secret Maryo Chronicles (SMC) is a captivating 2 dimensional platformer. Gorgeous graphics and interesting levels make for a refreshing take on Super Mario. Yes, physics feel a little different to Super Mario but one gets used to it fairly quickly. SMC comes with an in-game editor - hit F8 to insert a graphic, a sprite or change player starting position - and a large number of different levels and worlds. SMC is a highly polished game and is a blast to play especially for younger players.

Powerups
There are some very cool powerups available to the player. The classic red mushroom makes Maryo bigger, a fireplant grants fireball shooting ability, blue mushroom lets Maryo shoot iceballs and ghost mushroom makes Maryo hidden to enemies. There are other powerups and secrets for you to discover.

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Many people want to customize their login screens. Where I work we customize the Novell Login screens and put a default Legal Notice for all the users. It would be nice to customize the login and shutdown screens for UBUNTU to display custom graphics. Here are the instructions on how to customize the GNOME login screen to display legal notices before users can.

Instructions How To Customize the Login Screen

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All is not lost when it comes to blogging tools for GNU/Linux; there are quite a few options and all of them fulfill certain blogging needs to near perfection. Here are five different ways to compose your blog posts on the GNU/Linux platform along with their pros and cons.

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