. PNG??”Portable Network Graphics. The open source replacement for GIFs.
. SVG??”Scalable Vector Graphics. The Next Big Thing, this XML web graphics standard
is being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
. TIF??”Tagged Image File. Often used for printing and publishing.
Sometimes you may not be able to work with a file in its current format. Coming to your
rescue are a host of separate image-converter applications that can change an image??™s
format almost instantly. The best known of these, ImageMagick, even does its thing from
the command line!
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Gaming on Linux
As the original ???hobby??? operating system, some Linux users have all their fun just tweaking
the OS and their applications. Others need more traditional entertainments.
openSUSE is fully equipped with assorted options for the gamer in you.
Very few shrink-wrapped commercial PC games are produced for Linux. For the most part,
games are developed these days for Windows PCs using the Direct3D graphics engine. The
cross-platform OpenGL engine is used for many popular games (like Doom III), but there??™s
a perception that OpenGL is not as muscular.
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