How do I advance my career? It is a question that is posed to us on a daily basis. People are always looking to take that next step up the corporate ladder. You may even know the traditional ways: a new project initiative, corporate politicking, networking, etc. Those are all vital in realizing your goals, and they could be discussed ad nauseum.

But working in the Linux world brings its own set of challenges--and key advantages--to career moves. In this special series, Brent Marinaccio of HotLinuxJobs.com lends his unique insights into the Linux and open source career world, and reveals the benefits working with open source can have for your résumé!

The Linux Documentation Project - LDP for short, or tldp (taken from the domain name) - is a very long-standing project whose aim is to document all aspects of the GNU/Linux operating system and associated applications software. The Project is governed by the LDP Manifesto and has a long history.

With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses on scanning books, describes the steps you need to take to prepare pages for optimal OCR results, and compares various free OCR tools to determine which is the best at extracting the text.

Recently in the Linux.com forums, readers asked about desktop effects, automounting NTFS drives, game installation, and hidden directories. We also have unanswered questions of the hardware, software, and legal variety.