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Exploring Etoys on the OLPC XO
Author: Joe Barr
Etoys is one of the most interesting activities included on the OLPC XO laptops distributed during the Give One Get One program...
From GNOME to KDE and back again: old computing habits are hard to break
Author: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
COMMENTARY -- I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed the GNOME version of...
TorrentFlux: A BitTorrent client on a server
Author: Kurt Edelbrock
TorrentFlux is a BitTorrent client that runs on top of a server running Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It extends the functionality of...
Care and Feeding of Baby Linux Users
This brand-new Linux user, this refugee from the Redmond wastelands, was stretching her wings and trying to fly. She edited xorg.conf all by herself,...
Gnash Flash player reaches milestone, not destination
Author: Bruce Byfield
Gnash, the free software Flash player, has released its first beta. The new release is a milestone for both the project and...
What’s This “Linux†Thing and Why Should I Try It?
Lately, Linux has been receiving quite a bit of notice. Between the ASUS EeePC, the One Laptop Per Child project, Dell’s new Ubuntu line,...
Lesser-known Gnome Panel Applets can improve your desktop
Author: Peter Enseleit
The Gnome Desktop Environment comes with a set of default panel applets included. A little searching in your distribution´s repositories and on...
Acquia ties success to growth of Drupal
Author: Bruce Byfield
In the last year, a growing number of companies based on free and open source software (FOSS) have come out of stealth...
Watch and explore outer space with Stellarium, Celestia, and Xplanet
Author: David A. Harding
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth spent about $20 million to go into space, and he never got farther away from Earth than...
GNOME 2.22 focuses on utilities and standard applications
Author: Bruce Byfield
As you might expect, GNOME 2.22, the latest version of the popular desktop, which was released last week, has some functional tweaks...