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Mining DistroWatch.com Logs (Part 1)
Author: JT Smith
Mining the logs from the famous DistroWatch.com website enables to formally assess the trends in the GNU/Linux ecosystem. In particular, this first...
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Linux-style
Author: Lisa Hoover
Today is St. Patrick's Day, a national holiday in Ireland that's celebrated by people of Irish lineage worldwide. Like Ireland itself, the...
Meet Robot El-E
The robot, El-E, is primarily constructed from off-the-shelf components. Its mobile base is an ERRATIC platform from Videre Design, which includes an on-board computer...
Building a highly functional desktop with lightweight software
Author: Razvan T. Coloja
When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever...
And the best desktop operating system is…
For my money, the best desktop operating system is Linux -- MEPIS and OpenSUSE at the top with Ubuntu closing in fast, to be...
Monitor Web page changes with Specto
Author: Shashank Sharma
There's no dearth of Web feed readers for Linux that allow you to keep tabs on new postings on a Web site....
Encrypt volumes through a cross-platform GUI with TrueCrypt 5.0
Author: Luigi Paiella
Last month the TrueCrypt Foundation released TrueCrypt 5.0, which finally introduces a Linux GUI for the cross-platform encryption application. TrueCrypt 5.0's numerous...
Puppeee: Puppy for your Eee PC
By Dmitri PopovPuppy Linux (and, by extension, Puppeee) was written from scratch with two goals in mind: speed and ease of use. Puppy Linux...
Measuring Fedora’s Boot Performance
Last month we had measured Ubuntu's boot performance via the open-source Bootchart utility and had done this on all Ubuntu releases between Ubuntu 6.06...
Update: Novell’s SuSE Linux Desktop Strategy
At first glance, Novell’s desktop Linux goals are humble. Novell insiders tell The VAR Guy they’d be pleased if SuSE Linux eventually captures 1...