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GnuCash – Keep Your Cash (or lack thereof) in Order

Author: JT Smith GnuCash is a personal finance and accounting application created to keep you crazy organized. It can do simple things like recording expenses...

Building an attractive, usable desktop on a budget laptop

Author: Jake Tolbert Creating a light, attractive desktop environment on a new low-end laptop using Openbox in Ubuntu is simple and offers you most of...

2008: Year of the Linux Desktop

Are we doing enough to attract new users from the IT community? The results are right here, many of the IT pros do not...

In Defense and Praise of Debian

Author: JT Smith Should Debian be more commercial, as Ubuntu is? A look inside one of the GNU/Linux movement’s leading distributions. Link: itmanagement.earthweb.com Category: Linux

Moving my mother over to Linux

Author: Michael Reed To save money, I cobbled together a computer for my mother out of cast-offs left over from my own upgrades. She doesn't...

VLC – The Universial Media Player

VLC (VideoLan) is a cross-platform universial media player. It supports a variety of different inputs, including DVD, VCD, MPEG, AVI, WMV, MP4, and MOV....

Well-appointed Darkstar Linux has a dark side

Author: Mayank Sharma Darkstar Linux 2008.1 is one of the first stable distro releases of the year. This distribution from Romania is based on Slackware...

In latest release, Nmap looks better than ever

Author: Joe Barr December's release of Nmap 4.50 marked the popular port-scanning tool's tenth anniversary. The 4.50 release includes Zenmap, a cross-platform GUI front end...

Video conversion in Linux with RippedWire and WinFF

Author: Nathan Willis In the past we have examined OggConvert and Thoggen, two GUI tools for simple encoding or transcoding video into free Ogg formats....

Novell Revamps openSUSE Community Pitch

In the battle for the heart and minds of the Linux community, community outreach matters. Aggressive outreach has been part of the recipe for...