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Brightside extends GNOME window manager

Author: Bruce Byfield Brightside is a small utility for extending the functionality of Metacity, the default window manager for the GNOME desktop. Now at version...

SimplyMEPIS 7.0 is a keeper

Author: Susan Linton The long awaited SimplyMEPIS 7.0 was finally released just before Christmas, and it was worth the wait. In this mature and sometimes...

ISO Master wrangles disc images

Author: Bruce Byfield DVD burners such as as K3b and GnomeBaker use standard commands for manipulating .ISO images, such as mkisofs. However, they give users...

Setting up Subversion and Trac as virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server

Author: JT Smith This howto outlines the process by which one can set up the Subversion version control system, and have it work in tandem...

Find the items you want with GNOME Do

Author: Nathan Willis The wealth of applications on a modern Linux system is phenomenal, but sifting through screen after screen of menu items is no...

CLI Magic: Viewing system information

Author: Bruce Byfield GNU/Linux is bursting with information about the system on which it runs. The system's hardware and memory, its Internet link and current...

Choosing an ink-level monitor

Author: Bruce Byfield Thanks to the OpenPrinting Database and the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), printer support on GNU/Linux is much easier than it was...

Mozilla introduces new Weave online service

"Mozilla Labs launched a new online service called Weave yesterday. The idea behind Weave is that all your personal information such as bookmarks, passwords...

Busybox settles a second GPL suit

Programmers behind Busybox, a collection of utilities governed by the General Public License (GPL), have settled a second lawsuit that argued a company violated...

Mobile phone management under Linux

Author: Razvan T. Coloja Even people who don't live and die by their mobile phones sometimes need to send SMS messages. Did you know you...