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Linux Journal Live - eBook Readers and DRM
November 14th, 2008 by Shawn Powers in
The November 13, 2008 edition of Linux Journal Live! Shawn Powers and special guest, Linux Journal Author Daniel Bartholomew, talk e-book readers and Daniel's Kindle, DRM, and other goodness.
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Dual booting is a necessary evil and very inconvenient. What if you could run your windows partition in a virtual machine, so you wouldn't have to worry about rebooting anymore? With VMWare Workstation, you can.
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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
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On June 23rd, 2008 mikesd says:
I did an Internet install. First time I got it to work on any distro. I'm impressed with how fast Yast is now. And ncurses Yast has neat function keys added (The Fx keys). The install was quick and effortless. I did the complete install in 2 hours. I installed KDE4, but it doesn't completely like my video card. Sometimes in Yast, it reported a crash, but never really crashed. None the less, I do like KDE4, but reccomend 3.5 right now for deployment. They tell you right in the install thet 3.5 is more mature. You do have to be careful during the install, it asks if you want the password for the main user to be the same as root (I said no). Yast is less of a resource hog now. One thing I noticed is ssh's PermitRootLogin is defaulted to yes. There is now a yast for QT and yast for GTK. They default to respective windows manager, but you can invoke either with --qt or --gtk command @ command line. The install feel is much nicer. X server now beeps if you hit Ctrl+Alt+BS once (twice in rapid sucession to quit) but this can be stopped. Read the release notes. All in all, I'm happy with it.