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The Commodore 64 is 30 This Year

By David Lane 

I used to have a paperweight sitting on my desk that read something like “Robert H. Lane, appointed President of Commodore Computers....” It was the sort of thing that they gave to executives. A brass plaque of their appointment as it appeared in the Wall Street Journal or the Globe and Mail. more>>

Munich Linux Migration Project LiMux Reports Success

By Michael Reed 

LiMux, a project to convert local government institutions to Linux and open source software in Munich, has exceeded initial expectations. The project has done slightly better than projections of 8,500 and now boasts 9,000 Linux migrated workstations. The progress and evolution of this project that began in 2003 is well worth examination. more>>

Top Stories of 2011

By LJ Staff 

As the year comes to a close, it is time for year-end reflections. In our case that means sharing the most popular articles of 2011. The following were viewed the most, and in some case created a lot of discussion as well.

1. Readers' Choice Awards 2011 more>>

Goodbye GNOME 2, Hello GNOME 2?

By Shawn Powers 

Many Linux users who have been GNOME fans for years find themselves in a sudden quandary. GNOME 3.0 has completely abandoned the desktop experience we've come to love during the years. That's not to say change is bad, it's just that many folks (even Linus Torvalds) don't really want to change. more>>

Arduino-Open Hardware and IDE Combo

By John Knight 

This article is a bit different from my usual column in two ways. First, it's starting with a hardware and software combo—something I've not done before. Second, the projects are linked to each other and come recommended to me by Perth LUG member, Simon Newton. more>>

tcpdump fu

By Henry Van Styn 

Packet capture is one of the most fundamental and powerful ways to do network analysis. You can learn virtually anything about what is going on within a network by intercepting and examining the raw data that crosses it. Modern network analysis tools are able to capture, interpret and describe this network traffic in a human-friendly manner. more>>

Linux Systems Capacity Planning

By L J Staff 

This video is from our good friends at USENIX's recent LISA conference in Boston.

"Linux Systems Capacity Planning: Beyond RRD and top", by Rodrigo Campos more>>

The Geek's Guide to the Coolest Holiday Gifts

By LJ Staff 

The season of gift-giving is well underway, and since we're sure most of you are not finished shopping, we thought we'd give you some of our ideas for the perfect holiday gifts. Enjoy!

Gift (thumbnail) photo via Shutterstock.

Free Poker DB-Advanced On-line Poker Database

By John Knight 

According to its Freshmeat entry:

Fpdb is a free/open-source tracker/HUD for use with on-line poker. The intent is to make fpdb capable of supporting all games on all sites. more>>

Talking Point: Should Distros Stick to CDR Size?

By Michael Reed 

It's starting to look like the end of an era for Ubuntu users as Canonical mull the creation of an ISO that won't fit onto a CDR. The question is, does it matter? more>>

Lowjack Your Body with RunKeeper

By Shawn Powers 

This past summer, I went to a beach resort in Mexico with my wife. It made sense to get into a little better shape so as not to cause any beached-whale rumors while I soaked in the rays. Typical geek that I am, I wanted to track my every move so I could see how much exercise I really was doing. And, I wanted to do that with technology. more>>

Get More from Your e-Reader: Instapaper

By Shawn Powers 

If you use a dedicated e-reader to read Linux Journal every month, chances are you want to read other material on it as well. Thanks to a free service called Instapaper, if you have an e-reader like the Linux-powered Kindle, you can take your favorite Web articles with you on the go, even if your destination doesn't have Internet access! more>>

Readers' Choice Awards 2011

By Shawn Powers 

The votes are in, the tallies are counted, the hanging chads have been evaluated, and we have our winners. This year holds a few surprises, a couple dominant players and as much open source as you can handle. We don't encourage gambling here at Linux Journal, but if you had an office pool going for pizza money, it's officially too late to make your wager.

CrunchBang 10 “Statler” refresh R20111125

By Michael Reed 

Although officially a version 10 refresh and still under the “Statler” moniker, the latest Crunchbang release constitutes some notable changes. more>>

Cyber Monday: $10 Off Coupon for BRAND NEW Archive DVD

By LJ Staff 

Pre-order the 2011 Linux Journal Archive DVD.

Normally $34.50, our Cyber Monday price is just $24.50. (Use discount code DVDNEW at checkout.) more>>

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The Lustre Distributed Filesystem

By Petros Koutoupis 

There comes a time in a network or storage administrator's career when a large collection of storage volumes needs to be pooled together and distributed within a clustered or multiple client network, while maintaining high performance with little to no bottlenecks when accessing the same files. That is where Lustre comes into the picture. The Lustre more>>

sinfo-Advanced Network Monitoring

By John Knight 

Are you looking to set up some kind of network cluster, but dealing with many different computers, all of which are nearly impossible to keep track of? What if you're in charge of a room full of computers and also of those who are using them (some of whom may be looking to slack off or run something I'll politely dub "objectionable")? more>>

Elmer for PDEs

By Joey Bernard 

Elmer is an open-source multiphysics simulation software that has been around since 1995. It is developed by the CSC — IT Center for Science Ltd. This group is administered by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in Finland. With Elmer, you can model physical systems, such as fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, heat transfer and acoustics. more>>

How do you manage your files? Do you:

By Shawn Powers 
Organize your files into folders, and find them based on your filing structure Lump all your files together and rely on search to find a specific file Organize your files into folders, but find them using a search
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Non-Linux FOSS: Juice

By Shawn Powers 

Many Windows or Macintosh users are perfectly happy to download their podcasts with iTunes or something similar. Here at Linux Journal, however, we like to offer open-source alternatives. Enter Juice. Juice is a cross-platform, open-source application for downloading podcasts. more>>

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