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By Shawn Powers 
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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>>

New Books

By James Gray 
Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 20th Ed. (Que)

Besides our fealty to Linux, there may be nothing else besides tinkering with our PCs that defines our Linux geek identity. Therefore, we know that books like Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs, now in its 20th edition, will appeal to many of our readers. more>>

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PdfMasher--E-Book Conversion

By John Knight 

If you've had problems reading PDF files on various devices (like mobile phones), PdfMasher may be just what you're looking for. According to the Web site: more>>

Packet Sniffing Basics

By Adrian Hannah 

Imagine this: you're sitting in your local coffee shop sucking down your morning caffeine fix before heading into the office. You catch up on your work e-mail, you check Facebook and you upload that financial report to your company's FTP server. Overall, it's been a constructive morning. By the time you get to work, there's a whirlwind of chaos throughout the office. more>>

The Near-Death of Blog Search

By Doc Searls 

The first blog search engine was PubSub in 2002. It was inventive and strange in some ways (and took some getting used to); but it was fast and did a good job of searching through syndicated postings, mostly from blogs — at least until blog spam became an epidemic that nearly killed the whole category a couple years later. more>>

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Book Excerpt: A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

By Mark Sobell 
The init Daemon

The init daemon is the system and service manager for Linux. It is the first true process Linux starts when it boots and as such, has a PID of 1 and is the ancestor of all processes. The init daemon has been around since the early days of UNIX, and many people have worked to improve it. more>>

Mr. Beer Archer's Orchard 2-Gallon Hard Cider Home Brew Kit

Free As In Beer

By LJ Staff 

Enter to win prizes from Linux Journal each day during the month of November. Today's prize is the Mr. Beer Archer's Orchard 2-Gallon Hard Cider Home Brew Kit. more>>

Stop Installing Outdated Ubuntu!

By Shawn Powers 

Have you ever installed Linux, only to be greeted immediately with the system update notification applet? more>>

man make: a Primer on the Make Utility

By Adrian Hannah 

In a compiled language, the makefile is arguably the most important part of any programming project. To compile your project, you first have to compile each source file into an object file, which in turn needs to be linked with system libraries into the final executable file. Each command can have a considerable number of arguments added in. more>>

Non-Linux FOSS: Telephone

By Shawn Powers 

Whether you're trying to use Google Voice and a free SIP service to get a free telephone system or trying to connect to your company's internal phone system, if you're on a Mac, you need a SIP client. A few free options exist, but none are as simple as Alexei Kuznetsov's Telephone. more>>

Linux Heavyweights Develop Secure Boot Strategy

By Michael Reed 

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint statement regarding Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar statement. more>>

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Four Hidden Tools in Scribus

By Bruce Byfield 

Scribus is a powerful tool, but its menus are poorly laid-out. While you can usually find the features you most frequently use without any trouble, others may be hidden almost anywhere. From the Extras, Script, and Windows menus to the Document Setup dialog, useful features can be positioned almost anywhere, with only the most token regard for logic. more>>

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Linux Journal Daily Giveaway

By Linux Journal Staff 

What does a Popcorn Hour, Star Theater Pro Planetarium, and a TED Home Electricity Monitor have in common? All prizes you can win this month in Linux Journal's annual Daily Giveaway contest. more>>

Xubuntu 11.10 and my Netbook

By Michael Reed 

October saw the release of the latest version of the Ubuntu family and that includes Xubuntu, the Xfce edition. I’ve just installed Xubuntu 11.10 on my netbook and the experience was rather good. more>>

Google Plus

By Shawn Powers 

The early years of the 21st century forever will be known as the age of social media. I don't know if that's something we should be proud of, but nonetheless, here we are. During the past decade, we've seen things like Friendster, Pownce, Twitter, Wave, Facebook, Tumblr, Buzz, Gowalla, Brightkite, Foursquare, Loopt, Plurk, Identi.ca, LinkedIn, Yammer and now Google Plus. more>>

Luakit Extensible Micro Browser

By John Knight 

Fellow control freaks, if you enjoy having dominion over just about every aspect of a program, I think you'll like this. Inspired by projects such as uzbl, and developed by fellow Perth-boy Mason Larobina, luakit is the Web browser for those who like the element of control. According to the Web site: more>>

jEdit: a Text Editor and More

By Adrian Klaver 

jEdit is a cross-platform text editor written in Java. more>>

Big-Box Science

By Joey Bernard 

A few months ago, I wrote a piece about how you can use MPI to run a parallel program over a number of machines that are networked together. But more and more often, your plain-old desktop has more than one CPU. How best can you take advantage of the amount of power at your fingertips? more>>

Kickstarter for Open-Source Projects?

By Shawn Powers 

The Web site http://www.kickstarter.com is an interesting place. Basically, it's a site that allows people to invest in various projects, giving people real money to develop an idea. Those ideas vary from film-making to programming video games, but the concept is the same regardless of the project. more>>

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