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Linux Gaming: OpenClonk

By Michael Reed 

Until recently, I had presumed that a Clonk was the sound that my hard drive made just before I realized that I hadn't backed it up properly. However, in this case, a Clonk is a tiny chap who can jump, climb and fire weapons in the service of reaching his goal. OpenClonk runs on Linux and is the latest in a series of side-view platform games that started life as a DOS shareware series. more>>

Minecraft. Not free.

Friday Fun: Minecraft

By Shawn Powers 

This week's game is one that isn't free. In any sense. It is closed source, and requires payment to even try it out. Why would we mention such a game here at Linux Journal? 2 reasons:

1) It works quite well in Linux more>>

Archiving CDs to ISO from the Command Line

By Jayson Broughton 

A few weeks ago I was working on a PC when I needed to grab the motherboard driver CD.  In a perfect world, the CD would be located in a nice protective sleeve, safely kept away from the nasty elements that encompass the IT tech area (read: coffee, scratches, and the occasional jelly doughnut).  But in this case, it appeared someone had taken this CD and wiped it a more>>

Safer Access without Passwords

By Johan Thelin 

How do you make sure that your passwords are safe? You can make them longer, complicate them by adding odd characters, making sure to use different passwords for each user account that you have. Or, you can simply skip them all together. more>>

Webian Shell: Prototype Web-Based Shell

By Michael Reed 

Webian Shell is a web-based shell that is designed to run full-screen and function as the primary user interface for your computer. At the moment, it's still at the proof of concept stage, but 0.1 is runnable without making any modifications to your system. As it features some interesting ideas, it's worth having a play around with. more>>

Linux Journal Insider - August 2011

By Shawn Powers 

Shawn and Kyle discuss our Community issue this month with their little community of two. While certainly one is the loneliest number, two isn't much better, so join them in this month's Linux Journal Insider!

Peppermint OS: Cloud Oriented Desktop Distro

By Michael Reed 

Released in July, Peppermint Two is based on Lubuntu 11.04, an Ubuntu-derived distribution using the LXDE desktop environment (see our overview). Its main distinguishing feature is that it mixes traditional applications with cloud applications that are closely integrated into the desktop. more>>

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Speed up your downloads with Axel

By Jayson Broughton 

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception ofbad news, which obeys its own set of laws" ~ Douglas Adams more>>

YAAAUU (Yet Another Article About Ubuntu Unity)

By Doug.Roberts 

 I tried.  I really did.  I tried to like Ubuntu’s new Unity interface and tried hard to make it work. Unity felt ok on the Acer Netbook -- the small screen is a good match for the new vertical application launcher. more>>

A network connector

Accessing Remote Files Easily and Securely

By Johan Thelin 

The secure shell, ssh, and its companion, scp, are tools that I use more or less on a daily basis. Being able to move files between machines without having to setup SAMBA or NFS is very handy when working with multiple systems. All that you need is to enable the secure shell daemon - sshd. more>>

Bitcoin

Bitcoin - I Hardly Knew Ya

By Susan Linton 

I first heard of Bitcoin when the Free Software Foundation announced they would start accepting it for donations. Before long another story about Bitcoin appeared in my news feeds. Then another. And another. more>>

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Quick and Dirty SSH Tunneling

By Shawn Powers 

Shawn shows us how to set up a quick SSH tunnel for accessing a computer behind a remote firewall. He demonstrates this from his hotel room 400 miles away from his home network!

Drop Your Dropbox and SparkleShare Instead!

By Shawn Powers 

We love Dropbox here at Linux Journal. It's cross-platform, offers a decent free offering and generally "just works". It has some problems though. Dropbox is proprietary. Dropbox stores a copy of your data in its own data repositories. Dropbox is limited in size, especially with its free accounts. more>>

How Fast Can You Type? Develop a Tiny Utility in Bash to Find Out

By Emre Sevinc 

If you spend most of your time typing on your keyboard (and I hope you don’t use that mouse very frequently, if you care for your wrists, that is), getting up to speed and practicing to become a better and faster typist is well worth the time and effort. And measuring something is the first step to improve it. more>>

Xen Enters Mainline Kernel

By Michael Reed 

Future versions of the Linux Kernel (such as 3.0) will include support for the Xen hypervisor. This means that Linux distributions will typically offer out of the box support for both hosting Xen and running as a guest operating system under Xen. more>>

What is your favorite Linux distribution for use on the desktop?

By LJ Staff 
Ubuntu 36% (5114 votes) Mint 11% (1617 votes) openSUSE 9% (1247 votes) Debian 10% (1440 votes) Puppy 1% (88 votes) CentOS 2% (263 votes) Fedora 12% (1753 votes) Arch 8% (1089 votes) PCLinuxOS 4% (508 votes) other (please tell us which one in the comments below) 8% (1095 votes) Total votes: 14214

Your Friendly, Price-Gouging Cell Phone Data Provider

By Doug.Roberts 

This is sort of relevant, because it involves an incident that I recently experienced with an application on my Android phone.  Android runs the Linux kernel, so this is peripherally a Linux issue. more>>

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Tweaking text in Scribus

By Bruce Byfield 

In word processors, users generally settle for an appearance that is good enough. By contrast, in a design application like Scribus, you have the tools to adjust the layout until it is exactly the way you want. more>>

Mageia

Spotlight on Linux: Mageia 1

By Susan Linton 

Mageia represents the magic one can find if they harness the power of community with a good codebase and selfless coordinators and developers. Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux, a worthy distribution in its own right. Most forks happen because of differences in opinion of the way the code or project is headed. Perhaps someone thinks a particular focus or feature should be followed or added. more>>

A view of Maynooth.

Linux Audio Conference 2011: A Report From Maynooth

By Dave Phillips 

On May 7 and 8 I attended the Linux Audio Conference for 2011 held in Maynooth, Ireland. Due to a temporary mental malfeasance - for some reason I assumed the Earth rotated in the opposite direction - I booked my flight for the wrong departure date and was unable to change its itinerary without paying out a hefty sum to the airline. more>>

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