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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>>

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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>>

Watch O'Reilly's Velocity Conference Keynotes Streaming Live

By LJ Staff 

We will live stream the Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference keynotes on Wednesday and Thursday, June 15-16, so those who can't be there in person can enjoy the content online. more>>

Javascript PC emulator runs Linux

By Michael Reed 

Fabrice Bellard, creator of the multiple architecture emulator QEMU and FFmpeg, amongst other open source projects, has unleashed his Javascript powered PC emulator. In its current state, it boots a stripped down, text mode Linux implementation and runs within a modern browser. Interesting curio or a potentially useful tool? more>>

The Lork Pod !

A Report From Beyond: Linux Sound & Music At Virginia Tech

By Dave Phillips 

From April 7 through 9 I attended Beyond, a series of lectures, workshops, and concerts promoted by the DISIS group at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg VA. more>>

LibreOffice

The Open Source Office Software Sector Heats Up

By Susan Linton 

The world of LibreOffice and OpenOffice(.org) has been heating up recently with several exciting and, at times, bewildering developments. The Document Foundation remains very active as is LibreOffice development, but Oracle has given up on OpenOffice and slapped LibreOffice in the face by giving it to Apache. Perhaps the most important announcement was the release of LibreOffice 3.4.0. more>>

Torvalds Christens The Next Linux Kernel Series 3.x

By Michael Reed 

It's official, kernel version 3.0 is on its way. Linus confirmed this both in an announcement and by checking in the first 3.0 release candidate. The new branch is not expected to include any major milestones in terms of features, but it may stimulate developers to adopt policies of cruft removal and modernization. more>>

Linux Journal Insider - July 2011

By Shawn Powers 

This is our Cool Projects issue, so Shawn and Kyle share its coolness with you. They also talk about things that need cooling, like beer and server rooms. (NOTE: It may be dangerous to combine beer and server rooms.)

Pidgin

Skype Out - Pidgin In

By Johan Thelin 

Recently, myself and my colleagues at Pelagicore decided to try to ditch Skype for an open replacement. We have been suffering stability issues with Skype for a long time, but our customers rely on it for contact with us and most people know how it works. more>>

Raspberry Pi: Tiny Computer That Runs Linux

By Michael Reed 

700MHz processor, 256MB of RAM. It doesn't seem that long ago since I was running a desktop PC like that. However, these are the specs of a new keyring-sized computer to be released by a UK not for profit company. They hope to be able to sell it for $25 dollars a pop, and best of all, it runs Linux. more>>

Friday Means FUN!

By Shawn Powers 

Today is Friday, and regardless of what Rebecca Black might say, we don't all gotta get down. Some of us just want to play games. If you're under the impression gaming is reserved for Windows users, you are sadly mistaken. Here's a few I like: more>>

Arcade Fun - M.A.R.S.

Tiny Core Linux 3.6 adds GUI installer

By Michael Reed 

With the release of version 3.6, the Tiny Core crew have added a GUI method for hard disk installation. As I have, on previous occasions, banged on about this omission, I thought I'd take a look. more>>

Fun with ethtool

By Jayson Broughton 

Time to be honest here for a minute. The open source community really has outdone themselves coming up with some very obscure names for packages. Let's take this list of packages for instance: emacs, gimp, gcc, mutt, grub, kyle rankin, parted, tar, mutt, vim. Nine times out of ten, a common person is going to look at that list and become utterly confused over what package does what. more>>

Get Green, with Brown!

By Shawn Powers 

The folks at Recompute have taken the notion of "Going Green" to a whole new level. They've made computer cases out of recyclable cardboard. We had the pleasure of speaking with Recompute's Brenden Macaluso and took one of their computers for a test drive. Here's what we found: more>>

Grabbing Your Music from YouTube: Do It Your Way

By Emre Sevinc 

A few months ago my father-in-law said that his company was renewing their computers. When I heard that some second-hand PCs were about to be available, I decided to take some of them, thinking that a few old PCs would not hurt when it comes to enlarging my home network and doing experiments with GNU/Linux. more>>

Silly Programs

By Shawn Powers 

Those of us who have been using Linux for a long time all know the joy of silly programs like xeyes. One of my favorites, however, is good old xsnow. Whether you love the cold weather or live in Florida and like to ski on occasion, xsnow will add some winter fun to your desktop. The xsnow program has been around forever and is surely available for your distribution. more>>

Open Source Cloud Computing with Hadoop

By Bernardo David 

Have you ever wondered how Google, Facebook and other Internet giants process their massive workloads? Billions of requests are served every day by the biggest players on the Internet, resulting in background processing involving datasets in the petabyte scale. Of course they rely on Linux and cloud computing for obtaining the necessary scalability and performance. more>>

Internet Relay Chat

By Jayson Broughton 

Wow, talk about a dinosaur! IRC seems like it has been around since the dawn of time. Without dating myself, I still remember logging into BBSs back in the eighties and nineties and getting help in chat rooms that would eventually become what IRC is today. more>>

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