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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>>

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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>>

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>>

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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.)

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