Linux Journal Contents #167, March 2008

Features

• Desktop Must-Haves  by Dan Sawyer
  Here's the guide to what you must have to slide easily into the Linux desktop experience.
  
• Behind the Low-End Linux Box that Sold Out at Wal-Mart  by Doc Searls
  Doc Searls interviews Dave Liu of gOS.
  
• KDE 4 Preview  by Jes Hall
  A peek at the revolutionary new version of KDE.
  
• Orca—Take the Killer Whale for a Ride  by Willie Walker
  The Orca screen reader helps people with visual impairments access the desktop. It also can serve as a useful tool for developers to check their applications for accessibility.
  
• Make Your Application Accessible with Accerciser  by Eitan Isaacson
  Find and solve access issues; your users will thank you.
  

Indepth

• Multitrack Video Editor Roundup  by Dan Sawyer
  Video editing in Linux continues to improve.
  
• Maximize Desktop Speed  by Federico Kereki
  Linux is known for its speed, even on older hardware, but you will appreciate it even more after making these performance-enhancing tweaks.
  

Columns

• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   OpenSocial and Google Gadgets  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   My Desktop Lies over the Ocean  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Understanding Shell Script Shorthand  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Security Features in Ubuntu  
  
• Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Automate Your Desktop with wmctrl  
  
• Doc Searls' EOF   Driving Markets from Our Own Kernels  
  

Reviews

• ASUS Eee PC  by Jes Hall
  
• IBM's Unfinished Symphony  by Bruce Byfield
  
• Domo Arigato Mr Androidato–An Introduction to the New Google Mobile Linux Framework, Android  by Adam M. Dutko
  

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