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Linux Journal Live - eBook Readers and DRM
November 14th, 2008 by Shawn Powers in
The November 13, 2008 edition of Linux Journal Live! Shawn Powers and special guest, Linux Journal Author Daniel Bartholomew, talk e-book readers and Daniel's Kindle, DRM, and other goodness.
Run Your Windows Partition Without Rebooting
November 13th, 2008 by Elliot Isaacson in
Dual booting is a necessary evil and very inconvenient. What if you could run your windows partition in a virtual machine, so you wouldn't have to worry about rebooting anymore? With VMWare Workstation, you can.
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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
My first GNU/Linux experience
On May 26th, 2008 Fri13 (not verified) says:
I was grown up by Commodore 8036 (PET) and it's sister model. I got my hands to Atari ST 520 and then to 286 > 486 and then suddenly a P3 500Mhz when it came to market.
I runned Windows 98 then and buyed local PC-game store a GNU/Linux, distribution was SUSE 6.1 and I fighted few weeks with it because my modem didn't work because it was winmodem, later I got info about it and I forget GNU/Linux. Then when Windows 2000 came out, I found Mandrake 8.1 and I dual booted for it, first it started by small times like 1-2 times a week and few houhrs a day. I was playing around. Then when I installed Windows ME to friend's PC, I was tired for Windows (to Microsoft) and I started to use GNU/Linux as main #1 OS. I used Mandrake and then for a year, I changed to SUSE (it was then S.U.S.E) and then back to Mandrake when it changed it's name to Mandriva. I have tested all Ubuntu versions but I have never liked that distribution, so I have stayd on Mandriva.
Biggest steps what was needed to take were to understand what is OS and what is desktop enviroment etc, Actually I have learned everything from GNU/Linux what normal computer user can learn. Windows is still in use, but only for testing and for help desk purpose.
I have liked GNU/Linux so much because I can do all my stuff on it. Even my professional is photorapher, I manage do my job and hobby with it, very easily, even easier than I could do it on Windows XP. Now Vista is on other computer and I can just enjoy GNU/Linux and see what would happend if I would be staying slave under Microsoft command.
I have recomenned and converted now about 20-30 persons from Windows to GNU/Linux (mostly Mandriva, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu distributions are in use) and all are happy for it.