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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.
Why I switched
On June 17th, 2008 John Crout (not verified) says:
The documentation is free, the source code is free, know-how to write code for Linux is easily acquired and most questions -- an overwhelming majority -- are freely answered one way or another.
If I were to make the jump to Linux (after supporting MS products fpr 20 years) I knew there was no better place than Fort Collins because of the many -ix programmers in the area. Since I'd never lost the foothold I found in VMS and Unix, as an undergrad, I switched but had help doing so. Since 2002 or so, I've built, repaired, and managing Linux networks, mixed networks and I've provided email support since 2004. (FWIW, my business savvy seems to be less than what Shawn admits to!)
I wouldn't feel good about writing this without thanking the Big Three (my mentors) to whom I owe much. They are John B., Hugh M., and Brian G.).
Today, we also have mature publications like Linux Journal and publishers like O'Reilly, and even more programmers. If you want to learn Linux doing so is even easier, today.
(My homepage isn't built yet, but the address provided is where I hope it will stay, once built.)