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Xtreme Illustrations

September 1st, 2008 by Dan Sawyer in


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Cool as Ice!

August 1st, 2008 by Marcel Gagné in

No one will argue that there are different levels of cool. But nothing, and I mean nothing, says cool like a penguin. And some snow. And some ice. Oh, and the Antarctic. That's as cool as it gets.
A look at promising software in development.
A whirlwind tour through the powerful and diverse world of Firefox extensions.
A look at promising software in development.
It has been said that playing is a child's work, because play is the means by which young children learn. You have to wonder if that's where the expression “mixing work and play” came from.
So many VoIP programs, so little time. What's a podcaster to do?
Finally, a scalable groupware solution that matches the offerings from big vendors.

Puppy Linux

April 1st, 2008 by Louis J. Iacona in

Exploring everyone's pet Linux.
Video editing in Linux can be hell, but a handful of programs are showing the way forward to a better world.

KDE 4 Preview

March 1st, 2008 by Jes Hall in

Introducing KDE 4—the desktop revolution is coming.

Desktop Must-Haves

March 1st, 2008 by Dan Sawyer in

This article is an introductory piece to get you thinking about the Linux Desktop and all it can do.
What is this a11y thing (accessibility: 11 letters between the a and the y), and how might people access a complex graphical desktop they can't see?
Putting Navicore and Maemo Mapper through the paces.
AlphaMail takes a unique approach to providing a Web-based IMAP client.
The coolest Linux and open-source applications may be ones you already have.
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From the Magazine

November 2008, #175

There aren't many numbers that put the US national debt to shame, but here's one: 1,100,000,000,000,000. What's that? That's how many floating-point operations per second the Roadrunner supercomputer at Las Alamos can perform. That's about 100 FLOPS per dollar of US debt (unfortunately, the debt is winning the second derivative race). Read the article about Roadrunner in this month's High Performance Computing issue of LJ.

Along with that, find out how to program the Cell processor and how to use CUDA with your NVIDIA GPU. Also in this issue: Mr HandS (aka Kyle Rankin) gives us a few tips on using Compiz, Chef Marcel shows you how to get blogging off your plate quicker, Mick Bauer talks about Samba security, Dan Sawyer interviews Cory Doctrow and Doc talks about how information technology can affect democracy and fix the national debt (just kidding about that last part). That and more for your reading pleasure in this month's Linux Journal.

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