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Friday Fun: Minecraft

By Shawn Powers | Jul 08, 2011

This week's game is one that isn't free. In any sense. It is closed source, and requires payment to even try it out. Why would we mention such a game here at Linux Journal? 2 reasons:

1) It works quite well in Linux more>>

YAAAUU (Yet Another Article About Ubuntu Unity)

By Doug.Roberts | Jun 28, 2011

 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>>

Your Friendly, Price-Gouging Cell Phone Data Provider

By Doug.Roberts | Jun 16, 2011

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>>

Ubuntu Bug Reporting (Again)

By Doug.Roberts | Jun 08, 2011

 So I noticed a few days ago that videos on more>>

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Ebook Publishing Using Linux Tools

By Doug.Roberts | May 10, 2011

Digital books, aka “ebooks” are going to change the publishing world just as iTunes and digital music have changed the music industry more>>

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Converting Office Documents

By Johan Thelin | Apr 21, 2011

Now and then, office-type documents need to be converted. The latex users have always been able to produce a variety of formats from the command line, but for the OpenOffice/LibreOffice users, manual labor has been the solution. That changes with unoconv. Now you can convert to most file formats directly from the command line. more>>

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Booting Bare Hardware

By Johan Thelin | Apr 05, 2011

Booting a computer is always more complex than one wants to think. On the PC side, it looks as if BIOS finally is retired and replaced by EFI (I wonder which was the last OS to use BIOS for anything that just loading a secondary bootloader). On Mac, EFI has been around for a while. On embedded Linux systems, however, u-boot has been a big player for a long time. more>>

Trying a Cute Approach to Android

By Johan Thelin | Mar 29, 2011

Amidst all the chaos surrounding the Qt project, the power of open source software has shown itself. The Romanian developer Bogdan Vatra has ported Qt to Android. To avoid trademark conflicts, the result was named Necessitas. more>>

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Are Your Licenses Compliant?

By David Lane | Mar 23, 2011

If you work with Open Source software every day, you probably do not think for a moment about license compliance. In fact, if you are not an IT manager or professional intellectual property lawyer, you might not even think about it at all. Until you get the phone call. more>>

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Quickie Conference Report: Day One - SCALE 9x

By Bill Childers | Feb 26, 2011

Yesterday marked the opening of the Southern California Linux Expo, otherwise known as SCALE. SCALE's venue this year is the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, just a stone's throw from LAX Airport. SCALE opened strong with lots of technical content, much of it about the "DevOps" movement and how you can bring its benefits to your place of business. more>>

Applying xargs

By Johan Thelin | Feb 23, 2011

There are some commands that turn out to be more useful than first meets the eye. In my opinion, xargs is one of those commands. It takes the standard input and uses it to build a command line. It's nothing fancy, but it's very handy in some situations. more>>

A mini-itx PC in a Sun box

CUPS and Sun

By Johan Thelin | Feb 08, 2011

I recently spent some time getting one of my long term projects built. For quite some time I've had an old desktop computer serve as my printer server. As this machine is kind of loud, I've turned it off when not using it. This led to some client machines not appreciating the printer becoming available at the wrong time. more>>

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