Reviews

KWord, The Lightweight Word Processing Power Tool
OpenOffice is the darling of the FOSS office suites, and it is a nice suite. It's cross-platform, and OpenOffice Writer is a first-rate word processor with a lot of advanced features. But it's not the only good option for Linux users: Abiword and KWord are excellent lightweight word processors with good feature sets, and both are licensed under the GPL. All three are wonderful. In this two-part series we're going to dig into KWord 1.6, and mine some of its hidden jewels.
Thursday, December 6, 2007 10:50:38 AM EST

Tutorials

Murder Most Fowl
So there you are, dutifully wading through the documentation for whatever gnarly Linux application you're rassling into submission. You're running commands and editing configuration files and things are working and life is good. Until--yes, you knew the good times weren't going to last--until you hit the dreaded "send the process a SIGHUP" instruction.
Friday, June 16, 2006 12:26:06 PM EST

Making Your Terminal into a Desktop
There are several possible reasons why you might choose to use the command line interface (CLI) as your desktop environment. Jem Matzan walks through how to set up your virtual terminal to be more productive for desktop work.
Thursday, March 16, 2006 09:50:40 AM EST

Handling Multiple Displays with x2x
Many screens, one keyboard, one mouse. Ah, what's a Linux technophile to do? Rob Reilly shows you how to use x2x to get multi-screen control for your work area.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 02:30:52 PM EST

WiFi PDA Meets Linux--Part 2
Part 1 of our WiFi PDA/Linux series focused on setting up the iPAQ to browse the Web and connect to a Linux/Samba file server. This time, we'll look at printing from the iPAQ to a CUPS print server.
Thursday, April 21, 2005 01:09:41 PM EST

Inkscape: Vector Graphics For Linux
The GIMP is the favored graphics package for Linux and Open Source software users. But raster-based graphics are not always the way some artists want to go. Inkscape provides a vector-based Linux graphics solution for those who need it.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:39:22 AM EST

Integrating Calc Into Your Business
Depending on the business and industry, spreadsheets can be anything from very simple lists used for sorting to kazillion cell monsters that add, multiply, and figure up gravitational forces throughout the entire universe. Rob Reilly steps through some basic yet very useful features of OpenOffice Calc for those not familiar with this powerful tool.
Thursday, February 5, 2004 09:34:41 AM EST

Integrating Writer into Your Business
As Linux is brought into service in small and medium sized companies, desktop pilots often wonder how they will ever get off the ground without proprietary word processing applications like Word. "Can I still do basic business letters with Linux?" And "Will our old Word docs work with Linux?", they ask. The answer to both questions is a resounding "You betcha" with OpenOffice.org Writer.
Monday, January 5, 2004 10:38:56 AM EST

Installing Sybase on Your Linux Server
Got them ol' licensing fee blues? Looking for a better way to handle your database needs? Sybase for Linux may be one way to solve your problems. Setting it up for a test spin is not a major proposition, either, as Alexander Prohorenko details in this tutorial that covers installation and localization of Sybase.
Thursday, July 18, 2002 03:20:19 PM EST

Tutorial: Adding Additional Hard Drives in Linux
With all of the hub-bub about Linux in clusters, Linux on supercomputers, and the like, sometimes it's nice to reflect on the basics a bit. For instance, what if you just wanted to do something more mundane, like add a hard drive to your Linux PC? Alexander Prohorenko steps users through this task and shows how to make this job a snap.
Monday, June 3, 2002 10:36:33 AM EST

New HOWTO: Plug-and-Play-HOWTO
This updated HOW TO covers the complex Plug-and-Play (PnP) issue, including how to get PnP to work on your PC (if it doesn't already).
Thursday, April 26, 2001 09:00:33 AM EST

New HOWTO: Remote Serial Console HOWTO
Most UNIX-based systems have the concept of a serial console. Linux is no exception to this, and this document by Mark F. Komarinski covers how to set up your hardware to use a serial console.
Friday, April 13, 2001 01:00:12 PM EST

New HOWTO: Modem-HOWTO
This updated HOWTO covers selecting, connecting, configuring, troubleshooting, and understanding modems for a PC running Linux.
Thursday, April 12, 2001 01:00:42 PM EST

New HOWTO: Linux Partition HOWTO
This Linux Mini-HOWTO teaches you how to plan and create partitions on IDE and SCSI hard drives. It discusses partitioning terminology and considers size and location issues. Use of the fdisk partitioning utility for creating and recovering of partition tables is covered.
Thursday, April 5, 2001 11:01:31 AM EST

New HOWTO: The Linux Kernel HOWTO
This is a detailed guide to kernel configuration, compilation, upgrades, and troubleshooting for ix86-based systems.
Monday, April 2, 2001 01:22:33 PM EST

New HOWTO: Linux XDMCP HOWTO
This HOWTO describes how you can use the combination of X Display Manager (xdm, kdm and gdm) and XDMCP (X Display Manager Control Protocol) to provide the mechanism for an X terminal and a platform of cheap remote X apps solution. This document will be focusing on how to setup connection using XDMCP.
Thursday, March 29, 2001 02:34:32 PM EST

New HOWTO: Emacs Beginner's HOWTO
This document introduces Linux users to the Emacs editor. It assumes minimal familiarity with vi or a similar editor.
Monday, March 26, 2001 06:30:32 PM EST

New HOWTO: XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO
This HOWTO, maintained by Hal Burgiss, tells how to improve ugly and unreadable X Window fonts. It includes various tips for improving font handling for XFree86, including sections on fonts servers, TrueType fonts, Netscape, and related topics.
Friday, March 23, 2001 02:07:09 PM EST

New HOWTO: Nvidia OpenGL Configuration mini-HOWTO
In this HOWTO, Robert B. Easter details how to install the OpenGL drivers for Nvidia graphics cards on Linux. In addition to just installing the Nvidia drivers, this mini-HOWTO also explains how to install XFree86, the OpenGL Utility library (part of Mesa), the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (glut), the full set of OpenGL manpages, Qt and its OpenGL extension, and Java and its Java 3D extension so that a user can have a complete runtime and development environment for OpenGL applications on Linux.
Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:58:54 PM EST

New HOWTO: Bridging Mini-HOWTO
From the author's description of this mini-HOWTO: "This document describes how to setup an ethernet bridge. What is an ethernet bridge? An ethernet bridge is a device that controls data packets within a subnet in an attempt to cut down the amount of traffic. A bridge is usually placed between two separate groups of computers that talk within themselves, but not so much with the computers in the other group. A good example of this is to consider a cluster of Macintoshes and a cluster of unix machines. Both of these groups of machines tend to be quite chatty amongst themselves, and the traffic they produce on the network causes collisions for the other machines who are trying to speak to one another. A bridge would be placed between these groups of computers. The job of the bridge is then to examine the destination of the data packets one at a time and decide whether or not to pass the packets to the other side of the ethernet segment. The result is a faster, quieter network with fewer collisions."
Tuesday, March 13, 2001 04:54:02 PM EST