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Making SUSE Linux 10.1 the perfect desktop OS — by Jem Matzan (May 31, 2006) — When you're done downloading and installing SUSE Linux 10.1 OSS, your desktop system is not complete. You might still need support for Java programs, MP3 audio files, and browser plug-ins for Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Video. You may also want to add support for ...

Setting up a Moodle education server — by Mark Rais (May 31, 2006) — This introductory article provides step-by-step instructions for installing Moodle, a Learning Management System, on a Fedora Linux server. The article provides everything necessary to setup a full-powered intranet web-server that can support course listings, event calendars, student/teacher communication, and more. Best of all, a prototype server can be functional within ...

Get ready for the Vista/SUSE smackdown! — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (May 30, 2006) —

In one corner, we have the champ -- Windows. Come January, it will come out swinging with what Microsoft tells us is the latest and greatest version ever -- Vista.

In the other corner, we have the challenger -- OpenSUSE 10.1, ...

Singing the OpenSUSE package manager blues — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (May 23, 2006) — My current favorite desktop Linux is OpenSUSE 10.1. I can say all kinds of good things about it, except when it comes to the package manager. Unfortunately, the package manager, which the administration tool YaST uses for adding new programs and updating old ones, currently has serious problems....

Banshee -- the next best thing to Linux iTunes — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (May 19, 2006) — I want an audio player that will do everything that Apple's iTunes does -- including working with my iPod -- and do it natively on Linux. That's a tall order. I've tried many fine Linux programs -- KDE's amaroK, RealPlayer 10 for Linux, Xine, etc. ...

Keeping Thunderbird from breaking — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (May 16, 2006) — My love/hate relationship with Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundation's email client, continues. On the one hand, Thunderbird's a very good open-source email/Usenet/RSS client. It's easy to filter, search, and sort messages with Thunderbird -- even with multiple mail accounts. And, unlike Evolution, my favorite email program, ...

Giving desktop Linux a try — by Doug Roberts (May 8, 2006) — Foreword: In this interesting guest column, Doug Roberts, a desktop Linux user for about two years, shares his perspective on switching from Windows to Linux, and what to think about when you decide to take the plunge. After an initial, unsuccessful attempt to install Xandros, Roberts tried a Knoppix live ...

Freespire: Great idea? Awful idea? — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (May 2, 2006) — It's a simple idea. Take the Linspire Debian-based Linux distribution and bundle it with every proprietary driver and program that's available for Linux. Ta-da, an instant Linux that's compatible with far more hardware and applications....

Making sense out of SUSE's delta releases — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (May 1, 2006) — With a cold on one side and a complete Internet connection meltdown on the other, I've been having a heck of a time keeping up with my email. Still, before my ISP, Bell South, hosed my DSL connection and my cold medicine knocked me out, I got a message asking: ...

Student research report: Desktop Linux in Government — by David B. Rankin (Apr. 25, 2006) — Foreword: This research report by a third-year graduate student examines the growing use of desktop Linux among governments in the U.S. and globally. Drawing on published research and comments from industry analysts, the author hypothesizes that desktop Linux may be nearing a tipping point within government settings, ...

Curmudgeon deems SUSE 10.1 "really cool and solid" — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Apr. 19, 2006) — This is one really, really cool and solid distribution. OK, before I go any further I should point out that SUSE 10.1 (code name: Agama Lizard) isn't actually released yet. I've been kicking the tires of the first SUSE 10.1 "Release Candidate."...

A Linux desktop fairy tale — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 21, 2006) — Once upon a time, long long ago, everyone who was anyone in the Kingdom of Linux used SlackWare. Then, along came Red Hat, which many people in the kingdom thought was neater and had a great package manager....

Top 10 reasons Linux pwns your OS — by Scott M. Morris (Mar. 16, 2006) — You've probably heard the talk and seen the articles from Linux enthusiasts on how virtually any Linux distro can run rings around Windows. To help clarify things, Scott M. Morris, the editor of Novell's CoolSolutions website, has complied all the key reasons in one handy, bookmarkable article....

Repeat after me: No more Linux desktop forks — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 15, 2005) — In front of me, I have an interview from The Modding Den with Emre Sokulla, the leader of the SimpleKDE project.

Sokulla said SimpleKDE's goal "is to create a KDE based (which can be the best base in my opinion), enterprise level, simple, easy to use, ...

The other big Linux office suites — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (March 13, 2006) — If you're new to Linux, you may be excused for thinking that there are only two note-worthy Linux office suites: OpenOffice.org and its commercial brother, StarOffice. Nothing could be further from the truth. By my count, there are three other significant Linux office suites....

Old OEMs, new Linux tricks? — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 13, 2006) — I've been thinking a lot, lately, about PC manufacturers and desktop Linux. I've long believed that for desktop Linux to really get going, it needs big-time vendor support, with OEMs like Dell, HP, and Gateway putting Linux PCs on the shelves of Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA. ...

Can Novell lift the Linux Desktop to the next level? — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 9, 2006) — For a while now, Novell has produced some great Linux desktops, like the OpenSUSE line. At the same time, though, Novell insisted that for businesses, its only desktop interest was in thin-client-style worker-bee desktops, like its Novell Linux Desktop. ...

OpenOffice is ten years behind MS Office? That's just fine! — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 6, 2006) — In an interview with Australian online technology newspaper IT Wire, Alan Yates, general manager of business strategy for Microsoft's information worker group, said that OpenOffice.org is about where MS-Office was 10 years ago. That is to say, Microsoft seems to think OpenOffice.org is only good for single-desktop users....

Opinion: Why Windows Vista will suck — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 1, 2006) — Oh! My aching head.

When I first saw ExtremeTech's Why Windows Vista Won't Suck, I thought: "Aha, sarcasm."

Nope. I was wrong....

Why Photoshop tops most-wanted Linux app list — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Feb. 3, 2006) — Photoshop? The application most people want, at this date, to be ported to Linux from Windows is Photoshop? Color me surprised! ...

WordPerfect for Linux lives on — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 30, 2006) — Corel Corp. may have given up on bringing WordPerfect to Linux, but that doesn't mean Linux users have to give up on running WordPerfect on Linux....

Why we need Windows apps ported on Linux — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 27, 2006) — Novell has had one of those amazingly simple ideas that make you ask: "Why didn't I think of that?" The Linux vendor is using its Cool Solutions community-relations website to conduct an online public survey to determine which Windows-only applications people want to run on their Linux systems....

Getting scanners to work with Linux — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 26, 2006) — I recently received a note from a disgruntled Linux user. He was having an awful time trying to get his unidentified USB Canon scanner to work with his copy of Xandros Desktop 3. He's not the only one stuck in that position....

Choosing a desktop Linux distro — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 24, 2006) — Probably everyone who reads DesktopLinux.com -- and certainly yours truly -- encounters the same question over and over again: "What's the best Linux desktop distribution?" Now, while some people will swear up and down that Slackware or Fedora or even Puppy, for that matter, ...

How one reviewer approaches the art of reviewing — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 6, 2006) — I've been receiving a fair amount of e-mail from people who are sure that I don't know Linux, but their notes are really showing me that they don't know reviewing. I don't hold that against them. Few people know how reviews really work....

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