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The Third

If you thought the only desktop options were KDE and GNOME, think again. Xfce provides a full-featured desktop that's lightweight enough to run on old hardware. federico kereki In the famous 1949 movie The Third Man, much hinges on a traffic accident and two men and, it seems, a third man also was involved. Investigation leads to all kinds of events, until eventually the truth surfaces, and the key third man is found. But, go watch the movie for the details no spoilers here. In the Linux world,...

Shawn Powers

Most Linux users are intimately familiar with programs that are similar to their commercial counterparts, but not quite the same. There isn't anything wrong with clone applications, but if programs were inherently usable, regardless of the underlying operating system, fewer programmers would have to re-invent the wheel over and over again. Cross-Platform Apps, a Great Concept One real hope for Linux users is the idea of cross-platform applications. It's not a new concept, but we're beginning to...

The Evolution of the Desktop How Far from the Pinnacle

Rumor has it that 2009 is the year of the Linux desktop. With KDE 4.2, the next step in the evolution of the popular desktop environment, it may well be. That is very impressive, Fran ois I wasn't expecting to see a series of murals when I walked in, but there they are. What exactly am I looking at You want me to guess, do you Well, if I had to guess, I would say it looks like a series of tables from the prehistoric to the present, with place settings to match. Thank you, Fran ois. I...

Linux Journal

See the first issue of LJ, published in March 1994, at www.linuxjournal.com issue 1. Shawn Powers was barely out of high school when the first issue of Linux Journal went to press 15 years ago, but we figured it would be fun to send him back in time to write a column for the first issue. Besides, how else could we claim a tax write-off on a time machine Wow, what a dream. I could have sworn I was a 30-something-year-old geek with a family and a mortgage. But, here I am in 1994. Oh well, at...