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Take a screenshot of your desktop and post it to the Linux Journal Flickr pool (or e-mail it to us). Our editors will pick the 5 they deem "coolest" on Monday and we'll post them here for all to revel in.
Submitted by
LJ Staff on Fri, 2009-11-20 13:54.
With the holiday season upon us, consider that Linux Journal is a terrific gift to give, as well as receive.
An experiment in Nicaragua shows just how powerful Open Source software can be in leveling the
playing field. The second poorest country of the Americas now has one
of the best software solutions for displaying agricultural data in the
western hemisphere.
Submitted by
Johannes Wilm on Thu, 2009-11-12 08:48.
This chapter excerpt is from Exploratory Software Testing: Tips,
Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design by James Whittaker,
published by Addison-Wesley Professional, Aug. 2009
Submitted by LJ Staff on Wed, 2009-11-11 08:42.
Thank you for your interest, however this survey is now closed. The winners of the 2010 Linux Journal wall calendars have been notified.
If you were not a winner there's still time to pick yours up -- 25% OFF CALENDARS when you buy two or more. Use coupon code 'giftcalendar' when checking out. Expires Nov 30, 2009.
Submitted by LJ Staff on Tue, 2009-11-10 12:29.
For those of you who were with us back in 2002, you may remember a wall calendar we produced in celebration of issue 100 of Linux Journal. It was such a fun calendar that for years to come readers would ask me when we were going to print another. I always joked "ask me in another 100 issues".
Submitted by Carlie Fairchild on Wed, 2009-10-28 16:19.
Over the past few years, any Linux developer you ask would quickly recommend buying computer hardware with an Intel chipset. When it comes to Linux support, especially in the mobile realm, Intel had the best support hands down. In fact, even my first generation Asus EeePC with the tiny 7” screen supported Compiz acceleration out of the box!
Submitted by Shawn Powers on Tue, 2009-10-27 08:00.
The O is for October, harvest time here in NW Ohio USA. A beat-slicer, a book review, and a milestone release compose this trio of reviews for the Fall season in Linux audio fashion.
Submitted by Dave Phillips on Mon, 2009-10-26 09:04.
As a homeschooling family, my wife and I are very involved in our children's education and since we're both a couple of nerds, much of our children's education is done on the computer. Submitted by Mike Diehl on Wed, 2009-10-21 13:32.
Over the past few months I've been drifting into the world of Linux video applications and development. I've already written a review of the LiVES video editor, and I've made occasional reference to the Kino editor. Recently a reader asked if I'd tried a recent version of Kdenlive. I started looking into it and I liked what I saw. The following article is an account of my continuing experience with the latest codebase from the project.
Submitted by Dave Phillips on Thu, 2009-10-15 11:07.
Read an excerpt from the 4th Edition of the book Python
Essential Reference by David Beazley.
Submitted by LJ Staff on Fri, 2009-10-09 11:01.
When I began collecting links for the Linux Sound & Music Applications pages I frequented a variety of announcement and news services. Some of those services are no longer with us, some have been superceded by more comprehensive and modern channels, and a few have remained as primary sources for new and updated Linux audio software. SourceForge is one of those long-lived services that have remained relevant to my searches for new and interesting sound and music applications, so I decided to surf the Forge to find recent and maybe some not-so-recent developments in the world of Linux audio.
Submitted by Dave Phillips on Tue, 2009-09-15 11:05.
In this article I finish the process we started in the last episode. Read on for the thrilling denouement.
The Build
After all the preparation described in the first part of this article the build process itself is rather anticlimactic. Building from sources with the GNU autotools is this easy :
Submitted by Dave Phillips on Wed, 2009-09-09 09:24.
Recently I've received some mail asking for a brief explanation on how to build Linux audio applications from source code packages. Ask and ye shall receive, hence the following simple guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the downright mystified. Compiling software is hardly rocket science, and if an old guitar-picker like myself can do it certainly you can too.
Submitted by Dave Phillips on Tue, 2009-09-01 12:59.
Read an adapted version of chapter 3 from the book
The Official Ubuntu Book
By Benjamin Mako Hill, Matthew Helmke, Corey Burger.
Submitted by LJ Staff on Fri, 2009-08-28 10:41.
The new T-Shirts
are here (even in XXL) and we're still givin em away in exchange for a Tech-Tip.
Send your entries to the web editor
(use the subject line "Tech Tip" and please include your mailing address as
well as your T-Shirt size: Small, Medium, La Submitted by LJ Staff on Tue, 2009-08-25 09:59.
According to its developers Guitarix is a monaural amplifier designed for creating the distorted sounds typical of thrash, heavy metal, blues, and other rock guitar styles. In fact, Guitarix is capable of much more than distortion sounds. In this article I'll remove the software speaker grill and pull out the virtual chassis to take a closer look at the sonic possibilities of this "simple mono amplifier".
Submitted by Dave Phillips on Mon, 2009-08-24 08:56.
LMMS is music creation software similar to programs such as GarageBand for OSX and FL Studio for Windows. Those programs are designed to streamline the process of making music with a computer in order to get new users into music composition as quickly and painlessly as possible. Their feature sets include preset audio loops, MIDI tracks, and other ready-made musical materials available for immediate use in a piece. Their GUIs invite involvement in the process of making music and it's clear that the designers want the user to have fun with the program and the process. In this mini-review we'll see if LMMS lives up to the precedents set by those programs.
Submitted by Dave Phillips on Mon, 2009-08-17 10:00.
I'm sorry Mr. Gates I'm afraid I can't do that.
Shawn "Hot Blogger 2008" Powers models Linux Journal's newest t-shirt. It's funny, it's geeky, it's black, it's even available in XXL -- everything our dear readers asked for. And until Friday August 21 it's 15% off if you use code "odyssey" upon check-out.
Back of the t-shirt reads: 2010 A Linux Odyssey.
Submitted by Carlie Fairchild on Wed, 2009-08-12 16:24.
Just one week shy of Christmas 2008, the Python world saw the release of
version 3 of Python. Big deal, eh? Well ... it turns out it was and is, as
Python 3 is the first major release of Python designed from the get-go to
be incompatible with prior versions of the language. Python is well liked
among the Linux Journal readership (winning the Favorite Scripting Language
category in 2008), and such a development may come as a shock to some. A
detailed description of all of the changes brought into Python 3 can be found in the
what's new document,
another interesting source can be found on the pythonology blog.
Consequently, in this article, I don't
intend to rehash such material. Instead, I present my own take on Python 3,
as well as discuss what Python 3 means for the new and existing Python
programmer.
Submitted by Paul Barry on Wed, 2009-08-05 11:07.
