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Running Windows apps under Linux

This article offers in-depth tips on using Wine, Win4Lin, and VMware, and touches on Bochs. You can have your cake and eat it, too, with Windows apps running on Linux.

Installing a firewall, Part 3

In this three-part series, you'll learn to install and configure a Linux server and firewall. This third part covers the process of installing the firewall itself, including setting security goals, tweaking the OS, ensuring local security, and more.

Interview: Bob Young, Red Hat CEO

Enterprise customers don't want to know about technology. They'd rather use pen and ink. They use technology because they can do things with it that they can't do with pen and ink. This is very specifically what the Red Hat Network is all about.

De-demonizing forking

If there's one OS that's likely to avoid self-immolation via forking, it's Linux. Everyone of any importance or influence in the Linux development community whatsoever is painfully aware of how close UNIX came to making itself a historical footnote thanks to fragmentation. The Linux crowd just won't make UNIX's mistake.

Toyota to save 3 Million a year using Linux

Toyota perennially produces some of the world's most reliable cars. When the auto giant decided to create a comprehensive network to communicate with its 1,200 American car dealers, it wanted the same reliability in its operating system -- and chose Linux.

Linux has already won

The goal of building a world-class free operating system which "doesn't suck" has clearly been achieved; critics may say that Linux does not satisfy them, but they ignore the fact that it certainly fills a critical role at many universities and businesses around the world.

Linux: You'll never get rid of it!

I use the software that works now, and always will work. It works on new computers. It works on old computers too. And most importantly, it's free. These are three things that will make me always prefer Linux to Windows, no matter how much Windows should improve.

Linux Garage: KDE Utilities

KDE Utilities

Acrobat Reader: Adobe Acrobat Reader ships with Caldera. Use it for

handling PDF files as you would in Windows.

Ark: It is a program for managing and quickly extracting archives. Has

drag and drop features.

Kclipper: Keep track of your cut & Paste history with Kclipper. Sits as an

icon on your taskbar.

KJots: A program for writing and organizing small notes.

GV: Postscript Viewer

KHexedit: This is a small and simple editor for binary files.

Complexity and the open source model

These unplanned and unanticipated delays lead me to pose a single question: has the breadth and complexity of high-profile Linux/Open Source projects outstripped the Open Source software-development process?

Review: KDE2 RC2

With KDE2 RC2 being used on thousands (maybe millions?) of desktop systems right now, and the final KDE2 code being shipped to packagers for release on the 22nd, I decided this would be a nice time to write a review on it.

Poll

What needs to be improved most on Android 3.x for tablets?: