It occurs to me that some of my listeners may be on dial-up and therefore downloading a many-hundred-meg Live CD to try out a Linux distro may not be feasible.
If you’re one of these people, drop me an email to thelinuxusershow at gmail dot com; tell me what distro you’d like, and give me a […]

The Linux User Show #002 (MP3 - 21MB - 44min 08sec)
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This show focuses on window managers. Along with Kelly Penguin Girl’s assessment of KDE and Gnome, we have Nick Petreley of TUX Magazine on with us.

List of window managers at XWinMan
Interview with Nick Petreley, Editor in Chief of TUX Magazine
Wikipedia entries on:

X Windows
Gnome
KDE

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Apparently David Brickner agrees with me. He’s written a book entitled Test Driving Linux. The book is a whopping 384 pages long and apparently (althouth I won’t swear to this) comes with a Linux live CD (don’t know what distro).

June 18th. Stay tuned for location and time.
9am to 6pm, room 108 DeVry (2700, 3rd Ave SE Calgary). Here’s a link to the poster.
If anyone would like me to post their local Linux User Group’s events, let me know.

This week’s show is going to surround a mystical concept for new Linux users: window managers.
Unlike Windows or Mac (I think Mac, someone kick me if I’m wrong), the system that supplies the ability to have a nice shiny desktop is actually separate from the application that provides the nice shiny desktop. If you’re familiar […]

I spent some of this weekend playing with gDesklets. I had a few problems with the installation because my Fedora Core 3 ships with pyorbit 2.0 and gDekslets requires pyorbit 2.0.1. I had no luck getting my package manager (yum) to upgrade my pyorbit, so I had to do it manually.

The Linux User Show #001 (MP3 -27MB - 59min 15sec)
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Welcome to the first edition of the new Linux User Show on The Podcast Network. To kick things off this show includes an interview with Mark Rais from the beginner’s Linux site Really Linux, an introduction to Kelly Penguin Girl who will rate the […]

Paul Godin of Monitor Magazine has compiled a list of his favourite Linux applications. The list includes graphics programs, office suites, Linux software sites, mail clients, web editors…the list goes on and on.
You can check the list out here.

The newest mini/live Linux distro to hit the streets in Puppy Linux.
Barry Kauler, a retired university lecturer from Australia, created Puppy Linux pretty much from scratch. This little puppy is only about 60MB including GUI and is made to boot right off a CDROM drive.
There are a couple of customized releases of Puppy as […]

For those of you who are up and running with Linux, Tom Adelstein has written a three part (so far) article on optimizing your Linux desktop performance.