The Linux User Show #009 (MP3 - 22.4MB - 62min 20sec)
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This week we talk about KMail! Originally the show was supposed to be about a bunch of email programs but that turned out to be toooo much for one show.
We announce the first installement of our Win4Lin contest and Kelly Penguin Girl also […]

Lauri Watts from KDE stopped by the show forums today and made use of the ‘Correct Jon’ forum.
After our help show in which we noticed that the KDE help was kinda clunky, she wanted to point out that there is an excellent online KDE documentation project at http://docs.kde.org/
Thanks for stopping by, Lauri and thanks for […]

A Slashdotter was asking for recommendations today on how to introduce his coworkers to open source in a fun way. In one of the replies to his post, another user provided a link to my review of Puppy Linux.
Way cool…many new visitors because of that, thanks!
Not everyone loves me though. Joshua took the time to […]

I have a bunch of Win4Lin licenses in my hot little hands right now.
We’re going to be giving them away over the next few weeks. Stay tuned starting with Show #9 to see how you can get your own license!

Got some time on your hands? Take a look at the Linux Devices website.
As you may have guessed, this site lists a whole schwack of Linux devices such as PDA’s and cellphones. I’m always initially surprised at how many things Linux is used for, but only initially. When I stop for a second and […]

The Linux User Show #008 (MP3 - 16.6MB - 48min)
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This week we respond to a listener request and talk about the various places to get help when you run into problems. We talk about getting help from your Linux system itself (man and command line help) and the KDE window manager. Then we […]

Yahoo! has also just announced the release of their toolbar for Firefox (Linux version supported).
So, if you’re a Yahooer! then go get it, here.

Official Google Toolbar released!

If you recall waaaay back in the midst of time we did a show on ‘Windows Enablers’ which is what I’ve decided to call those classes of programs that allow users to run Windows programs on Linux.
One of the products we reviewed was called Win4Lin which is one of the ‘virtual machine’ type packages that […]

I’m really impressed with Kanotix. The live cd ran beautifully and once I figured out how to use ndiswrappers, my ago-old problem on not having my wlan card running on a Live CD went away. Part of the reason I’m impressed is that Kanotix is a Debian-based distro (actually, it’s based on Knoppix) and Debian […]