This week Kelly Penguin Girl and I are going to investigate how to get help once we’ve completely screwed ourselves over by not reading the documentation first.
What? That’s never happened to you, you say? Wow…happens to me all the time :)
We’ll check out the window manager help systems (Gnome and KDE), Linux’s classic ‘man’ command, […]

Wow, Prentice Hall must be serious. The only contacted me yesterday about these books and the possibility of having the authors on the show, and BLAMMO! the books arrived today!
They’re actually a few days earlier than I wanted them - I have a chapter or two of my current book to finish. Sigh…I guess I’ll […]

As promised, here’s my first kick at the cat of organizing all the great show ideas you’ve all given me over the past little while. Most of the suggestions made it, but a few were chopped off.
The reasons why an idea didn’t make the list are usually things like:

topic too advanced for beginner users
topic already […]

I suppose I should make some kind of mention about SCOs attempt to prove that Linux was stolen from them by IBM. The case has been going on for a while, and to be honest I’m not really following it all that closely because I don’t think SCO has a chance in hell of proving […]

I’m flattered to have been approached by Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall publishers to review two of their upcoming books.
The books are called Moving to Linux, Second Edition: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!, 2nd Edition by Marcel Gagné (http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321356403) and Peter van der Linden’s Guide to Linux® by Peter van der Linden (http://www.phptr.com/title/0131872842).
As soon as […]

Here’s an article I ran across on, of all places, PC World.
It’s a brief, but somewhat interesting article on how to ‘test drive’ Linux from a Windows environment.
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,121426,00.asp

The Linux User Show #007 (MP3 - 19MB - 53min 20sec)
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This week Kelly Penguin Girl and I investigate CD burning with K3B. We burn a data CD, a music CD, and an ISO.
On another note, listenership is waaay up and the show forums are starting to gain steam as well. Thanks to everyone […]

IBM has officially announced that their operating system, OS/2, will cease production and support for it will cease at the end of 2006.

Stuart Cohen, the director of the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL – also the company that currently employs Linus Torvalds) has been quoted on Zdnet as speculating that MS might start porting some of their applications to Linux.
I’m a little sceptical. One of the major reasons that Linux is having a hard time in the […]

I’ve been playing around with the newest Kanotix Live CD (version 2005-03). Given the problems I have with my wlan card, I generally don’t get much use out of live cds because I can’t do kernel module inserts on a CD in order to get my card working.
Kanotix caught my eye because it professed to […]