Srinivasan runs the Free Software Blog which is where you can catch the ODOC series, or you can link right to the Technorati ODOC tag, here.

Check it out!

Me too!

Cosmopod has recently launched offering just such a beast utilizing the KDE desktop operating in kiosk mode. Their servers are getting hammered right now and I can’t get logged in, but I’m sure trying!

The first one to get in has to report back here :)

I’ll be moving the bookmarks over the next few days. Until I’m done I’ll link both archives (lower right side of page). When I’m done, the Furl link will disappear.

Check out de.lirio.us if you’re into this type of online social bookmarking thing. It’s pretty neat!

They seem to be written by users and I’m not sure if they’re vetted for accruacy so you may want to be a little cautious. Overall they seem to be of pretty high quality though.

Take a look, here.

OK, we were never hear before, this is new groud.

My Soopah-Secret project that Pat figured out is live today. Newlinuxuser.com is open for business with HowTos and Explanations for new linux users.

The sad thing is that my final template isn’t ready yet. Therefore the launch is kind of underwhelming. I was hoping for the shiny lights and bells and whistles that the new template would bring. Maybe some dancing girls, cocktails…you know the stuff.

Life must go on, though. So in the meantime take a look around the site (of course this is only exciting if you give a crap about GNU/Linux) and let me know what you think!

tar -xzvf ftl-travel-2.1.tar.gz
cd ftl-travel-2.1
./configure
make
su -c “make install”

Does this piece of text seem familiar, but scary at the same time? If so, you might want to check out Marcel Gagne’s ‘The Extract and Build Five-Step”.

Sometimes there’s no package available for an application we want to use, or the latest package available isn’t the latest version of the application. When that happens, we may have to resort to compiling and installing the application ourselves.

In show #4, I covered off how to find and install applications, but Marcel does a much better job of explaining the extract and build that I did.

Enjoy!

I’ll put the link in the sidebar, but it’s here as well.

Link to article.

Also - don’t forget to check out the show Furl (link here and in the sidebar). I’m always adding new pages and links to it.

The courses you can take are:

• Fundamentals
• System Administration
• Network Administration
• Shell Scripting
• Internals
• Electives

Take a look here.

Thanks Kodo!

I’ve decided to start a show Furl (link on the right side under Beginner Resources) to keep track of sites like this. So far Tony’s is the only one in there, but as the list grows, the Furl will get longer.

Thanks Tony!

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 the tip!

The reasons why an idea didn’t make the list are usually things like:

• topic too advanced for beginner users
• topic already suggested
• topic could be amalgamated into another topic

Things like that. They’re all great ideas though!

I’m not going to post the actual list here because I don’t want to have to maintain multiple copies of it. The list will change as time goes on and more ideas come in or technology changes and makes items defunct.

The list is posted on my wikki and therefore anyone can add comments to the list page. I’ve turned off guest write access to the wikki, so you can’t make changes directly to the page. If you want to do that, then you’ll have to register on the wikki.

The link is here.

And if you haven’t registered for the show forums yet - you’re missing out on a lot of good help and information. The show forums are here.

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

Go to their website here and click the Shipit - Free CDs link.

Go.

Go now.

Link.

Hope that helps!

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 mailing address. I’ll download (or copy if I have it sitting around) a copy of the distro and mail it to you.

For now let’s keep requests to Live CDs only as downloading full distros all day long will get unmanageable very quickly. As well, my offer is for regular old Canada Post mailing. If you want the CD faster, let me know and I’ll calculate shipping for you.

On that note, my Puppy Linux Live CD just finished downloading and I’m off to play with that.

Apparently David Brickner agrees with me. He’s written a book entitled Test Driving Linux. The book is a whopping 368 pages long and comes with a Linux live CD (Move - sounds like a Mandrake variant).

I haven’t read the book nor do I know David, but if you’re not into playing the ISO download n’ burn game, this might be a good way to jump into Linux.

Here’s the link.

You can check the list out here.

• Part one
• Part two
• Part three

There’s lots of comments from readers as well, some good, some bad :)

The guide is broken into logical sections like general information, partitioning the hard drive, installing the OS, basic commands to get around, and configuring hardware which is quite handy. There’s lots of good information there, but I would make a few cautions:

• some of the articles are quite dated and some links are broken. Before you decide to follow the steps outlined in a given article, you will want to ensure all the links in the article work so that you can get all the hardware, software, and information that the article points to.
• the editor of the guide readily admits that the information contained therein has only been tested on Red Hat Linux systems. If you want to install another distro then you may want to look elsewhere for information.

TUX is arguably the first magazine (well, PDF) aimed at beginner Linux users and best of all - it’s free!

TUX is brought to you by SSC Publishing which is the group behind Linux Journal, Linux Gazette, and Doc’s IT Garagage just to namedrop a few names.

I downloaded and skimmed the first two issues (hey! I still have to go to work!) and they are absolutely jammed packed with excellent tutorials, reviews, and information about a variety of Linux applications. As promised, the articles are written with the beginner user in mind.

I’ve sent in a query to see if I can get someone from TUX on the show so hopefully we’ll get to learn more about TUX in the future. For the moment, I highly recommend giving the site a visit by clicking here.