- "Linux World News"
issue 115, June 2010
(with Celso D. Timana)
- "Linux World News"
issue 114, May 2010
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 113, April 2010
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 112, March 2010
(with Christina Haralanova, and Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 111, February 2010
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 110, January 2010
(with Celso David A. Timana)
- "Linux World News"
issue 109, December 2009
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 108, November 2009
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "World News"
issue 107, October 2009
- "World News"
issue 106, September 2009
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "World News"
issue 105, August 2009
(with Yuwei Lin, and Brenno de Winter)
- "Odin's reporter - Creating a custom Munin plugin"
Munin collects information and plots parameters of your choice automatically and
with minimal configuration. But if you can't find a plugin that captures
the data you want to graph, you might have to roll your own.
issue 104, July 2009
- "Linux World News"
issue 104, July 2009
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 103, June 2009
(with Yuwei Lin, and Christina Haralanova)
- "Linux World News"
issue 102, May 2009
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 101, April 2009
(with Yuwei Lin, and Enrico Zini)
- "Linux World News"
issue 100, March 2009
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 99, February 2009
(with Yuwei Lin, and Christina Haralanova)
- "Linux World News"
issue 98, January 2009
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 97, December 2008
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 96, November 2008
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 95, October 2008
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 94, September 2008
(with Yuwei Lin, and Brenno de Winter)
- "Linux World News"
issue 93, August 2008
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 92, July 2008
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 91, June 2008
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 90, May 2008
(with Yuwei Lin, and Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
- "Linux World News"
issue 89, April 2008
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 88, March 2008
(with Yuwei Lin, and Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
- "Linux World News"
issue 87, February 2008
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 86, January 2008
(with Yuwei Lin, and Brenno de Winter)
- "Linux World News"
issue 85, December 2007
- "Linux World News"
issue 84, November 2007
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 83, October 2007
(with Yuwei Lin, and Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
- "SchoolNet Namibia promotes OSS with Comics - Funny Pages"
If you want to promote the use of open source software, you might like this innovative approach out of Africa - comic strips.
issue 82, September 2007
- "Linux World News"
issue 82, September 2007
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 81, August 2007
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 80, July 2007
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 79, June 2007
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 78, May 2007
(with Yuwei Lin, and Erik Elmar)
- "Linux World News"
issue 77, April 2007
- "Linux World News"
issue 76, March 2007
- "Linux World News"
issue 75, February 2007
(with Christina Haralanova, Yuwei Lin, and Mathieu Lutfy)
- "Linux World News"
issue 74, January 2007
- "Linux World News"
issue 73, December 2006
- "Linux World News"
issue 72, November 2006
(with Christina Haralanova, and Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 71, October 2006
(with Egbert Eich, and Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 70, September 2006
- "Linux World News"
issue 69, August 2006
(with Christina Haralanova, and Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 68, July 2006
(with Christina Haralanova)
- "Linux World News"
issue 67, June 2006
(with Christina Haralanova)
- "Linux World News"
issue 66, May 2006
(with Arturo Fernández Montoro, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, and Adrian Zimmermann)
- "Linux World News"
issue 65, April 2006
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 64, March 2006
(with Yuwei Lin, and Arturo Fernández Montoro)
- "Linux World News"
issue 63, February 2006
(with Yuwei Lin, and Christina Haralanova)
- "Linux World News"
issue 62, January 2006
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 61, December 2005
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 60, November 2005
(with Yuwei Lin and Olexiy Ye. Tykhomyrov)
- "Linux World News"
issue 58, September 2005
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "Linux World News"
issue 57, August 2005
(with Yuwei Lin and Arturo Fernández Montoro)
- "Linux World News"
issue 55, June 2005
- "Linux World News"
issue 54, May 2005
(with Yuwei Lin and Olexiy Ye. Tykhomyrov)
- "Linux World News"
issue 53, April 2005
(with Kuo-Chieh Ting and Ivana Pavic)
- "Linux World News"
issue 52, March 2005
(with Sankarshan Mukhopadhay, Brenno de Winter and Yuwei
Lin)
- "World News"
issue 51, February 2005
(with Yuwei Lin, Alexander Shopov and Christina Haralanova)
- "World News"
issue 50, January 2005
(with Yuwei Lin and Christina Haralanova)
- "World News"
issue 49, December 2004
(with Yuwei Lin, Olexiy Ye. Tykhomyrov, Brenno de Winter, Sankarshan
Mukhopadhay)
- "World News"
issue 48, November 2004
(with Yuwei Lin and Olexiy Ye. Tykhomyrov)
- "World News"
issue 47, October 2004
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "World News"
issue 46, September 2004
(with Yuwei Lin)
- "World News"
issue 45, August 2004
(with Yuwei Lin, Hassan Baba and Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
- "World News"
issue 44, July 2004
(with Yuwei Lin, KG Kumar and Helio Chissini de Castro)
- "World News"
issue 43, June 2004
(with Yuwei Lin and Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
- "World News"
issue 42, May 2004
(with Arturo Fernández Montoro, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, Brenno
de Winter, Yuwei Lin and Olexiy Ye. Tykhomyrov)
- "World News"
issue 41, April 2004
(with Davoud Seyedin Boroujeni, Yuwei Lin and Brenno de Winter)
- "World News"
issue 40, March 2004
(with Arturo Fernandez Montoro, Yuwei Lin and Olexiy Ye. Tykhomyrov)
- "World News"
issue 39, February 2004
(with Brenno de Winter and Márcio L. Vítor)
- "World News"
issue 38, January 2004
(with Elisabeth Bauer, KG Kumar and Brenno de Winter)
- "World News"
issue 37, December 2003
(with Yuwei Lin, Helio Chissini de Castro, Arturo Fernandez Montoro
and Arnt Ove Gregersen)
- ...
- KDE Contributor Conference "Kastle": "There's an aim called 3.2"
It's not too surprising, the KDE Contributor Contributor conference
attracted mainly KDE programmers, who in return produced a lot of code.
But usability aspects are becoming increasingly important.
issue 36, October 2003
- CDox: "Wrapped"
Now that CD writers and blank CDs are affordable, people tend to burn a lot
of CDs. Bot how do you go about labeling the finished product to help you
finf it more easily later? CDox is the software for this job.
issue 36, October 2003
(with Frederik Bijlsma)
- "World News"
issue 36, October 2003
(with Brenno de Winter, Yuwei Lin
and Arturo Fernandez Montoro)
- Using GnuPG Keys: "Key Signing Party"
Modern mail clients can handle GnuPG encryption and decryption with very
little intervention. Unfortunately, you do need to set up the keys -- and that's a task that does not fall far short of rocket science.
issue 35, October 2003
- "World News"
issue 35, October 2003
(with Brenno de Winter
and Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov)
- SMTP via TLS with Evolution, Kmail and Mutt: "Safer Mail"
The secure transmission of electronic mail via the Transport Layer Security
(TLS) cannot replace individual encryption of mail messages. Unfortunately,
although modern mail programs are capable of using the former method, they tend to make it unnecessarily difficult for any users who want to leverage
the benefits of confidentiality and security.
issue 34, September 2003
- KDE Tricks Revealed by KDE Developers: "Hidden but sooo useful"
As long as you don't know them, you probably won't miss them -- but once you
lern about them, it's like an eye-opener: The KDE desktop has many a useful
feature that remains secret to the eyes of the users.
issue 34, September 2003
- KDE Contributor Conference: "Sneak preview"
Usually working in virtual teams, time spent together in person is precious
to most Open Source projects. Linux Magazine asked contributors to the KDE projects of what to expect from the KDE Contributor Conference in late August.
issue 34, September 2003
- "World News"
issue 34, September 2003
(with Colin Murphy,
Gunn Kristin Tjoflot,
Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov
and Yuwei Lin)
- "Software News"
issue 34, September 2003
(with Colin Murphy)
- Repairing Ext2/3 Filesystems On-the-Fly: "Last Gasp Data Rescue"
You can feel your blood run cold when you suddenly discover that a file is
no longer accessible, especially if it happens to be stored on a remote
access root server. But unfortunately, modern hard disks are no longer made
for eternity, so it can happen to everyone. Read on for tips on how to survive
such a crisis.
issue 33, August 2003
- "World News"
issue 33, August 2003
(with Arturo Fernandez Montoro and
KG Kumar)
- Software Development for Linux PDAs: "Zaurus Fodder"
If you are familiar with the Qt Toolkit, you may well have been surprised
to discover how little skill it takes to write programs for the free
PDA desktop, OPIE. The project allows even inexperienced programmers
to work constructively."
issue 32, July 2003
(with Carsten Niehaus)
- "World News"
issue 32, July 2003
(with Arturo Fernandez Montoro and
KG Kumar)
- CeBIT 2003: "Linux attracts"
The boom is over, and even at larger computer fairs like the CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, visitors get their feet on the ground again without kicking their neighbor. But watch out when Linux comes into play!
issue 31, June 2003
- ToDo Manager: "Well Planned"
With email clients such as Evolution already providing fully fledged solutions
for individual information management, who needs a standalone task manager?
(with Frederik Bijlsma)
issue 31, June 2003
This article is a translation of
an article published
in LinuxUser 05/2003.
- LPI Certification: "Testing, testing 1, 2, 3"
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has been running certification exams
for some time. We decided to see what happens when you sign up for a course.
Would the course be only concerned with passing the exam or would they ensure
that you understand why things occur and that the certification was worthwhile.
(with John Southern)
issue 31, June 2003
- Sticky, SUID, SGID -- Special Privileges for Files and Directories: "Taking Privileges"
Read, write, and execute file privileges are explained in nearly every Unix or Linux manual. There is more, the notorious SUID bit, for example.
issue 30, May 2003
This article is a translation of
an article published
in LinuxUser 12/2002.
- "World News"
issue 30, April 2003
(with Hung Chao-Kuei, Yuwei Lin, and Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov)
- Mail User Agents, "Mail and more"
Nobody likes to leave a vital task such as email to chance. The quest is, which
mail user agent is the right one for me?
(with Andrea Müller)
issue 29, April 2003
This article includes translated parts of
an article published
in LinuxUser 03/2003.
- "World News"
issue 29, April 2003
- The SuSE Distribution Network Configuration, "Networking with Yast"
With an ifconfig here, and a route there -- the network configuration commands
are anything, but intuitive. Most people are only too happy to let distribution
specific tools such as SuSE's YaST lend a helping hand.
(with Nico Lumma)
issue 28, March 2003
This article is a translation of
an article published
in LinuxUser 02/2003.
- "World News"
(with Armijn Hemel, and Yuwei Lin)
issue 28, March 2003
- "World News"
(with Leon Brooks, Stephanie Cooke, Armijn Hemel, Davyd Madeley, and Philip Paeps)
issue 27, February 2003
- "Norwegian Award for Linux in schools"
Scandinavia' Open Source scene has a new prize to celebrate: For the first time, the Norwegian Unix Users Group (NUUG) and Oslo University College "Hřgskolen i Oslo" awarded the Norwegian Free Software Prize.
issue 25, November 2002
- GWhere, "A Break for the Disk-Jockey"
The GWhere CD Indexer is just what the doctor ordered for those of you suffering from the "can't quite remember what Linux Magazine subscription CD the xyz tool was on" syndrome.
issue 25, November 2002
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 09/2002.
- KDE Standard Editor Kate,
"Let's Edit"
Thanks to syntax highlighting and similar tricks, editing with KDE's
"Swiss Army Knife" Kate can be fun. The editor can even cope with simple
programming tasks.
(with Stefanie Teufel)
issue 23, September 2002
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 06/2002.
- The Answer Girl,
"Keyboard Wizardry"
Is caps lock getting on your nerves? Still looking for a good way to put your Windows keys back to work? Along with other definitive questions ...
issue 23, September 2002
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 06/2002.
- CrossOver Office,
"Microsoft meets Linux"
Running Microsoft Office under Linux is already possible with CrossOver Office,
though as Patricia Jung explains, it's still far from perfect.
issue 22, Juli/August 2002
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 07/2002.
- Frank Wieduwilt: DTP with Scribus, "Making pages"
Franz Schmid, the author of Scribus, works as a commercial employee in a natural stone company in Eichstaett, Germany. Frank Wieduwilt and Patricia Jung ask Franz about the development of Scribus.
issue 22, Juli/August 2002
This coproduction with Frank is a
translation of an interview published
in Linux User 05/2002.
- Desktopia,
"Command line"
It's not only graphical user interfaces that can be themed. Patricia Jung
embarks on an adventure into the world of themed shells.
issue 21, June 2002
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 04/2002.
- KDE 3.0,
"Small cause, large effect"
KDE 3.0, in its release candidate state, was one of the stars of the
Linux World Expo in New York. Patricia Young (sic!) takes a closer look at the prerelease versions.
issue 20, May 2002
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 03/2002.
- The Answer Girl,
"Command Line Juggler"
The Linux command line can do a great deal more than the good old
DOS command.com. Many of its treasures are hard to find, though,
but Patricia Jung is at hand to help root them out.
issue 19, April 2002
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 02/2002.
- The Answer Girl,
"Installation without tears"
There is one main drawback to self-compiled software: whether or not it can
be neatly uninstalled later depends on your own discipline. As Patricia
Jung explains, there is a remedy at hand.
issue 18, March 2002
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 01/2002.
- The Answer Girl,
"Egalitarianism"
Have your Web links got split ends, simply because upper and lower
case notation was ignored when they were produced? Patricia Jung shows
us how to resolve this problem using a Perl script.
issue 15, December 2001
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 10/2001.
- The Answer Girl,
"Teamwork"
In this issue, Answer Girl gives an introduction to version control
with CVS (Concurrent Versions System). After reading this, when you see the phrase check-in you will no longer think about air travel.
issue 13, October 2001
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 08/2001.
- Ten distributions in a lab test,
"Applied Alchemy"
Most Linux Magazine readers will get themselves a new distribution about
once a year. Now's a good time to do it as all the main distributions
have just come out.
issue 12, September 2001
The article is a
translation of an article published
in Linux-Magazin 10/2001.
- deskTOPia,
"Cursoritis"
Customising the cursor can add to the individuality of your desktop.
You don't have to settle for what XFree86 offers as standard, provided you are
a little bit creative.
issue 12, September 2001
The article is a
translation of an article published
in LinuxUser 06/2001.
- The Answer Girl,
"All in the Translation"
The world of everyday computing, even under Linux, is often
good for surprises is a bit of a truism: Time and again things don't
work, or not as they are supposed to. Linux Magazine's Answer Girl
shows you how to deal elegantly with such little problems.
issue 11, August 2001
The article describes how to write a little dictionary script for the command line and is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 06/2001.
- The Answer Girl,
"Shoveling Data"
The fact that the world of everyday computing, even under Linux, is often
good for surprises is a bit of a truism: Time and again things don't
work, or not as they are supposed to. Linux Magazine's Answer Girl
shows you how to deal elegantly with such little problems.
issue 09, June 2001
The article deals with backups using rsync and is a
translation of an article published
in Linux User 04/2001.
- Crontables at the click of a mouse, "Task Creator at Your Service"
The Cron daemon may be very useful for making the computer execute
one task or another at specific times, but the format in which it
accepts requests takes a bit of getting used to. Which is where the graphic
Crontab creation program can help.
issue 06, March 2001
This article is a translation of an
article published
in Linux User 01/2001.
- The Tutor, "Posting the Mail"
Computers can often give you a surprise, even under Linux. Often things
don't work as they are actually meant to. The Tutor shows you how to
deal with these little problems.
issue 03, 2000
This article is a translation of
The Answer Girl column published
in Linux User 10/2000.
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