You can capture video of all of the amazing things happening on your desktop with one of Linux's many screencasting applications. These programs are perfect for creating demonstrations for blogs and tutorials, and for illustrating projects with more than just still images.

This article shows how you can install the Zimbra Desktop email client on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. Zimbra Desktop is a full-fledged replacement for email clients such as Outlook or Evolution, offering email, contacts, calendar, documents, tasks, etc. You can use it in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) or any other email account that supports POP3 or IMAP.

"The brazilian music teacher Gilberto Borges tells us that he has finished the last Musix GNU+Linux 1.0 stable version on CD, a 100% free operating system for artists focused on music production, based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix..." --
* What is Musix GNU+Linux?

"I think that the next big thing in GUI apps should be the ability to take the exact contents of a window and send them to a remote machine [...] you could just "clone" the window so that it appeared on your work machine [...] One of the nice things about running many apps in Emacs is that I already have that ability. I can just use the multi-tty support in Emacs 23..."

"...despite itself, the 'Linux' community needs us in the Free Software community to remind them of what's really at stake. It riles people up when I openly criticize Linux. I honestly couldn't care less about the kernel, nor the Unix design in general. My main focus is on control, ensuring that the user remains in control of their machine and their data..."

Lenovo has announced its entry into the "netbook" market. The Linux-based IdeaPad S9 and Windows-XP-based S10 feature 8.9- and 10-inch displays, respectively, plus 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processors, 1.3 megapixel webcams, 802.11b/g wireless networking, and up to 160GB of storage, says the company.

Beagle and Tracker are projects that allow you to index your files so you can quickly search filesystems. Both projects started out with the intention of being used with the GNOME desktop, but have recently made a push to be desktop-independent and work with KDE and other desktop environments. Over two days, we'll compare their usability and performance.