Why give away just a computer when you can give away an entire software system? Tinker with our Linux-based operating system, then come back later this week and show off in PM's new user-powered myMod community!

For the past couple of issues we are striving to reward our loyal readers and this time we have something big. One of the cover topics of (IN)SECURE Magazine 14 is wireless security, so you can be the lucky one which will win a Linksys WRTG54G Wireless-G Router accompanied with the "Linksys WRTG54G Ultimate Hacking"[1] book.

While it's unclear what Maka stands for, the "giga" part of Makagiga most likely refers to the number of tools this application has on offer. It comes with a to-do manager, RSS reader, a basic photo viewer/editor, a text editor, miscellaneous widgets, and much more. Makagiga is written in Java, so it runs on any platform with Java Runtime Environment.

"So everyone has been breaking my back over using SlideShare to distribute my presentations - and for a good reason: It's not open and it uses a proprietary distribution format. [...]

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

In his article “Painless dual-booting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and a MacBookPro,” Noah Gift shows how to install RHEL 5 on a Mac. This article shows you some customizations that will make your newly installed Red Hat system look like Mac OS X.

Just tried Arch 0.8 out in VirtualBox.. What is Arch Linux? How does it perform? Read along and I’ll give you my first impressions.

AMD's John Bridgman has confirmed that they are in the process of hiring new people to do all of the planned documentation and support work that will help the open-source community. Within a couple weeks, these new AMD employees will begin this crusade.