IN THE beginning Microsoft laughed at Linux and free software, claiming it was just an operating system for hackers and hobbyists, posing no real threat to their domination of the computing industry. Now it’s a very different story and Microsoft admits that Linux is their number one threat.

'm very picky when it comes to music players, so I tested: Rythmbox (obviously, it comes with Ubuntu), Jajuk, aTunes, the new Exaile and Banshee, Songbird, Guayadeque, GMusicBrowser and Amarok 1.4 and 2

There's been quite a bit of hubub about the KDE project ever since the 4.0 release. Critics have slammed the 4.0 series repeatedly. Between the poor publicity, the crashes in Plasma, and the still-developing early features, KDE was definitely not having a good time. However, for all the bad rap that the 4.0 series received, KDE has grown wonderfully.

So you would like to build your own custom Linux box? Great! In this article we will be discussing hardware components. It doesn't take a genius to build your own computer from scratch, just some knowledge and elbow-grease (umm..wash your hands before touching the hardware!).

The USB Linux installation enables you to install a portable Linux operating SYSTEM on a flash drive or USB key no larger than your thumb. This portable Linux operating system can then be run from any computer that can boot from a flash device.

cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling priority stuff, but on the real cpu usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.

Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now left the fold and written a book about why the Redmond way will fail. Oh yeah, Curtis is not afraid to speak his mind as a Linux guru, either.

Part two of a quick-start guide to the recovering deleted data on Linux or Unix partitions. Focus on lazarus from TCT