Features

Fast App Launching with GNOME Do  by Kyle Rankin

Use GNOME Do and its many plugins to extend desktop functionality.

Xfce: the Third Man  by Federico Kereki

The “other” desktop environment.

Browser Battles: Opera, CrossOver Chromium and Flock  by James Gray

Stuck on Firefox? You may find fulfillment in an alternative browser.

AIR Out Your Desktop with Adobe  by Shawn Powers

Desktop apps for everyone.

Indepth

The Day the Earth Stood Still  by Robin Rowe

Visual effects with Linux.

Run Your Own Virtual Reality with OpenSim  by Bill Childers

Make your own reality, virtually.

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Shawn Powers' Editorial   Celebrating 15 Years of Linux Journal  

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   jQuery Plugins  

Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   The Evolution of the Desktop—How Far from the Pinnacle?  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Counting Words and Letters  

Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Mental Laziness and Bad Dogma to Avoid  

Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   When Disaster Strikes: Hard Drive Crashes  

Doc Searls' EOF   The Most Personal Device  

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