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Interview: Bart Decrem -- Leveraging desktop Linux

Co-founder of Eazel and now Vice President of Business Development with Hancom Linux, Bart Decrem gives his appraisal of his company's future and that of other Linux companies and Linux on the desktop in general.

Loki: A promising plan gone terribly wrong

A Federal bankruptcy trustee has finalized the demise of Loki Software, a company that over three years became famous simultaneously for excellent Linux ports of popular game titles and for financial weirdness on an heroic scale -- weirdness that left its programmers and others holding the (empty) bag. The story of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

The Sad Parable of OS/2

IBM's first 32-bit version of its advanced PC operating system was released 10 years ago this month. It was better than anything around, yet it failed. Its hopes were pinned on many of the same things we hope today will bring Linux to the forefront. What lessons are to be learned? Will we learn them? A glimpse of a sorry chapter in computing history.

Interview: Miguel de Icaza

No one finds Miguel de Icaza boring, and his recent interview with Linux and Main is no exception. In it, he discusses his belief that .NET and Mono are the wave of the future, his view of Microsoft Corp., his explanation of how there can be times when selling closed-source software is justified, as well as the .GNU project, the importance of making sure Linux and its desktops can run on the machines found in poorer nations, the future of Linux in both the business and consumer spheres, and even the things that motivate programmers.

The project of the week:

Gimp-print

If you have a digital camera and color inkjet printer, you're cheating yourself if you don't have gimp-print.

Earlier projects of the week:

Album

With the popularity of digital cameras comes the desire to make the pictures they produce available, either over the internet or on CD. Nothing makes this easier than Album.

Rosegarden

You probably have something called "rosegarden" on your machine right now -- but it's nothing like the musical notation and sequencing program its developers have in the works.

CheckInstall

You can use a package manager, or you can compile your own software, but trying to do both can cause problems. CheckInstall solves them.

The RULE Project

Modern Linux distributions require modern hardware, making them unavailable to a big part of the world. The RULE Project aims to change all that.

Linux Step-by-Step

It started three years ago when a group of users on a Caldera mailing list decided a new layer of documentation was needed, and it's been growing ever since.

Sketch

Need a great little vector-drawing program? Give Sketch a try.

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