It's the file formats, stupid!

The man who made E-commerce possible

It's called public-key encryption. You've heard of it; chances are you've used it. But do you know how it works? You will after you've read this.

Ximian GNOME on a low-resources machine

The ability to run a moden Linux desktop on a low-end system might be an interesting exercise for some of us, but there are those to whom it's not a matter of choice. Does Ximian's distribution of GNOME provide adequate performance on such a system?

Stupid -- and not-so-stupid -- KMail tricks

Bouncing spam, as well as some other things that you can do with KMail, though you'll do them at your own risk, because mostly what they'll do is annoy people.

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Several roads to highly efficient desktops

Our article on using Ximian on a low-end machine produced dozens of tips, most anatomically possible. Here's a rundown.

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