New Linux User

Warsow your Linux online first-person shooter game

If you love first-person shooter games, Warsow just might be the thing for you. It is based on the novel “Chasseur de bots” which is a French E-novel. (You could read it in English...

Why not try Korn shell?

By default, most of the distros I’ve tried have bash or the Bourne again shell installed in them. Anyhow I was reading an article on Linux.com about korn shell and it seems like a good...

LXDE - another lightweight desktop environment

A link to the LXDE site was on del.icio.us and I just had to click it because in this day and age, I sometimes get tired of eye candy. I like pretty desktop environments, surely but there are times...

Pandora the Linux gaming handheld console

If you love games so much, why not keep an eye on Pandora? It’s the size of a DS but it has a QWERTY keyboard and gaming buttons. It will have a customized Debian-based Linux distro and so...

Link love: How to Manage Your iPod with gtkPod

Disclaimer: I don’t have an iPod but some of you might have one. Or you might come across fellow new Linux users who want to ask you about this topic.HowToForge has a detailed guide on...

Of bash, history and you

The command line — where you type commands and do other funky stuff is sometimes a seemingly different area altogether. It takes time getting used to but it’s worth it. There are a lot...

Linux appreciation time

Sometimes we don’t know how relevant Linux is in our lives. Especially if we are used to blogging on some software set up by someone else, checking our email, etc. etc. Chances are the...

Be a lovable Linux person

This is not a blog post on how to be kind, etc. etc. This is in reaction to a Linux Journal article with the title “How to Make People Love Linux.” The article starts off by defining...

What’s your Ubuntu 8.04 experience like?

Just curious. What’s it like for you? Was it hell? Did you need much tweaking? Were there times that you had to reinstall or you had to reconfigure something? Drop by and let us know here on...

What’s your Ubuntu 4.08 experience like?

Just curious. What’s it like for you? Was it hell? Did you need much tweaking? Were there times that you had to reinstall or you had to reconfigure something? Drop by and let us know here on...