Why Linux isn’t on the desktop yet
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 modern 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.
TechTips
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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Find a quick, elegant, or (at least) effective way to do something? Discover a solution to a longstanding problem? Locate an obscure but useful feature? Pass it along! Not all of us write code, but all of us can take part in the philosophy of users helping each other by contributing our favorite tricks, workarounds, and undocumented (or sparsely documented) features. Send yours in! You’ll get credit (unless you ask that your name and address be withheld, which request we’ll honor).
And check back often. As the quantity of tips and tricks grows, we’ll put them in searchable form here for you.
User Questions: Hitting a snag you just can’t work around? Send us your questions, and we’ll do our best to provide an answer.