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Tutorial: Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Part 2 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Part 2 of this series will give you a tour of the networking interfaces in Ubuntu; which are surprisingly somewhat similar to Windows XP. You'll soon be connecting, checking connection details, and browsing network computers in the Linux world.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6497/1/

Tutorial: Record Your Desktop With recordMyDesktop - (Found July 2, 2008 )

A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when you're teaching someone how to do something on a computer, and recordMyDesktop is a great little Linux application for creating screencasts. YouTube is full of recordMyDesktop screencasts showing all kinds of captures, including BerylCompiz in action. Carla Schroder shows you how it's done.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6489/1/

Report: Virtualizing the Embedded World: Vista Over Linux in a Cell Phone - (Found July 2, 2008 )

While you probably won't run Vista as a virtual machine on your cell phone, there are many viable use cases of virtualization for embedded applications. The most simplest, cheapest, feature rich is using Linux and KVM. KVM developer Dor Laor walks through the advantages of this embedded combination.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6490/1/

Tutorial: Record Your Desktop With recordMyDesktop, Part 2 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Last week we learned how to make simple video screencasts on Linux with recordMyDesktop. Today we're going to record audio from a microphone, get acquainted with JACK, and convert MyDesktop's Ogg files into AVI formats.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6491/1/

Review: Fedora 9 Falls A Little Short - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Reviewer Dan Lynch takes a test drive on the latest release of Fedora. His experience: some really neat features overshadowed by a lack of stability and too cutting-edge software.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6492/1/

Review: First Look: openSUSE 11 with KDE4 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

openSUSE 11 was released today, but reviewer Dan Lynch got an early look at the final product. The early verdict: solid, with many office-friendly features for the business desktop. Details and screenshots within.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6493/1/

Tutorial: PulseAudio Tames the Linux Audio Zoo, Part 1 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

A number of distributions include PulseAudio as an option, but brings with it a few woes as well, and has a lot of users asking "How does adding Yet Another Sound Server to Linux help anything" Carla Schroder fills in the blanks.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6494/1/

Tutorial: Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Part 1 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Can't seem to find the shares of Ubuntu machines from My Network Places or Network in Windows You'll soon find out it's not a hide-and-seek game you'll win unless you start playing with features that exist on the computer, rather than chasing those you imagine are installed and setup.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6495/1/

Tutorial: PulseAudio Tames the Linux Audio Zoo, Part 2 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

After encountering a number of problems on both Kubuntu Gutsy and Hardy and debugging them, this week's PulseAudio series entry will be Fixing buntu. This may be useful to users on other other distributions as well because it covers permission problems, ALSA problems, and init problems, so everyone is welcome to tag along.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6496/1/

Tutorial: Photo Editing For Real People With Fotox - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Fotox comes with a small but useful feature set, including red-eye repair, sharpen, bend, stretch, noise reduction, cropping, and resize. It only supports the JPEG format. It fills a neglected niche in Linux photo editing, and that is an easy-to-use photo editor that includes the most commonly-used functions. It also comes with two useful features that a lot of bigger image editors don't have: panorama and HDR.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6488/1/