Issue #141 / Aug 2012

SERVICE: August 2012: DVD Inlay

Issue #141
This month’s DVD features the latest release from Fedora – the popular community Linux sponsored by Red Hat....

SERVICE: Welcome

Editorial

I’m waking up today to headlines heralding the end of an era. This era, of course, will be over somewhere between 4 and 10 weeks by the time you read this, but something as important as an era deserves a little time for mourning and reflection. The reason why this era is ending, according to the newsphere, is because Microsoft just announced a new tablet computer, which they are calling the Microsoft Surface tablet. The reason this new tablet ends an era is because Microsoft has never before embraced this role of selling PC-like hardware.

SERVICE: Table of Contents: 141

Living with Windows

Interacting with the Windows world has never been easier. This month we look at Windows apps in Linux and Linux partitions in Windows.

SERVICE: On the DVD: Fedora 17

This month's DVD

This month’s DVD features the latest release from Fedora – the popular community Linux sponsored by Red Hat.

NEWS: Linux News

Partnership
• Red Hat and Dell combine for hard/software IT solutions
• Fedora 17 released
• News Bites

NEWS: Tech Tools

Linux Mint Announces mintBox

ownCloud Introduces Version 4

Mozilla Updates Thunderbird

Obnam 1.0 Released

COVER STORY: Practical Wine

Building a Wine environment for Windows applications

More and more Windows applications run on Linux thanks to Wine. If you spend a little time on configuration and troubleshooting, you won’t be stuck in Windows – even with applications that no one dreamed would run on Linux.

COVER STORY: Ext2Fsd

Accessing Linux filesystems from Windows with Ext2Fsd

Sure you can access Windows partitions from Linux. But what if you want to connect to your Linux partitions from Windows? Ext2Fsd offers an easy solution.

COVER STORY: CrossOver

Install and run Windows applications on Linux with CrossOver

If Wine has thrown you into the impenetrable depths of operating system arcana, you might try CrossOver, a commercial application that contributes to the Wine project.

COVER STORY: Resetting Passwords with SystemRescueCd

Resetting passwords with a Live Linux system

If you’re locked out of your Linux or Windows system, a handy Live Linux troubleshooting distro might be all you need to get back in. We’ll show you how to pick the lock with SystemRescueCd.