Mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts

add speed and simplicity to PC

operations. Mouse gestures used to

be the domain of Opera and Mozilla

users,but KHotKeys now brings them

to Konqueror for users of KDE 3.2 or

newer.You can even launch non-KDE

programs with KHotKeys.

Even the smallest desktop has room

for a panel. If your choice of a window

manager does not support a suitable

panel alternative,you can always add

a panel like SuxPanel. Suxpanel provides

many useful features for the

desktop,and it even it even supports

plug-ins.

Both KDE and GNOME have display

managers.We’ll look at the features

offered by KDM and GDM,and we’ll

examine how to configure a display

manager for your Linux system.

Home and business users are starting to wonder how Windows Vista will work with Linux. In this month’s cover story, we’ll show you Vista from the eye of Linux.

Google Earth lets you view the world from space and zoom in on towns, roads, and even buildings. We’ll show you how to travel the planet from your Linux desktop.

If you’re one of those users who just wants to slip the CD into the drive and answer the prompts,your are probably content with a Red Hat installation. But if you are someone who wants it your own way,you might be looking for a better fit.We’ll show you how to get it.

Do you ever wish you could run Linux within Linux? Or how about DOS within Linux? QEMU is an open source application that lets you emulate a complete hardware environment within your Linux system.

Microsoft has been quite successful with pushing its SharePoint technology as a means for supporting document collaboration and version control. Until now, no direct competitors have come up with a viable alternative to SharePoint, but O3Spaces is about to change that.