Issue #116 / Jul 2010

Dear Linux Magazine Reader,

Welcome to the newly retooled News section!

The KOffice suite lets you use the RDF capability built into the ODF standard to save, manage, and transmit semantic information.

With KDE 4.4, plasmoids can now be written in JavaScript or QtScript, thus opening up a whole new class of applications. Marcel shows how easy it is to build JavaScript plasmoids.

While users are surfing the web, listening to music, and writing documents, the kernel and various background daemons write information to logfiles. KSystemLog, Gnome System Log Viewer, and MultiTail will help you read and process logfile data.

Nmon monitors system information. You can use the Nmon’s capture mode to output data to a file, then extract the values you need with a script.

Digital GPS-aided treasure hunts, or geocaching, is becoming more popular. We investigate the choice of geocaching software available for Linux.