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Volume 38 March, 2010 KDE 4: Krunner Grows Up H! AS KDE 4: Okular Does More Than FL Just PDFs 2010 Beta 1 Available KDE 4: A Brief Look At Configuring For Download! Dolphin Computer Languages A to Z: Icon Music Notation Software Command Line Interface Intro: Part 6 Game Zone: GBrainy Double Take & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip Forum Foibles ms_meme's Nook Web Browser Roundup Secure Passwords, Made Easy1 TTaabbllee OOff CCoonntteennttss Welcome From The Chief Editor 3 Flash! 2010 Beta 1 Available For Download! 4 Disclaimer Behind The Scenes: travisn000 5 1. All the contents of the NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine are only for general information and/or use. Such contents do not Double Take & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip 9 constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision. 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No representations, warranties or guarantees whatsoever are Forum Foibles: Limericks 23 made as to the accuracy, adequacy, reliability, completeness, suitability, or applicability of the information to a particular KDE 4: Okular Does More Than Just PDFs 27 situation. 5. Certain links on the magazine lead to resources located on servers maintained by third parties over whom the NEW Music Notation Software in PCLinuxOS 29 PCLinuxOS Magazine has no control or connection, business or otherwise. These sites are external to the NEW Command Line Interface Intro: Part 6 33 PCLinuxOS Magazine and by visiting these, you are doing so of your own accord and assume all responsibility and liability Screenshot Showcase 41 for such action. Game Zone: gbrainy 42 Material Submitted by Users A majority of sections in the magazine contain materials submitted by 2009 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards 44 users. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine accepts no responsibility for the content, accuracy, conformity to applicable laws of such material. Screenshot Showcase 45 Entire Agreement ms_meme's Nook: PCLOS You Light Up My Screen 46 These terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or Web Browser Roundup 47 oral, regarding such subject matter. More Screenshot Showcase 51 2 WWeellccoommee FFrroomm TThhee CChhiieeff EEddiittoorr As Spring's arrival (in the Northern Hemisphere) 2010 Beta 1 release was just announced by Additionally, all the regular features are still here, in brings a much anticipated annual renewal in nature, Texstar. It will go out to developers first, and then the March 2010 issue. Ms_meme's Nook features this Spring is also bringing the much anticipated open to a public beta. For more information about another of her PCLinuxOS songs, and in keeping renewal of PCLinuxOS, as users across the globe the most recent Beta release, see the article on with an Irish theme for March, Forum Foibles eagerly await the release of PCLinuxOS 2010. The page four. features Limericks. Mark Szorady (georgetoon) wait is definitely getting shorter, as the PCLinuxOS gives us another installment of Double Take, along This month brings us another installment of Gary with another of Mark's Quick Gimp Tip. Plus, we Ratliff's exploration of programming languages, with feature another 10 screen shots, from the Computer Languages A to Z: Icon. We continue PCLinuxOS forum's Monthly Screen Shots, in our look at those who work Behind The Scenes to Screenshot Showcase. make PCLinuxOS what it is, learning more about travisn000 this month. With the new release of As the month goes on, pay particularly close PCLinuxOS 2010 looming on the horizon, we attention to the PCLinuxOS home page and the continue our look at KDE 4 SC with three more PCLinuxOS forum. I predict that the announcements articles highlighting what's new in KDE 4. First, KDE are going to come along pretty fast, as we move 4: KRunner Grows Up takes a look at the changes ever closer to the final release of PCLinuxOS 2010. and enhancements to KRunner. Second, Andrew Texstar and the Packaging Crew have worked hard Strick (stricktoo) gives us a brief glimpse at how to on bringing PCLinuxOS 2010 to fruition, and customize Dolphin, the default file manager in KDE continue to tweak it to live up to PCLinuxOS 4. Third, I explore the new document viewer in KDE standards, where everything "just works" and is 4, with KDE 4: Okular Does More Than Just PDFs. "Radically Simple." I also show a way to use MP3 files to create secure Until then, I wish each of you prosperity, happiness, passwords, in the article Secure Passwords, Made tranquility, and peace. Easy. There's also a look at the results from the LinuxQuestions.org 2009 Members Choice Awards. Meemaw reviews gbrainy, for this month's Game Zone article. Galen Seaman (gseaman) reviews the Music Notation Software in PCLinuxOS. Andrew Huff (athaki) does a web browser roundup, taking a look at all the various web browsers in the PCLinuxOS repository. Peter Kelly (critter) picks up where he left off last month, and gives us Command Line Interface Intro: Part 6. 3 FFLLAASSHH!! 22001100 BBeettaa 11 AAvvaaiillaabbllee ffoorr DDoowwnnllooaadd by Paul Arnote (parnote) The 2010 Beta 1 represents many months of continued, hard work by Texstar and the Packaging Crew, culminating in a very uptodate PCLinuxOS By the time you are reading this, the PCLinuxOS that has the latest stable applications, desktop 2010 Beta 1 will most likely be open to the public (or environment, and kernel. Additionally, PCLinuxOS very soon will be). On February 27, 2010, Texstar 2010 will have a PAE kernel to allow users with more than 4 GB of memory to have access to that The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of announced that the PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 was Texstar. ready to go out to developers. memory, up to 64 GB. Besides the regular kernel and the PAE kernel, PCLinuxOS will also have a The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online legacy kernel (for older hardware), a real time publication containing PCLinuxOSrelated materials. It is Keep in mind that this is beta software. As such, it kernel, and a kernel that uses BFS scheduling. published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS is not intended for regular daily use, and the risk of community. The Magazine staff is comprised of volunteers data loss is real. So, you are warned – do NOT use from the PCLinuxOS community. this if you cannot risk the data loss. Check the PCLinuxOS home page and the PCLinuxOS forum for more details on how to Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com download the PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1. Before installing this, or any other operating system This release was made possible by the following volunteers: update, it is also highly recommended that you back up your current data. You might also want to create Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) Assistant Editor: Andrew Strick (Stricktoo) a remaster of your current system ... just in case. Consultants: Archie Arevalo, Tim Robinson Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth, ms_meme Of course, the painless way to give the PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 a good shakedown is to install it into a Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme HTML Layout: Galen Seaman virtual machine, such as VirtualBox or VMware. So, A magazine just isn't a magazine now on with the particulars. without articles to fill the pages. Staff: Neal Brooks ms_meme What's included in the PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1? Galen Seaman Mark Szorady If you have article ideas, or if you Patrick Horneker Macedonio Fernandez would like to contribute articles to the Guy Taylor Meemaw * Linux kernel 2.6.32.8pclos4 Andrew Huff Andrew Strick * KDE 4.4 SC PCLinuxOS Magazine, Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. Paul Arnote * Updated xorg server send an email to: Contributors: * Updated mylivecd [email protected] Peter Kelly * Updated firmware packages * Plymouth bootsplash We are interested in general articles * Updated KMenu arrangement about Linux, and (of course), articles The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative * Speedboot Commons AttributionNonCommercialShareAlike 3.0 * and lots more updates! specific to PCLinuxOS. Unported license. Some rights are reserved. Copyright © 2010. 4 BBeehhiinndd TThhee SScceenneess:: ttrraavviissnn000000 by Paul Arnote (parnote) by that I didn't get to school before the computer lab opened at 6:30am. In the continuing "Behind The Scenes" series, we get the chance this month to learn more about Travisn000, a When did you make the switch to Linux, and global moderator on the PCLinuxOS forum.