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Volume 36 January, 2010 Behind The Scenes: A Chat With Hootiegibbon Book Worms Unite: An E-Book Explosion Game Zone: Modern Warfare 2 Gadgets & Gear: Official PCLinuxOS Store Sproggy's Glass Panel Tutorial 2009: A Look Back Command Line Interface Intro: Part 4 Forum Foibles: New Year's Resolutions 1 And more inside! TTaabbllee OOff CCoonntteennttss Welcome From The Editor Page 3 2009: A Look Back Page 4 ms_meme's Nook: What A Year It Has Been Page 6 Behind The Scenes: A Chat With Hootiegibbon Page 7 Screenshot Showcase Page 9 Game Zone: Modern Warfare 2 Page 10 Computer Languages A to Z: Guile Page 14 Testimonial: Satisfied Customer Page 16 Screenshot Showcase Page 17 Double Take & Mark's Gimp Tip Page 18 You Can Have Your Cake & Eat It Too Page 19 Screenshot Showcase Page 22 Gadgets & Gear: Official PCLinuxOS Store Opens Page 23 Book Worms Unite: An E­Book Explosion Page 24 Screenshot Showcase Page 30 Sproggy's Glass Panel Tutorial Page 31 Screenshot Showcase Page 34 Forum Foibles: New Year's Resolutions Page 35 Command Line Interface Intro: Part 4 Page 37 Screenshot Showcase Page 44 Archiving Movies With dvd::rip ­ An Update Page 45 Testimonial: Easy Printer Setup Page 47 Disclaimer Page 47 More Screenshot Showcase Page 48 2 WWeellccoommee FFrroomm TThhee CChhiieeff EEddiittoorr by Paul Arnote (parnote) the market run on Linux, in the Book Worms Unite: An E­Book Explosion. You may be surprised at just The holidays have finally come and gone, the how much free e­book content you can find out in packages have all been unwrapped, the Christmas the digital realm, if you just look for it. tree and other holiday decorations are coming down, and a new year is upon us. Texstar and the Meemaw has transcribed Sproggy's Glass Panel The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of PCLinuxOS Packaging Crew are busy putting the Tutorial video for the PCLinuxOS Magazine, Texstar. new tool chain to good use, working on getting the creating a step­by­step tutorial of how to create a PCLinuxOS 2010 release nearer to completion. The glass panel background for your desktop. Mark The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online updates continue to roll out at an amazing pace, with Szorady provides another dose of his cartoon, publication containing PCLinuxOS­related materials. It is literally hundreds of new and Double Take, along with another published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS community. The Magazine staff is comprised of volunteers updated packages becoming Gimp Tip. We have a couple of from the PCLinuxOS community. available every week. new testimonials this month, as well. This month's Gadgets & Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com This month's magazine cover Gears column takes a look at the This release was made possible by the following volunteers: features snow covered photos from recently opened Official ms_meme. On the inside, the PCLinuxOS Store on Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) contents are hot enough to melt that CafePress.com, where you can Assistant Editor: Andrew Strick (Stricktoo) snow. To start off, we take a look buy a wide range of products Consultants: Archie Arevalo, Tim Robinson back at notable news of 2009, and emblazoned with the PCLinuxOS Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth logo. Patrick G. Horneker takes a all that has happened with Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme computing, PCLinuxOS, Linux, and look at some of the less­obvious HTML Layout: Galen Seaman FOSS. Peter Kelly continues his ways (other than VirtualBox and Command Line Interface Intro VMWare) to run other operating Staff: systems on a PCLinuxOS system, Neal Brooks ms_meme column, with part four of his Galen Seaman Mark Szorady continuing series. Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. with his You Can Have Your Cake Patrick Horneker Macedonio Fernandez continues his march through the & Eat It Too article. Malcolm Guy Taylor Meemaw alphabet of computer languages, Ripley reprises his Archiving Andrew Huff Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. taking a look at Guile in his Movies With dvd::rip article, with further tips on how to use dvd::rip Contributors: Computer Languages A to Z Peter Kelly Malcolm Ripley series. Hootiegibbon chats with to archive your DVD movie Brian Blanchette PCLinuxOS Magazine, in the collection. Behind The Scenes column, where we continue to get to know the folks who work so diligently behind Meanwhile, I hope each and every one of you have The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution­NonCommercial­Share­Alike 3.0 the scenes to make PCLinuxOS the quality Linux had a wonderful holiday season, and I hope that the Unported license. Some rights are reserved. Copyright © distro that it is. We take a look at the recent e­book New Year brings you happiness, prosperity, good 2010. explosion, where many of the e­book readers out on health, and bundles of good fortune. 3 22000099:: AA LLooookk BBaacckk by Paul Arnote (parnote) infringement over the use of VFAT in their GPS MAY, 2009 systems. With the arrival of 2010, it's a good time to take a • World of Goo for Linux released. • Moblin 2.0 Beta released by Intel. This time, it's look back at all that has gone on, both with • VirtualBox 2.1.4 released. based off a Fedora core, instead of an Ubuntu core. PCLinuxOS and Linux, during 2009. Without a • Android 1.1 released. Specifically designed for Intel's Atom processor, and doubt, 2009 had seen many events related to both, for use on netbooks using said processor. large and small. Let's take a look, month by month, MARCH, 2009 • Gnome 2.26.2 released. at all that has transpired. My list is not all­inclusive, • SourceForge's 2009 Community Choice Awards and only scratches the surface. However, I've • Texstar returns to the helm, after taking a leave to announced. included a lot of "highlights" of development that's deal with personal business. • Nokia opens Qt tool kit source code repositories to flying along with many popular packages. It does • PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Released the public. seem that development is alive and well with • TomTom and Microsoft settle patent dispute, after • OpenOffice 3.1 released. PCLinuxOS, and with FOSS in general. 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FEBRUARY, 2009 • Gnome 2.26.1 released. • Python 3.1 released. • VirtualBox 2.2.0 released. • Qt 4.5.2 released. • PCLinuxOS N1PTT TR6 Released • KDE 4.2.2 released. • Intel develops a simpler alternative to ACPI for • Microsoft files suit against TomTom for patent Linux, called Simple Firmware Interface, or SFI. A 4 2009: A Look Back patch has been developed and submitted for the • Andrew Strick named Assistant Editor of the NOVEMBER, 2009 2.6.32 kernel. magazine. • First USB 3.0 drivers emerge for Linux. • OpenOffice 3.1.1 released. • Google Chrome OS Beta released. • Linux kernel 2.6.30 released. • KDE 4.3.1 released. • KDE 4.3.3 released. • Amarok 2.1 released. • VirtualBox 3.1.0 released. • KDE 4.2.4 released. SEPTEMBER, 2009 • KOffice 2.1 released. • Android 2.0 source code released. 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