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This is another revision of the development version of KDE 4 environment. Lots of you have asked why it took me so long to publish this article. Well, I was just waiting for rev 790000, that ’s all. I hope that your curiosity will be satisfied since there’s been a lot of changes to describe this time.

To sum things up: The letter from PKN recommending KT to abstain has been kept secret, Currenlty there is no (required) concensus about OOXML in KT182, There is still no official decision of PKN concerning the OOXML, A couple of lawsuits are possibly on the way, EU investigation is in place. Stay tuned, things are boiling!

Sometimes I get the feeling that Web 2.0 is just too fancy for Linux, loads of tools, websites, and apps are being developed without taking Linux users into consideration. Despite the fact that the number of people using Linux is comparable to the people using Mac OSX if not more. Mac has the “fancy” factor playing for it. But we got the “hacking and modding” factor playing for us ;) ! Here I will take you through some of the best tools and apps out there and how to get them up and running on your Ubuntu (assume 7.10).

Last Thursday PKN (Polish Normalization Committee) had a meeting on which it was supposed to come up with the decision concerning Polish recommendation for ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (OOXML) proposed standard. The common stance has not been acheived.

In this article I am going to explain how to configure and use DOSBox, the best MS DOS emulator for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux systems.

In this article I am going to cover some recent history of computing in a nutshell, from the Polish perspective. This is supposed to be a preface to a series of articles on DOSBox, an MS DOS emulator.

You don’t always see this in the official changelogs but the KDE 4 development is progressing in an extraordinary speed. After a deep look at rev 777000 we are presenting you a new visual review of changes made to KDE 4 during the last couple of weeks, featuring: Amarok updates and new KickOff menu.

Have you watched “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”? If the paralyzed Elle magazine owner used Dasher, he would have finished his book way earlier. Even with only one eye functioning. Read the Dasher story on PolishLinux.org

The Bittorrent network is becoming increasingly popular and perfectly legal. It allows to download the latest movies, music or, to say the least, almost every Linux distribution available.

digiKam 0.10 is not only a port of the application to KDE 4. It also brings a few new features, including 'Timeline' applet. PolishLinux.org has a screenshot tour.

KDE 4.1 will be what everyone expected 4.0 to be — a fully functional revolutionary Linux desktop. I took a look at the revision 777000 of this desktop environment and what you get is a visual changelog describing the current progress in terms of look and feel and features.

A few days ago TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released, a great tool for encrypting your hard drives. It can be used to encrypt existing partitions or create a virtual one located in a single file. In this article we cover the changes in version 5.0 and provide you some useful benchmarks.

Let me ask you a basic question: Which operating system do you use? What are the possible answers? Windows, Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X of course. But let us try to think different for a moment. Maybe it is possible, that this answer would be, for example KDE?

This article completes the LaTeX course on Polishlinux.org. In the previous article regarding writing a dissertation the problem of typography has been omitted. This one concentrates on things like spaces is text, enumerations, special chars, fonts, typefaces and styles.

A great wiki engine used on Wikidot.com is now free software are Wikidot Inc owners: Pieter Hintjens and Piotr Frąckowiak, release the code on AGPLv3 licence just today. This is great news for the Internet as Wikidot is one of the most advanced wiki engines out there, leaving MediaWiki and TWiki far behind.

The article by Keyto explains how to run SLAX-a 6.0 (RC 6) on a USB memory stick straight away. But what many similar guides don't mention, it actually explains how it works underneath.

A dissertation is composed of two elements: the content and the form. The author is certainly the person best qualified to speak about the content. We, however, will focus on the form. We are going to see how to get a fine composition with low time expenditure using LaTeX.

PolishLinux.org has an unconventional review of SLAX 6.0 RC6 which focuses on exploring the nature of LiveCDs and the power of technologies like mounting devices, SquashFS and Union File System in regards to SLAX LiveCD distribution.

Installing Linux is trivial nowadays. You just need to download ISO image, burn it on CD/DVD and reboot the machine. But, what if… the computer doesn’t have a CD drive? Well, don’t worry. In such case you can install Linux directly through the net. This is called PXE and in this article you’ll learn how to use it.

To be able to install a GNU/Linux distribution you need to burn a downloaded ISO image on a CD/DVD disc. At least this is the simplest way to achieve this goal. In this tutorial I am going to describe an easy way to do this under Windows and Linux operating systems and how to prepare your PC for a Linux OS.