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Linux Journal Weekly News Notes - February 20, 2008

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This is the February 20th edition of the Linux Journal Weekly News Notes.

Call us social networking fools, or just fools depending on your take on
social networking sites. Linux Journal is now on Twitter
(http://twitter.com/linuxjournal), Flickr
(http://www.flickr.com/groups/linuxjournal/pool/) and Facebook
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Houston-TX/Linux-Journal/10098036614).

How do you feel about social networks as a whole? Which sites, if any at
all, do you use or frequent? We've opened up a forum on the topic. Please
ring in with your opinion,
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/social-networking.

All our best,

Carlie Fairchild and everyone at Linux Journal
publisher@...


FEATURED ON LINUXJOURNAL.COM

Microsoft's DreamSpark -- What a Giveaway by Glyn Moody

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveawa\
y
Two days ago, Microsoft announced DreamSpark -- an ironic name, since it
actually lays bare Microsoft's worst nightmare: that more and more of
tomorrow's programmers are growing up using free software for their
studies, which means that as they move out into the world, there will be
less and less demand for Microsoft's tools, and even fewer programs written
for its platforms. Its answer? Find out here.

Make Your Application Accessible with Accerciser by Eitan Isaacson
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9991
You might think you need to be familiar with assistive technologies like
the Orca screen reader to determine whether your application is accessible.
The truth is that with just a couple simple rules and an open-source tool
called Accerciser, the task at hand is fairly simple.

A Shortcut for Creating Shortcuts by Brian Jones
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/shortcut-creating-shortcuts
If you come from the world of Windows, you undoubtedly understand the
concept of a shortcut. In the Linux world, shortcuts do exist, but they're
generally referred to as symbolic links, or symlinks. They are so named
because, like shortcuts, a symlink is really just a symbolic placeholder or
link to the file or directory you're trying to get at.


LIVE FROM THE FIELD
Linux Journal staff sound off

Justin Ryan, LinuxJournal.com's News Editor, tells us SCO is back, and this
time it's personal.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/sco-back-and-time-its-personal

Yours truly shares a hands-on video of the Google Android taken at Mobile
World in Barcelona.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/hands-google-android

James Gray, Products Editor, shares with us, "Fun With VMware Workstation,
Part Deux".
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/fun-vmware-workstation-part-deux


FROM THE VAULT
Popular articles featured in back issues of Linux Journal

Asus Eee PC by Jes Hall
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9947
The ASUS Eee PC is an extremely small, ultraportable notebook at the
cheapest end of the market. At $399 US, it's supremely affordable. The
entire industry has been buzzing around it, with Asus claiming that it was
America's most popular Christmas gift.

Standard Operating Procedures for Embedded Linux Systems by Chi-Hung Chou,
Tsung-Hsien Yang, Shih-Chiang Tsao and Ying-Dar Lin
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9686
Follow these procedures for the smoothest path to great embedded Linux.


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