Linux Journal Issue #179/March 2009

Features

Fast App Launching with GNOME Do  by Kyle Rankin
Use GNOME Do and its many plugins to extend desktop functionality.
Xfce: the Third Man  by Federico Kereki
The “other” desktop environment.
Browser Battles: Opera, CrossOver Chromium and Flock  by James Gray
Stuck on Firefox? You may find fulfillment in an alternative browser.
AIR Out Your Desktop with Adobe  by Shawn Powers
Desktop apps for everyone.

Indepth

The Day the Earth Stood Still  by Robin Rowe
Visual effects with Linux.
Run Your Own Virtual Reality with OpenSim  by Bill Childers
Make your own reality, virtually.

Columns

Shawn Powers' Editorial   Celebrating 15 Years of Linux Journal  
Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   jQuery Plugins  
Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   The Evolution of the Desktop—How Far from the Pinnacle?  
Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Counting Words and Letters  
Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Mental Laziness and Bad Dogma to Avoid  
Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   When Disaster Strikes: Hard Drive Crashes  
Doc Searls' EOF   The Most Personal Device  

Departments

From the Editor  
Letters  
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New Products  
New Projects