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This “Linux Product Insider” features the book FIRST LEGO League, iStor Networks’ integraSuite/MC Management Center, WaveMaker’s Visual Ajax Studio 4.0, Perforce 2008.1 SCM System and FST’s FancyPants SDK.

Here’s what’s new and noteworthy this week in Linux and open source:

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We were lost in Boston’s South End, looking for Thayer Street. Street signs are optional around Boston, and the locals didn’t know either the street or our precise destination…

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Back in the mid-90s, when Linux was still at 1.something, website design was a simple exercise that left matters such as font choice up to the user. It was blessedly free of the Tyranny of Typography, the Legacies of Layout, and other controlling influences from the Provinces of Print. Better yet, it was free by design from withering rebuke by aesthetes whose high-minded “taste” made life miserable for both writers and readers. Back then

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What are we doing to expose new users to Linux and Open Source solutions? My wife, after coming back from a visit to our local electronics store asked me why there were no “boxes” of Linux on the shelves, or PCs supporting the OS on display?

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The Master view in Impress is the equivalent of page styles in Writer. It’s the view where you can set elements of design that appear throughout your presentation, such as the slide background and foreground colors, any reoccurring elements, and the fonts. By creating the master slides you need before you add content, you can automate your work and free yourself to focus on content.

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If you have ever had a hard drive fail on a remote server you may remember the feeling you had after trying to issue the following commands:

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ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation aggregation platform enables the creation of high-end x86-based symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems, providing superior performance at prices significantly lower than traditional SMPs and comparable to managed x86 clusters.

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The X Window System is a magnificent platform for many uses, but using it to run an application over a slow network is nearly impossible. This is an introduction to NX, a technology that makes remote applications fly even over commodity internet.

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* Cedega
* Crossover
* VirtualBox
* VMWare
* Wine
* Other (please tell us in the comments what you're using)
* I don't need or want to run Windows apps on my Linux desktop

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If you use Nagios to monitor
your system and run openSUSE
on a remote server the bash script presented here will check for
online updates and is designed to be run by Nagios so that the
result will appear on the Nagios service-detail page.

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