[GNU/LinuxInIndia] Digit April 2006... and FLOSS

For a long time, I had this impression that DIGIT was too
Windows-focussed. The April 2006 issue (www.thinkdigit.com price Rs 125)
was a welcome change.

Below are some details of what the issue contains. Go for it:

* Fast track to [GNU]Linux, a 178-page handy guide small-sized.
  Includes What is [GNU]Linux, getting GNU/Linux running, inside
  Linux, the X Windows system, tools and applications, multimedia
  and gaming, networking, distributions, system administration,
  resources. (My only regret is that page 178 lists just five
  user-groups in big cities -- Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune
  and Trivandrum... while completely overlooking smaller but
  active user-groups, Goa for instance.]

* On the CD: Gentoo 2006.0, AmaroK, Drupal 4.6.x, Damn Small Linux,
  Fluxbox, GNOME Sensors Applet. Also Byzantine OS, Puppy Linux
  1.0.8r1, Epiphany, Evolution, Galeon 2.0.1, XFCE4, Ubuntu 5.10.
  Portable Firefox 1.5, OpenOffice.org.

* Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, and many
  command line tools. All applications are chosen with the best
  balance of functionality, size and speed. Damn Small also has
  the ability to act as an SSH/FTP/HTTPD server right off of
  a live CD.

* Kplayer is the KDE media player based on MPlayer. With
  Kplayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and 
  audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface
  that follows KDE standards.

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  Articles in the magazine...
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* Fandom of the Opera. (Not really Free Software, but comes
  with a version for GNU/Linux.)
* Enjay Network Solutions www.enjayworld.com offers solutions
  for ThinClients, supporting Win2K,2K3, Linux, fullscreen
  DOS and Citrix MetaFrame (ICA).
* Digital Tools | Tips & Tricks covers (i) Damn Small Linux
  (ii) View HTML mail in Dillo * Set up an Internet Connection
  on DSL (iv) Keeping track of network traffic on GNU/Linux
  (v) MP3 in text mode, MP3Blaster.
* Mix tracks using Audacity. One-page article.
* Life in a USB nutshell."Portable applications are built
  for the sole purpose of being run off a USB stick -- no
  installation, no writing settings to anything other than
  its own folder, and best of all, nearly all of them are
  free." Talks a lot about OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, i.Scribe,
  Firefox, MPlayer, etc.
* An article: "Is Piracy Good?" "Let's say Microsoft makes a
  Windows version that is un-crackable. Let's say it's Vista
  for this example. What happens then?... a lot of people start
  using Linux! Lindows, SuSE, Ubunut, you chooose..."
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