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HOWTO: Rip DVDs to a MythTV server and consolidate your home video for easy access to your media.

Even if a system can’t provide raster graphics, there’s no reason it can’t offer the convenience of windowed interfaces. Perhaps you’ve never heard of it, or perhaps you’ve just forgotten about it — in any case, the ncurses library lets you build windowed applications for character-based displays.

Take a stroll down Memory Lane and learn about XFree86 — from its humble beginnings to its current status as the official X.

If you’re interested in writing portable GUI-based applications for Linux, the “GIMP Toolkit,” or GTK+, can provide you with a strong foundation to build on.

When it comes to pictures, Linux has a lot more to offer than just the GIMP. Find out what cool tools are available.

Keep Your Strategy on Track to Build an Empire with the Latest Game from Loki

Our story begins late in the evening, in the halls of an Internet publishing start up: Sherry, working under tight deadlines and unreasonable demands, is sitting in a dimly lit room, trying desperately to integrate some badly-scanned drawings into her Web pages. A knock on the door breaks her concentration. She spins her chair to face the pale faced man she knows only as Gizmo. “What do you want?” she asks.