• Gnome's Interface Warts--And Its Future All user interfaces--even that of the vaunted Mac OS--have their warts. What's troublesome on Linux's Gnome desktop? And how long before things improve?
• Post-Install Tips for Ubuntu 7.10 Once you've installed Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon, follow these steps to avoid headaches and make your new OS feel like home.
• First Impressions: Symphony, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon The Free Agent sets his sights on beta releases of IBM's new Lotus Symphony office suite and Ubuntu Linux 7.10.
• Make Installing Free Software for Windows a Snap A look at Win-get, an automated Windows software installer patterned after Debian Linux's apt-get. Also: Should Ubuntu users use Automatix?
• Free Software for Your iPod When is an iPod not an iPod? When it's running Rockbox, the open-source replacement for your MP3 player's brains.
• A Look at Fedora 7 While putting Fedora Linux through its paces, the Free Agent ends up thinking of Ubuntu Linux and what makes it unique.
• Switching Desktops on Ubuntu Here's how to test-drive the 'Big Three' desktop environments on Ubuntu Linux and switch among them at will.
• Seven Post-Install Tips for Ubuntu 7.04 Fixes, extras, and eye candy: Here are seven steps to take just after installing Feisty Fawn.
• New Linux Arrivals Ubuntu's Feisty Fawn has our Linux critic pondering new features--and old troubles.
• All About Wine: Run Windows Apps Under Linux Here's one way to get your Windows apps (well, some of them, anyway) running under Linux.
• Linux Audio Players, Tested and Graded In which our Linux guru falls in love with a Microsoft app (!) and goes searching for an Open Source equivalent. Will he find it?
• Room for Improvement Free Software is great, but it isn't perfect. Here's what could use some polish in the coming year.
• Free Agent: Talk of the Linux Town Perspectives on the Microsoft-Novell deal, Sun's Freeing of Java, and hardware support in Linux.
• Free Agent: How to Compile Free Software Apps Is your Linux package manager outdated? Here's how to compile the latest, greatest versions of your favorite Free Software apps.
• Free Agent: The Latest Free Linux Freespire is the new, cost-free alternative from Linspire. How well does it compete with the likes of Ubuntu's Dapper Drake?
• Free Agent: Meet the Dapper Drake In less than the time it takes to get a tooth drilled, you can install Linux. (There's less pain involved, too.)
• Free Agent: Ubuntu's Missing Batteries Automatix makes supercharging Ubuntu Linux as easy as point and click.
• Free Agent: Vive la Desktop Difference! Linus Torvalds says you should use KDE. Is he right? At long last, the Free Agent's answer to the question: KDE or Gnome?
• Free Agent: A French Penguin Visits The Free Agent takes Mandriva Linux 2006 -- the successor to Mandrake Linux -- for a test drive. The experience is less than magnifique.
• Free Agent: Leaping Lizards, It's SUSE Linux The Free Agent takes SUSE Linux 10.0 for a spin.

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