Profile: Mackenzie Morgan


I'm a 19-year-old LinuxChick (check out http://linuxchix.org )

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  • GRAMPS: Open Source Genealogy

    July 5, 2008

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    When we’re kids, we learn stories of the past from our grandparents, often involving their parents and grandparents. How many of you remember those stories? What about the names of the people involved? Those of you with your hands up, are you into genealogy? I’ve been working on it for a couple of years now, [...]


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  • Linux Eye-Candy

    June 2, 2008

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    Who loves eye-candy? Don’t be afraid to raise your hand. Right, so, to all you out there thinking Linux is nothing but command line, or at best GUIs like this one from GNOME 1.0 (circa 1997): I’ve got to say, think again. When I started using Linux two years ago, that was what I expected. [...]


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  • Virtualization-Free In-Windows Linux Installation

    April 19, 2008

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    If you’re interested in installing Linux on your hard drive, but you’re a little worried about the prospect of partitioning your drive, there is a way for Windows users to avoid that learning curve. Wubi, which stands for Windows Ubuntu Installer, was designed to make dual-booting as easy as pi pie. The project hasn’t been [...]


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  • Put your Life On a USB Stick [Linux]

    April 7, 2008

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    Last time, I wrote about Live CDs and how you can make your own custom one. Live CDs are great, but let’s face it, sometimes even a CD is just too big to carry around. You male geeks probably have no idea what I’m talking about, but the other ladies can testify that the pockets [...]


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  • Put your Linux Distro on a Live CD

    March 27, 2008

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    An oddity of open source operating systems is the Live CD. It’s not something you’re likely to see coming out of Redmond or Cupertino any time soon, but for a few years now many Linux distros and versions of BSD have given this option. Recently, Live DVDs and Live USB have cropped up as well. [...]


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  • Getting Stuff Done on Linux [Part 2]

    March 18, 2008

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    Last time, we covered Linux applications for creating content. Today we will be covering organizational and web-based programs for Linux. The Series of Tubes* We all use the internet. I’m sure anyone reading this has also heard of Firefox but do you know about all the others? Konqueror is a nice browser based on the [...]


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  • Getting Stuff Done on Linux [Part 1]

    March 15, 2008

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    One thing you hear often about Linux is that there’s no software for it. This is simply not true. There may not be much proprietary software for it, but there is some, and there are plenty of free alternatives to what most offices use every day. This is just a quick overview of some of [...]


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