March 2010 issue of The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine Released

[parnote]

The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is lead by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Andrew Strick, Assistant Editor. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, and some rights are reserved.


In the March 2010 issue:

Flash! PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 Available For Download

Secure Passwords, Made Easy
Game Zone: gbrainy
Behind The Scenes: travisn000
KDE 4: A Brief Look at Configuring Dolphin
KDE 4: Okular Does More Than Just PDFs
KDE 4: KRunner Grows Up
Forum Foibles: Limericks
Ms_meme's nook: PCLOS You Light Up My Screen
Computer Languages A to Z: Icon
Command Line Interface Intro: Part 6
Music Notation Software
Screenshot Showcase
Web Browser Roundup
and much, much more!

This month's cover features Tux the Lucky Leprechaun, from magazine staff member ms_meme.

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[GoustiFruit]

Thanks, I'm reading it right now.

Two quick thoughts...
- KRunner: too bad it doesn't allow autocompletion with [TAB] like you can do in Gnome (Alt+F2), because sometimes I want to type a command with parameters. Example: "firefox -P" to access the profile manager -> you have to type the whole line, where it would be way better to just type the few first characters "fir..." then [TAB] to complete "firefox" then finish with " -P".

- "secure" passwords: I'm using something similar when for all the websites/forums where I register, from a tip a read somewhere else. I selected an easy to remember password, then calculate the md5 sum for the following pattern: password-domainname, then select the 10 first characters (could be the 10 last, or any combination like in your article). So I don't need to remember all my passwords, all I have to remember is a "master" password, but my real password will be different for each domain where I register, and easy for me to find back. For example if my master password was "pclinuxosrules" and I want to register on pclinuxos.com, I'd calculate de md5 sum for the following string: "pclinuxosrules-pclinuxos.com" which is "eeb4b84632078da34ccfe867fa4f3f42" and the select the first 10 characters which gives me "eeb4b84632" as my password to access this site.

[Andy Axnot]

Wow!  I am really, really impressed with the magazine.  Informative, readable, and good looking!

It's amazing what you guys do.  My thanks to parnote and everyone involved.

Those who don't bother to read the magazine should give it a try, but be prepared to be converted to regular readers.   

Andy

[tschommer]

Hardly more to say - absolutely professional, informative and ... fun!

Fantastic job, Paul (and everyone involved) 

Torsten

[coffeetime]

Hardly more to say - absolutely professional, informative and ... fun!

Fantastic job, Paul (and everyone involved) 

+1

[kc1di]

Thanks to all who worked on the March issue it looks and reads great

[TerryH]

Parnote and the PCLOS Magazine Team, thanks for another great read.

A Beta .iso to play with, a great magazine to read.  PCLinuxOS has kept me entertained over the last week.

Thank you very much.