Editor’s Note: This post was written by guest author Pieter De Decker, who is also the developer of the free USBsyncer and iPodCALsync! Feel free to read past articles that Pieter has written.

Even though Linux is more user-friendly than it ever was, it has yet to catch on with the average Joe. Having used Ubuntu Linux for over a year, I'm ...

We gave gPodder a quick mention a while ago, but it has improved greatly over the last couple of months. Here's a quick rundown of gPodder's most important features.

Channel browser
You can quickly navigate through your channels by using the channel browser on the left side of the screen. When new episodes are available for download, the number of new ...

There are lots of TV listing fetchers out there, but OnTV is certainly different. OnTV is not a stand-alone program. It's a GNOME applet, which means that you can put it anywhere on your GNOME panels. When setting up OnTV, you can choose which channels you want to be shown. This little applet supports over 25 countries including the USA, the United Kingdom and most countries in Western Europe. OnTV also allows ...

One of the major disadvantages of Linux is that it won't let you play most Windows games. On the other hand, lots of great free Linux games have been developed over the last couple of years. Here's a list of some entertaining Linux games I've come across so far. And remember, you can enlarge any of these screenshots by clicking on them.

Nexuiz
Nexuiz is definitely not my cup ...

Being the owner of an iPod Nano, I was kept from switching to Linux for a long time because there's no Linux version of iTunes. Then I discovered that the Linux community has worked hard on some good alternatives, and today we're going to take a look at some of them.

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—Banshee—

 
Banshee is a music player for the GNOME desktop. Although it looks good, the ...

Many Linux applications don't have to be installed manually because most distributions have implemented a package management system to make it easier for you to install software. But that's not always the case. Some programs only offer tarball packages for download, which have to be compiled from source. We'll show you how to do that.

We're going to compile and install Audacity (audio editing software) to show you how to install tarballs. Because I wrote ...