The Hotwire shell removes the complexities of interactive consoles. We’ll show you how to Hotwire your Linux with this handy text and graphical shell for developers and administrators.

If you are looking for a tool for collaborative text editing across a network, Gobby might be the Gobby lets multiple users edit text documents collaboratively and discuss the changes online.

Similar to Firefox, you can add new features to OpenOffice.org by installing extensions. We’ll take a closer look at a few must-have extensions.

Linux4Afrika collects used hardware in Germany to equip African schools. Linux Magazine editor Markus Feilner went to Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, and other places in Tanzania to hunt down Linux machines.

A new status report on suspend and hibernate discusses the workings of, issues with, and future plans for power-saving modes in Linux.