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Linux users share ideas and ask for help.. This week, a PKZip Problem; a reader explains his problem with configuring Ubuntu to send and receive e-mail; another Linux user writes in to express his thanks and offer some resources; and Jack shares a handy utility for counting characters, words and lines.

There's no doubt that some people have become a Linux user after seeing a video of Compiz Fusion in action on YouTube or wherever.

However, like some of us, there will come a time that these new-to-Linux users will get bored with those extra eye-candies and will realize that they don't really need them.

Here are some suggestions that could help.

openSUSE provides everything today’s Linux user needs for home computing and computing-on-the-go. This product includes a Linux operating system plus dozens of essential integrated tools that showcase the latest that open source has to offer.

Every good Linux user knows that if you want to drop from X down into a text-based virtual terminal, you can press control-alt-F1 , and control-alt-F7 returns you to the graphical mode.

"MPoD offers some interesting choices when it comes to filtering music. You can display only full albums, excluding artists that appear on compilation albums, or use the folder structure as a display to keep ...

Linux.com: "The iPhone and iPod Touch haven taken the mobile market by storm. Apple's AppStore is full of interesting applications that take advantage of the two devices's capabilities.

But what's in there for Linux users? Sadly, GTKPod and Amarok cannot yet transfer files on an iPhone with the 2.x firmware upgrade, but there are other interesting ways your iPhone can interact with your Linux desktop and even servers."

If you're a Linux user you have no doubt heard of GNOME and KDE. These popular desktop environments are really the pinnacle of a deep iceberg of technology with the X-Windows graphical interface underpinning it all.

Here are a couple of ways to tame X, kicking off a journey of unlimited ability to change the Linux look-and-feel.

The iPhone and iPod Touch haven taken the mobile market by storm. Apple's AppStore is full of interesting applications that take advantage of the two devices's capabilities.

But what's in there for Linux users? Sadly, GTKPod and Amarok cannot yet transfer files on an iPhone with the 2.x firmware upgrade, but there are other interesting ways your iP

Linux Journal: "Here in the Linux Journal offices, we sometimes get phone calls that give us a laugh. People call us because they either want to "talk to the Linux company" or buy some stock in "Linux"..."