I was reading the latest issue of TuxMagazine and the column done by Kevin Shockey where he talks about classifiying the different type of Linux users and the motives to use Linux.

Also he goes ons about the semantics of free software and freedom (libre) vs gratis. And how spanish make more sense to speak than the broken english language :D

However he brings some important topics such as the barrier of entrance for non developers. We all know that free software is all about the source being open, but really if you can´t understand code, there is really not much you can do. Actually there is but is not practical to an extend.

For example, if users need to learn C++ to modify a KDE app, it becomes way to difficult to make a difference on the behavior of the application for himself.

Somehow even on volunteers that collaborate with documentation or support for users are separated and missconected with the actual develoopers. This brings a good void between non-devleopers but volunteers, end-users, and finally developers.

Yes bugzilla has breach this a bit, but it there is nothing wrong to wonder what else there is to do. maybe talk about social networking could improve the communication, mentoring, and google summer of code might be some efforts in this direction. The interesting thing is if other smaller organizations or even better... individuals take the lead and make efforts to either let users know the people behind the code and bring a more humane way of looking at software.

Wonder what you guys think about bringing this developers to speak out on your magazine. With the risk of becoming more technical is always interesting to find what this developers are currently working on what what are their priority list.

xvidcap spring to mind, but here 2 good reviews on the topic.
It seems flash creation is limited to demorecorder.
Anybody with experience on the topic?

What to use to capture screen/ make flash animation:
http://osvids.com/blog/2006/07/09/the-not-so-terrible-state-of-linux-screen-capture/

Creating appealing video software demos in Linux
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/2121233&tid=39

Amarok & Kplayer! Yay!

I hope that there's also something about streaming music to other computers (in a home network setup) from a dedicated box. Kind of like Squeezebox does. But easier to set up...

Video editing... hooray! :)

Looking forward to it.

I try twice already, seems like the file is broken on the server.

Hi!

I have tried to download the July edition of Tux five times (four times using Firefox and once with IE) and each time the download stops after approx 500 Kb.

Is this a problem at your end?

Regards,
Peter