Gutsy Gibbon is almost here - but how does the Ubuntu team make sure it's still the world's most popular distro? We investigate... (Mike Saunders)
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Your web server is sick of trundling along at two requests per second. We show you how to set it free... (Paul Hudson)
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Living with free software is often a life of compromise. We look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of open source development, the choices many of us face, and the effects on our favourite operating system - Linux. (Graham Morrison) Click here to read!
He's the Community Development Manager and Community Lead for the vast OpenOffice.org project. But what's he doing at the Libre Graphics Meeting? (Nick Veitch)
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Classic Slackware 12.0, super-fast ZenWalk 2.6, and an Ubuntu 7.10 development snapshot. Plus: 60 pages of Roundups (PDF), GnuCash 2.2, KDE 4 Alpha 2, Paragon NTFS demo, 100 Linux problems solved, SuperTuxKart and much more. (Mike Saunders)
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Wiki on a Stick, Zero Install, Herrie, JSCoverage, Slingshot, Thunder & Lightning, Segatex, Bitswash (Paul Hudson) Click here to read!
A cure for some ills of the modern world (apart from using less fossil fuels) would be better organisation. Andy is a man with time on his hands... (Andy Channelle) Click here to read!
Part 2: Want to spend more time at the command line? We introduce grep and pipe, plus other must-have power user commands. (Rachel Probert)
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Fed up with misleading tags and silly filenames? Don't put up with problems; code them out of existence with some Python magic. (Nick Veitch)
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Grab your snorkel and flippers, and join us in an exploration of the murky underwater world of filters and pipelines. (Chris Brown)
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Just because you're not paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not following you. Paul makes a government-strength file encrypter, while he still can... (Paul Hudson)
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Need the latest and greatest software that's not in portage yet? We show Gentoo Linux users how to track down an ebuild or write your own. (Neil Bothwick)
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Desktop search was all the rage twelve months ago. We wonder whether Google may be a little late to the party as far as Linux is concerned. (Graham Morrison) Click here to read!
With Apple's switch from PowerPC to Intel CPUs, the future looked a bit dim for Yellow Dog. But it may find an unlikely saviour in Sony's PlayStation 3... (Graham Morrison)
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Something must be fairly and squarely targeted at the enterprise market when Graham manages to shoehorn the word 'leverage' into a review. (Graham Morrison)
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It's not quite the $100 laptop, but this PC proves that the concept is getting closer every day. We investigate an option that's too good to be true, surely? (Nick Veitch)
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Need to write to Windows XP or Vista hard disks from Linux? We test the only potential solution if you need NTFS compression support. (Neil Bothwick)
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Rated: Chatzilla, Irssi, Konversation, Kopete, KVirc, Opera, Pidgin, XChat (Chris Howells)
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Desktop vendor heads closer to enterprise stack-dom with Scalix purchase. Plus: Oracle 11g a Linux exclusive? Pyro web desktop, IBM opens up more patents, Democracy Player becomes Miro, GPL 3 finally arrives (Andy Channelle)
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As the popularity of desktop Linux grows, distributions such as OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva compete on features. Which will you be using in 2008? Plus: Webconverger, Yoper Linux 3.0, exotic distros (Ladislav Bodnar)
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Whether you believe Charles Bourseul, Philipp Reis, Antonio Meucci or Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, the controversy rings a bell with Nick... (Nick Veitch) Click here to read!
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