Issue 114 (January 2009) - Put Linux in your pocket
Speed and portability combine - take your whole Linux desktop anywhere on a USB stick
Ubuntu megapack: exclusive enhanced version with 600 extra packages (KDE, Xfce, and more) on our DVD. Plus 64-bit and Alternate versions!
Banish your daemons - speed up your box by removing unneeded background processes
The state of free software as told by RMS, Michael Meeks and Greg Kroah-Hartman
Tutorials on Scribus, Gimp, Seq24, running a web server, Python games programming and advanced Bash
Features
Linux in your pocket
Install Linux on a USB flash drive and take your own system wherever you go - it's easy! (Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Banish your daemons
They're quiet, unobtrusive and running in the background on your machine. We show you how to remove unneeded daemons and speed up your boot time.
(Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Free the DJ
We put our vinyl collection back into the attic and head to the dancefloor with a laptop and some free software goodness. (Daniel James) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
The state of free software
Twenty years on from the birth of GNU, we pick the brains of three wise men and find the path to freedom. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Dr Brown's Administeria
Predict hard disk failure with Smart, understand fstab, and secure your data with ecryptfs.
(Chris Brown) Click here to read!
Interview: Ross Anderson
We know there are bad guys trying to get on your box and good guys trying to stop them. But who watches the watchmen? This man. (Daniel James) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coverdisc
Ubuntu 8.10 megapack
Exclusive LXF edition with 600 extra packages (KDE, Xfce, development tools and more). Plus: 64-bit and Alternate ISOs, Fedora 9 Live, home accounting apps...
(Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
HotPicks
Ananta Gazelle, Apache SQL Analyser, FastDup, Fotoxx, Gambas, Gambatte, Joe, PhpMyAdmin, UCK, Vacuum Magic. (Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Tutorials
First steps
Get chatting online with the Pidgin instant messenger, and make your own greeting cards using Scribus.
(Andy Channelle) Click here to read!
Gimp: Speedy colour fixes
Smile big and show your colours as we guide you through quick colour fixes for your photos. (Michael J Hammel) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Seq24: Play with MIDI sounds
If you've listened to the Clockwork Orange soundtrack and thought "I can do that", you're absolutely right - we show you how.
(Daniel James) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Apache: Set up a web server
Part 1: A new tutorial series for everyone who likes fiddling with wires and connections. That's all of us then! (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coding: Tower of Hanoi
Part 3: In the final installment in this series, we pull together all the coding tricks we've learnt for a reader-suggested project. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Bash: Do more with the shell
If you're a power Linux user, you probably spend a lot of time in the Bash shell. We show you how to make your command-line life easier and more efficient with custom Bash autocompletion. (Juliet Kemp) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Reviews
Mandriva 2009
We ask whether this 10-year-old distro does enough to survive for another decade. (Graham Morrison) Click here to read!
Ubuntu 8.10
Canonical continues to create cute, contrived alliterative names for its distro releases. We examine whether the latest version is truly Intrepid.
(Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Boston 2300GP
Closet folk-lite fan Graham was never a fan of The Corrs until they started to come in the 4xQuad variety. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
OpenOffice.org 3.0
It's a big new launch, but do the features match up? More to the point, is it still deathly slow? (Simon Pickstock) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Gimp 2.6
Graham very much doubts that version 3 of this flagship free software application will be released during the lifetime of his pet turtle.
(Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Yellow Dog distribution and PS3 Linux safe after buyout. Also: 2009 Linux shipments may outstrip Windows; Amazon brings OLPC donation scheme to Europe; supercomputer upgrade for CSC; Yoggie firewalls; BitDefender gets a GUI.
(Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
