IT managers! Stop spending a fortune on licences and support and switch your office to free software... (Graham Morrison)
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Free as in freedom, libre, open source and all that stuff. Here's the LXF Editor's view... (Paul Hudson)
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We cast our hive mind back 10 years to see just how much Linux Format has changed since it launched in the days of Slackware 7 and Debian Slink. (Paul Hudson)
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Virtual classrooms: the doctor reports on his own experience with two competing technologies. Plus: Minix, and processes demystified. (Chris Brown)
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We dig to the centre of the Linux kernel to uncover why sound can be so... unsound. (Graham Morrison)
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He's the man behind Ubuntu's push towards cloud computing. We asked him what it feels like for Canonical to be innovating for once... (Paul Hudson)
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8 blisteringly fast Linux flavours. Plus: Mythbuntu, Firefox 3.6, KDE 4.4, retro antics with Red Hat 6.0, games, podcasts and over 700 Linux problems solved (Mike Saunders)
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Gramps, Tea, Liferea, Fox, Hop, Font Manager, Iotop, Darktable, FreedroidRPG, Freeforth, Highlight (Nick Veitch)
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There's no need to be scared of the command line - we take the terror away from text mode and reveal awesome power. Plus: managing users and groups. (Andy Channelle)
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Little ol' wine dinker Mo saves cash, brews a tasty beverage and decorates the fruit of his labours with some simple free software. (Mo Awkati)
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Ever wanted a one-stop place to do your package management and the associated housekeeping? We explain how. (Andy Hudson)
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Here's how to lock down your Linux system without the added security hindering you as you go about those all-important day-to-day tasks. (Bob Moss)
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Combine the video power of GStreamer with the graphical cunning of Clutter and you get what is officially known as 'neat stuff'. (Nick Veitch)
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In the second part of our two-part series on coding for the Android platform, we explain how to improve your app and publish it to the world. (Juliet Kemp)
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Ignoring virtualisation because of the overhead? Here's a way that's incredibly quick and doesn't require any special hardware. (Mayank Sharma)
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Should games be a nice comfortable easy ride, or so hard you want to bite off your own bottom lip? We would definitely prefer the former. (Alex Cox)
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Can 'free' compete with Adobe's and Apple's wallet-busting pro photography packages? Andy grabs a horribly expensive camera to find out. (Andy Channelle)
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Mandriva releases a stripped-down instant-on solution, but we're left wondering whether less really is more or actually just... less. (Bob Moss)
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A government-endorsed Linux distro? Yes, and it's actually rather good, despite the lack of English documentation. (Nick Veitch)
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An established composition app reaches a milestone, but competition in this space is hotting up. Can Muse maintain its tempo? (Daniel James)
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And entire Linux-baseed server within a tiny plastic plug, you say? An eager Andy wires himself up to the mains to find out more. (Andy Hudson)
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On test: Damn Small Linux, CrunchBang, Lubuntu, Puppy Linux, Slitaz, Tiny Core, Unity, VectorLinux (Nick Veitch)
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Open source champion Matt Asay bags one of the most important jobs in OSS. Plus: Oracle competes Sun acquisition, KDE gets social network integration, Pandora launches handheld console, the Linux Fund Card. (Andy Channelle)
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Get a distro that looks like Windows but is faster and more customisable. Plus: Sidux 2009-04, BlackPanther OS, Linux netbooks at CES (Susan Linton)
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This new and snappy windowing system could be music to the ears of embedded Linux developers... (Marco Fioretti)
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