Articles by Graham Morrison

• Issue 178 - Feature: Renaissance man - We meet Robert ‘r0ml’ Lefkowitz, a man who crams 2,000 years of open source philosophy into 3,000 words.
  
• Issue 178 - Review: Sir, You Are Being Hunted - Graham Morrison gets lost in the crowdfunded game of stealth, menacing robots and constant updates.
  
• Issue 177 - Feature: Interview: Google Guru - We talk to Chris DiBona
  
• Issue 177 - Feature: Inside Project Sputnik: Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook - Graham Morrison tests the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition and speaks to the brains behind the project
  
• Issue 176 - Review:  Devolo LiveCam - The powerline ethernet webcam promises Linux support.
  
• Issue 175 - Coding Academy: Build a mixer with Qt and C++ - Create your very own audio mixing software quickly and easily using the magic of Qt.
  
• Issue 175 - Book review: Android Fully Loaded and DIY Instruments for Amateur Space - One's good and one's bad, but you'll have to read on to find out which is which.
  
• Issue 175 - Review: LightZone 4 - Free at last!
  
• Issue 174 - Book review: Make: Analog Synthesizers and Arduino Projects for Dummies - Two books get the LXF treatment
  
• Issue 174 - Review: Prison Architect - It's like SimCity, but it works and it's in a prison.
  
• Issue 173 - Interview: Eben Upton - LXF chats with the father of the Raspberry Pi
  
• Issue 173 - Review: Mageia 3 - One of the youngest popular distros turns three.
  
• Issue 173 - Tutorial: Raspbian - Install this distro on your Raspberri Pi
  
• Issue 172 - Book review: Head First jQuery and Blender Master Class - Two books get the LXF treatment
  
• Issue 172 - Review: Ubuntu 13.04 - Ubuntu has received quite a bit of criticism, but does the latest version deserve it?
  
• Issue 172 - Tutorial: Ardour 3 - Become the next music sensation with our handy guide.
  
• Issue 171 - Feature: Inside Ardour 3 - Discover the best Linux audio application.
  
• Issue 170 - Feature: XBMC Uncovered - After many years keeping a MythTV configuration running, we think we've found a better solution.
  
• Issue 169 - Interview: Jacob Kaplan-Moss - We chat to the benevolent dictator behind Django.
  
• Issue 169 - Book review: Books - Programming Your Home and The Book of Gimp
  
• Issue 169 - Review: CuBox - A tiny black box that contains an entire Linux ecosystem.
  
• Issue 169 - Tutorial: RPi TV - Use TVHeadend and a Raspberry Pi to build your own smart TV.
  
• Issue 168 - Book review: Linux Essentials and Head First Mobile Web - The Linux Format team relax with a bit of computery reading matter.
  
• Issue 168 - Review: FRITXBox - This ADSL modem and wireless router gets the LXF treatment.
  
• Issue 166 - Feature: What's going on? - We talk to some of the brightest stars in Linux to see what they think is going to happen in the coming year.
  
• Issue 166 - Book review: Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing and The Artists Guide to Gimp - Team LXF take a look
  
• Issue 166 - Review: Raspberry Pi - We take a look at the latest version of the Pi.
  
• Issue 165 - Coding Academy: Back to basics: Using an IDE - Because it's never too soon to start using a development environment.
  
• Issue 165 - Interview: Monty Widenius - We meet the man who put the M in LAMP
  
• Issue 165 - Book review: Arduino Cookbook and Raspberry Pi User Guide - We take a look at some hot-off-the-press books
  
• Issue 165 - Review: Ubuntu 12.10 - The Quantal Quetzal under the microscope.
  
• Issue 164 - Coding Academy: Back to basics: Files and modules - Expand your library of functions and grab external data.
  
• Issue 164 - Review: OpenSUSE 12.2 - The latest green version of KDE comes under the LXF microscope.
  
• Issue 163 - Feature: Thanks Linus - We meet the man that started it all: Linus Torvalds
  
• Issue 163 - Review: AV Linux 6 - Has this audio and visual distribution saved the best 'til last?
  
• Issue 162 - Feature:  Skype - Graham Morrision swipes those flying pigs from the sky whilst playing with the latest release from Microsoft.
  
• Issue 161 - Feature: Upgrade today - Team LXF has have spend the month testing motherboards, CPUs, SSDs and graphics cards so you don't have to. Here are the results.
  
• Issue 161 - Review: Fit PC 3 Pro - An almost-silent mini PC with the same specifications as the MintBox.
  
• Issue 161 - Review: QTractor - An audio/MIDI sequencer with a bit of finess.
  
• Issue 161 - What on Earth: OpenStack - Send your computing to the clouds.
  
• Issue 160 - Coding Academy: Code Concepts: Avoiding Mistakes - After tolerating dozens of bug reports about his own code, Graham Morrison shares what to do to avoid it.
  
• Issue 160 - Review: Pianoteq 4 standard - A commercial piano synthesizer that turns your Linux box into a grand piano.
  
• Issue 160 - Review: Rosegarden - A midi and audio sequencer that can be used to score, compose and generate music.
  
• Issue 160 - Tutorial: Rasperry Pi - In our second RPi tutorial, we go through package management, emulation and network attached storage.
  
• Issue 159 - Feature: MythTV 0.25 - Graham Morrison selflessly suffers a nightmare installation and hours of daytime TV so that you don't have to.
  
• Issue 159 - Tutorial: Presentations - Graham Morrison distills some of the wisdom gleaned from a day on Damian Conway's presentation course.
  
• Issue 158 - Coding Academy: Code Concepts: Loops - The best coder is the laziest coder. Loops save you time and effort, so it's essential to understand them.
  
• Issue 158 - Review: Audacity - Audio editing the free software way. Now with added VAMP and other acronyms.
  
• Issue 158 - Review: Renoise 2.8 - Discover what happens when you bolt an audio workstation onto the soul of a soundtracker.
  
• Issue 157 - Coding Academy: Concepts: Numbers - Learn how your computer deals with digits
  
• Issue 157 - Review: VLC 2.0 - It's TuxRadar's favourate media player, but how does the latest release stack up.
  
• Issue 157 - Review: CrossOver 11 - We check out this new product that combines CrossOver Office and CrossOver Games into one package.
  
• Issue 156 - Feature: Linux Speedups - Discover 13 ways to speedup your Linux box
  
• Issue 156 - Review: Devolo dLan 500 - We look at an upgrade to the popular AV-compatible devices for transferring network data across mains power
  
• Issue 155 - Feature: 8 things we`d change about Linux audio - We refrain from filling the whole magazine with complaints about sound, restricting ourselves to asa few PulseAudio gripes.
  
• Issue 155 - Interview: Interview: Damian Conway - Five years after our last interview, we corner Perl`s `uncle` and programming mastermind to ask the rhetorical question, `Where is version 6?`.
  
• Issue 155 - Tutorial: Bristol: Build a synth studio - Save a fortune in vintage hardware by going virtual with the best synth suite for Linux.
  
• Issue 155 - Review: Scribus 1.4.0 - After four years of betas and release candidates, we finally get virtual ink on our hands.
  
• Issue 155 - Review: Parallels Workstation 6.0 - We look at a low-cost altenative to VMWarew Workstation, but can it beat the free VirtualBox suite?
  
• Issue 154 - Interview: Interview: Brian Fitzpatrick - Google`s information freedom advocate tells us why it should be easy to get your data out.
  
• Issue 154 - Coding Academy: Code Concepts: Recursion - Jump down the ultimate rabbit hole of programming ideas and land on your own head.
  
• Issue 154 - Review: Multiwinia - It`s multiplayer Darwinia and it`s finally out on Linux.
  
• Issue 154 - Review: Linutop 4.0 - We look at a small, silent and tough Linux box that attaches to the back of a screen and locks-down with just a couple of clicks.
  
• Issue 153 - Feature: We are Free Geek - Graham Morrison visits a non-profit hardware emporium in Portland, Oregon, that recycles old hardware, gives people new skills and installs Linux on thousands of machines.
  
• Issue 153 - Feature: 12 reasons to love KDE - Graham Morrison rains positivity onto the world's most configurable desktop and picks out some of its best functions and applications
  
• Issue 153 - Feature: Interview: Arthur Richards - The Wikipedia software engineer discusses money, banner campaigns and his passion for promoting free knowledge.
  
• Issue 153 - Review: Blender 2.6 - The 3D content creations suite gets a major update. The unusually animated Graham Morrison discovers if that make sit any less tricky to use
  
• Issue 153 - Review: Oracle Solaris 11 - Graham Morrison wonders whether this is the end or a new beginning for an OS that once threatened Linux
  
• Issue 153 - Book review: Beginning Blender - Graham Morrison takes a look at a masterclass in the un-masterable
  
• Issue 152 - Review: Trauma - Graham is feeling in need of a little therapy himself after delving into a surreal world without unicorns.
  
• Issue 152 - Review: X-Arcade Tankstick - We take the fight back to the aliens with a control panel from the Starship Enterprise.
  
• Issue 152 - Review: PulseAudio 1.0 - Faced with the Gom Jabbar, Graham looks at the new, great hope for Linux audio and discovers that it has finally come of age.
  
• Issue 152 - Interview: Ariel Waldman - Space exploration isn't just confined to NASA - you can make a contribution too. We talk to the founder of Science Hack Day about how citizen science is making great technological leaps.
  
• Issue 152 - Tutorial: Build a video arcade machine - Graham makes up for being poor in the eighties by running Ghosts'n Goblins on permanent Freeplay.
  
• Issue 151 - Review: Qt Creator 2.3 - A major IDE update gives Graham one less excuse for resurrecting KAlbum.
  
• Issue 151 - Tutorial: Arch: Master the User Repository - We tackle one of the best aspects of the ever popular Arch distribution and show you how to install the latest cutting-edge software.
  
• Issue 150 - Book review: Head First WordPress - Graham runs out of technical excuses for his lack of blog updates.
  
• Issue 150 - Interview: Rob Pike - We catch some programming wisdom from one of Google's most distinguished engineers.
  
• Issue 150 - Coding Academy: An introduction to Google Go - We go all googly eyed for Rob Pike's powerful concurrent programming language.
  
• Issue 150 - Coding Academy: Back to basics: functions and objects - In the second of our newbie's guides, we tackle the fundamental building blocks behind any application.
  
• Issue 149 - Review: Sabayon 6 - Graham thinks he can still manage to make room in his distribution pile for a tasty egg-based Italian dessert.
  
• Issue 149 - Review: Thunderbird 5 - We pull ourselves away from webmail to try the latest native release of Mozilla's email client.
  
• Issue 149 - Coding Academy: Concepts: Lists - We launch a mini-series for newbies looking at some of the fundamental ideas behind programming logic.
  
• Issue 148 - Review: MeeGo 1.2 Netbook Edition - It might have had a troubled year, but we find plenty of life left in this diminutive distribution that's capable of playing movies in your car.
  
• Issue 148 - Review: Popcorn Hour A-210 - Graham replaces his MythTV box with a small, silent Linux machine that works without sacrificing small animals.
  
• Issue 148 - Interview: Sarah Novotny - The co-founder of Blue Gecko and a pioneer of MySQL chats over Skype while she takes a taxi into work.
  
• Issue 148 - What on Earth: Bitcoin - Here's why you're unlikely to make a fortune generating your own stash of open source currency...
  
• Issue 147 - Review: Mageia 1.0 - The community fork of Mandriva still has the magic - even if we're not quite sure how to pronounce the name...
  
• Issue 147 - Review: FritzBox 7390 ADSL2+ Modem - Graham replaces a cupboard full of Linux boxes with a single red and silver piece of plastic.
  
• Issue 146 - Review: MIMO Mini-Monster Touch Monitor and GuiPlug - We look at a pair of Linux devices that finally bring touch control within your reach.
  
• Issue 145 - Review: Qnap 219P+ vs Synology DS211+ - We pit two of the latest and most powerful network-attached storage boxes against each other in a fight to the death.
  
• Issue 145 - Book review: Cooking for Geeks - After four years living in France, Graham finally learns how to cook.
  
• Issue 145 - Tutorial: DreamPlug: A box of tricks - Create a wireless access point, a NAS box and music streaming player from a box no bigger than your Havana cigar case.
  
• Issue 144 - Book review: Being Geek - Graham finds solace for his career in the words of an alpha geek.
  
• Issue 144 - Tutorial: iOS: Linux and Apple devices - Graham takes a bite of the Apple and prepares himself as he gets a 'borrowed' iPhone talking to Ubuntu.
  
• Issue 143 - Tutorial: KDevelop: Build an application - We combine two of the hottest releases from the world of KDE, along with Qt, to build a shiny new text-editing Frankenapp.
  
• Issue 142 - Review: VirtualBox 4.0 - Graham puts the latest release from Oracle through his own special Voigt-Kampf test. Here are his results.
  
• Issue 142 - Feature: Master KDE's Plasma desktop - Now that KDE's ambitious Plasma Desktop is ready for prime-time usage, we uncover its best features.
  
• Issue 141 - Review: Devolo 200 AV Wireless N Starter Kit - Graham finally manages to create a wireless hotspot in his loft.
  
• Issue 141 - Review: Oxygen 12 XML Editor - Technical documentation can often be more a case of technical than of documentation...
  
• Issue 140 - Review: Arduino Uno - We look at a reboot of the popular hacker's platform.
  
• Issue 140 - Review: Renoise 2.6 - We take a look at what might be the most spontaneous and comprehensive music production tool available for Linux.
  
• Issue 140 - Feature: Linux inside - We unearth the secret places and devices where Linux is quietly dominating the market.
  
• Issue 140 - Tutorial: Qt: Geolocate in Qt Quick - We unveil the power of declarative programming to build an RSS reader with images and maps in less than 100 lines of code.
  
• Issue 140 - Tutorial: Desktop: Save screen space - We prove that tiling window managers can be a genuine advantage when it comes to hardware and productivity.
  
• Issue 139 - Review: Nokia Qt 4.7 - Graham unravels the latest release of the framework behind KDE.
  
• Issue 139 - Review: Devolo AVplus 200 Freesat - Graham upgrades his streaming TV capabilities with the latest Linux-compatible powerline devices from Devolo.
  
• Issue 139 - Feature: Linux in education - You don't have to accept the status quo in your child's schooling. From saving money with servers to opening standards in training, there are people who have made free software work and pay in education.
  
• Issue 139 - Tutorial: Coding: Regular Expressions - They're not that bad. No, really. Let us shine some light on one of the last dark arts from the days of the command line.
  
• Issue 138 - Review: Tiny Core Linux 3.1 - Graham enters his minimalist stage as he tries out a Linux distribution that almost fits onto his watch.
  
• Issue 138 - Feature: Package management problems solved - We fix the most common problems with the three most common package managers.
  
• Issue 138 - What on Earth: Ksplice - Forget ethyl methanesulfonate as an alkalizing agent. We show how kernel recombination works with a rather neat piece of software.
  
• Issue 137 - Review: HornetTek Janus WLAN Adapter - Graham becomes increasingly reclusive with a wireless receiver that lets him work 1,000m from LXF Towers.
  
• Issue 137 - Feature: The ultimate desktop toolkit - Don't let your photo, music and video files get any more chaotic. We cover the cream of Linux software to help you master your media.
  
• Issue 136 - Review: Synology DS110+ - A single-bay version of our favourite wired storage box makes Graham a happy man.
  
• Issue 136 - Book review: Smart Home Automation - Graham has been assimilated by his washing machine.
  
• Issue 136 - Feature: Networking made easy - Linux is the best operating system in the world for network troubleshooting - we put it to work.
  
• Issue 136 - Feature:  Distro challenge - As keen listeners to the TuxRadar podcast will know, we were challenged to use a Linux distribution for a fortnight from outside of the Distrowatch top 100. Here's what we chose...
  
• Issue 135 - Feature: Firefox: the next chapter - The darling of free software is facing a threat, and it's from a former ally.
  
• Issue 135 - Review:  Qt Creator 2.0 - A month after the release of KDevelop 4, we review its arch-nemesis.
  
• Issue 134 - Review: KDevelop 4 - Completely rewritten for KDE 4, KDevelop is back and ready to knock Qt Creator right off its perch.
  
• Issue 134 - Review: MythTV 0.23 - Undeterred by previous battles with the ungainly MythTV, we step once more into the breach to dist-upgrade our living rooms.
  
• Issue 134 - Review: MeeGo 1.0 - We wonder whether MeeGo - the product of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo - will be the sum of its parts, or a division by zero.
  
• Issue 134 - Book review: ModSecurity Handbook - Graham is amazed to discover that he can find Apache interesting.
  
• Issue 134 - Feature: Linux vs iPhone - We look at three Linux-based smartphones that beat Apple at its own game.
  
• Issue 133 - Review: TeamViewer 5 - We discover that VNC is by no means the only remote desktop tool on the Linux platform that's worth considering.
  
• Issue 133 - Book review: Networking Bible - Graham is disappointed to find mistakes in the Bible.
  
• Issue 133 - Feature: Perfect multi-booting - There's an art to running more than one operating system on your machine, and we can help you to become a grand master.
  
• Issue 132 - Book review: Beautiful Testing - After 329 pages we become desensitised to beauty.
  
• Issue 132 - Feature: Try any distro! - We strap ourselves into a virtual headset to test the latest and greatest distro releases without harming an innocent Fedora installation.
  
• Issue 131 - Review: OpenOffice.org 3.2 - We find gold in what first appears to be another humdrum release of free software's premier office suite.
  
• Issue 131 - Book review: Crafting Digital Media - Graham unearths the docs for our Arts and Crafts Movement.
  
• Issue 131 - Book review: Designing Social Interfaces - We read about computer-based alternatives to The Pub.
  
• Issue 131 - Feature: Linux exposed - Have you ever wondered what exactly DCOP is, or where your drivers are hidden? Join us on a journey to the centre of your Linux box and discover the answers.
  
• Issue 130 - Feature: Linux Works - IT managers! Stop spending a fortune on licences and support and switch your office to free software...
  
• Issue 130 - Feature:  Linux audio uncovered - We dig to the centre of the Linux kernel to uncover why sound can be so... unsound.
  
• Issue 129 - Review: Linux Mint 8 - We take Helena, the latest version of this popular green Ubuntu-based distro for a spin. The verdict? She's a breath of fresh air.
  
• Issue 129 - Review:  Loomer Aspect - Graham finally finds something productive to do in his lunch hour - twisting audio inputs and outputs into timbre and rhythm.
  
• Issue 129 - Book review: Masterminds of Programming - Graham is in awe of the programmers interviewed...
  
• Issue 129 - Feature: The future of Linux - Our soothsayer casts the runes of Linux fate and finds a lot to get excited about in the months to come...
  
• Issue 128 - Review: MythTV 0.22 - After 18 months' respite from the infernal configuration of this open source PVR, Graham dives back into the lake of fire.
  
• Issue 128 - Feature: Get started with Linux - Our complete and easy guide to get you from the disc drive to the desktop as quickly as possible.
  
• Issue 128 - Feature:  Nine projects in 90 minutes - We prove just how amazingly adaptable Linux can be by delving into nine projects that should take no longer than the kettle does to boil.
  
• Issue 127 - Review: SheevaPlug Dev Kit - We look at a complete Linux machine housed in what appears to be a PSU...
  
• Issue 127 - Review: FritzBox 7270 - Is it a modem, a PBX, a NAS device or a Wireless N router? We discover a Linux-based jack of all trades.
  
• Issue 127 - Feature: Linux on the move - We uncover the very latest advances in portable Linux, how things are changing and what we can expect to see next.
  
• Issue 126 - Review: Ubuntu 9.10 - Armed with eucalyptus leaves, we head into the bush to find that rarest of creatures - the exciting Ubuntu release.
  
• Issue 126 - Review: Qnap TS-239 Pro - Here's a NAS box that looks like it's going to put up a good challenge to the award-winning Synology DS209+II.
  
• Issue 126 - Roundup: KDE distributions - Explore the kream of Linux distributions that don't treat the Kool Desktop Environment as a second-class citizen.
  
• Issue 126 - Book review: Google Speaks - Graham listens hard, but hears only deafening silence.
  
• Issue 126 - Feature: Ultimate eye candy - We take the fight for the best-looking desktop to Windows 7 and Mac OS X. Have at you!
  
• Issue 125 - Review: Nero 4.0 - Graham blows the dust off his disc burner to give the latest commercial tool a spin, and it's music to his ears.
  
• Issue 125 - Review: YDL on a Stick - Graham takes five minutes out from raining destruction on the Helghast in Killzone 2 to try out the latest Yellow Dog on his PlayStation 3.
  
• Issue 125 - Feature: Generate choons with Chuck - Tired of the same old music in the charts, we create our own music from a series of pseudo random numbers.
  
• Issue 124 - Review: Icy Box NAS 4220-B - Yes, it's Yet Another NAS with embedded Linux...
  
• Issue 124 - Review: NTS1-GPS - Time may not wait for men, but it certainly lags when transmitted across the internet. We find a more accurate way to stay current.
  
• Issue 124 - Book review: Python for Unix and Linux System Administration - It might win an award for the Python book with the longest title in the world.
  
• Issue 124 - Feature: Drop and roll: immersive gaming on Linux - Grab the yellow key and join us as we explore the latest in interactive gaming.
  
• Issue 124 - Tutorial: UPnP: Stream your media - Stream music, videos and photos from your Linux machine to almost any other box with a DLNA logo...
  
• Issue 123 - Review: Synergy DS209+II - Acronyms at the ready: we delve into a network storage box with more features than Mount Rushmore.
  
• Issue 123 - Feature: 7 cool Linux projects - As the raindrops slide down the window pane, we turn to our Linux machines for entertainment. Dear readers, this is what happened...
  
• Issue 122 - Review: Pianoteq 3.0 - Two years after its first incarnation waltzed gracefully on to the market, Graham cracks his knuckles and takes version 3 for a test ride...
  
• Issue 122 - Feature: Linux vs Windows 7 - There's so much hype surrounding the next version of Windows, but Linux already has it beaten. Find out why.
  
• Issue 121 - Review: EnergyXT 2.5 - Modular music composition is just another excuse for serial sonic sorcerer Graham to have several tracks on the go at once.
  
• Issue 121 - Book review: Blender for Dummies - We initially thought this title was an insult
  
• Issue 121 - Interview: Michael Simms - He heads both Linux Game Publishing and Tux Games. That means you have him to thank for bringing X3, Cold War and more to your desktop.
  
• Issue 120 - Review: Yoggie Open Firewall - Here's a device that started out as a firewall and ends up as a powerful embedded development platform.
  
• Issue 120 - Book review: Ubuntu Linux Desktop - Graham has always preferred pictures to words.
  
• Issue 120 - Feature: Ubuntu turns 10 - To celebrate the 10th release of the Ubuntu distribution, we examine the whys and wherefores of its success and legacy.
  
• Issue 119 - Review: Qt Creator - The first release of the Qt toolkit under the auspices of Nokia has some excellen bonus features.
  
• Issue 119 - Book review: Beginning OpenOffice 3 - Graham looks at the first book by our own Andy Channelle.
  
• Issue 119 - Feature: Work smarter with Linux - We take a tour of the best, most innovative and gosh-darned coolest ways to get more productive on your Linux desktop.
  
• Issue 118 - Review: Debian 5 - Graham has always thought Debian sounds best when pronounced with a French accent - 'de bien'.
  
• Issue 118 - Review: Asgard Shuttle X27 - We revisit North mythology to discover whether expensive low-power computing deserves a place in Valhalla.
  
• Issue 118 - Feature: Find the perfect distro - Power users, newbies, hackers, gamers - whatever your computing needs, there's a Linux distro for everyone. Find out what's best for you.
  
• Issue 117 - Review: Emprex ME-1 - Only a month after the Popcorn Hour stole our hearts, we give a new media playback box the once over.
  
• Issue 117 - Interview:  Benoit Schillings - Chief Technologist of Qt at Nokia, amateur astronomer, KDE hacker and former BeOS developer - what a guy!
  
• Issue 117 - Feature: Inside Xorg.conf - Most distributions configure your graphics card and display automatically, but xorg.conf is still well worth fidding with.
  
• Issue 117 - Feature:  Build the ultimate MythTV box - Graham goes on a shopping spree to build a MythTV box without destroying our meagre budget for the month.
  
• Issue 116 - Review: Popcorn Hour A-110 - Graham sites down in front of his television with some corn kernels and sixty minutes to spare.
  
• Issue 116 - Feature: Get the best from KDE 4 - The koolest desktop in the world has found its stride. We unlock our 26 tips and insights for getting the most from KDE.
  
• Issue 116 - Feature: Spice up your LUG - Sick of occasional mailings and bi-monthly visits to the pub? Then regenerate your tired old Linux User Group with these golden rules.
  
• Issue 115 - Review: LightZone 3.6 - Graham unlocks the potential of his dimly lit photo collection.
  
• Issue 115 - Review: Penumbra: Requiem - We return to the world of shadow for one last game.
  
• Issue 115 - Review: Shuttle K450V - The second budget PC to come from Shuttle with Linux pre-installed.
  
• Issue 115 - Book review: Second Life: In-World Travel Guide - Step into a world where the word primitive isn't an insult.
  
• Issue 115 - Feature: Mobile device synchronisation - Getting your mobile phones and PDAs to cooperate with Linux has always been something of a dark art. We kindle a light to help you avoid that syncing feeling.
  
• Issue 115 - Feature: Top 10 Linux security tips - Lock down your machine with this checklist for beefing up your system's security. Script kiddies, begone!
  
• Issue 114 - Review:  Mandriva 2009 - We ask whether this 10-year-old distro does enough to survive for another decade.
  
• Issue 114 - Review: Boston 2300GP - Closet folk-lite fan Graham was never a fan of The Corrs until they started to come in the 4xQuad variety.
  
• Issue 114 - Review: 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.
  
• Issue 114 - Book review: Essential Linux Device Drivers - Graham learns to write a Linux driver from bits of felt and old string.
  
• Issue 114 - Feature: 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.
  
• Issue 114 - Feature: 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.
  
• Issue 113 - Review: US Robotics 56k USB modem - Even in the age of broadband, an old-fashioned plug-and-play modem is still a useful gadget.
  
• Issue 113 - Review: Canon MP610 - Graham finds that putting ink on paper has come a long way since his parents bought him an Okimate.
  
• Issue 113 - Interview: Jeremy Allison - He's known to many as 'that Samba bloke', but there's a lot more to Mr Allison.
  
• Issue 113 - Feature:  Readers' round table - We venture outside LXF Towers to meet a few readers and discuss life, Linux and the lack of cheap parking in Bath.
  
• Issue 113 - Feature: Ultimate Ulteo - LXF decodes the lifestyle marketing and hyperbole to explain what Ulteo is, why it's important and what it could do for the average Linux user.
  
• Issue 112 - Review: Bubba 2 - Rather than being forced to watch the sequel to a film about hillbillies, Graham finds the best Linux NAS money can buy. Yee-haw!
  
• Issue 112 - Review: Intel Classmate II - We go back to school with Intel's competitor to the OLPC XO.
  
• Issue 112 - Review: Focusrite Saffire LE - To help with the creation of the music section of this month's Get Creative feature, we look at an external audio device.
  
• Issue 112 - Feature: Get creative: music making - Linux is a great platform for audio production - even newbies can get started with making sweet music.
  
• Issue 112 - Interview: Max spevack - The former Fedora Project Leader tells us why Fedora is not a beta for RHEL.
  
• Issue 112 - Feature: Tuning KDE 4.1 - Now that KDE 4 is stable enough for day-to-day use, we fill the remaining cracks in the desktop with some hard-earned tips and tricks.
  
• Issue 111 - Review: Synology DS207+ - We look at the latest Linux-based NAS - all glowing lights, black plastic control panel and white casing. Did someone say 80s?
  
• Issue 111 - Review: SlickEdit 2008 - After forking out more than £150, Graham discovers that there's more to slick editing than a tub of Brylcreem and a copy of Vim.
  
• Issue 111 - Feature:  MythTV: the answer! - As a home media app, MythTV is beyond match. Unfortunately it's also a nightmare to configure - but we have the solution.
  
• Issue 111 - Feature:  30 days with Haiku - An open source BeOS clone looking to take on the desktop: will it give Linux some friendly competition? We find out.
  
• Issue 110 - Review: Stellar Phoenix 3 - Here's a piece of undelete software that may convince you that the desktop trash can is a really good idea.
  
• Issue 110 - Review: Linutop 2 - Almost a year after version 1, Graham looks at a more powerful box that could help him fulfil his ambitions of selling lattes for a living.
  
• Issue 110 - Feature: Linux training - Become a certified Linux expert, build your skills and start raking in the cash!
  
• Issue 109 - Review: Qnap TS-409 Turbo - Graham finds a 4TB network attached storage device to accommodate his growing collection of generative music files.
  
• Issue 109 - Review: JBuilder 2008 - In a break from the convoluted world of C++/Qt, Graham takes a refresher course in brewing coffee, and even finds time to develop some software.
  
• Issue 109 - Book review: C++ GUI Programming with Qt4 - Graham builds a Qt cross-platform app without the help of this book.
  
• Issue 109 - Feature:  Error messages explained - We decode the secret meaning behind the most common Linux error messages and help you cure the problems in the process.
  
• Issue 109 - Tutorial: Python: Build a GUI for Festival - Python and Qt are perfect for rapid application development - and to prove it, we make a speech synthesis GUI app with a mere 60 lines of code.
  
• Issue 108 - Review: Qt 4.4 Open Source Edition - The commercial licence costs thousands in anyone's currency. We examine the GPL version that provides the same code for free...
  
• Issue 108 - Roundup: Download managers - Rated: Aria2, Curl, Downloader for X, GWget, KGet, Wget, WXDownload Fast
  
• Issue 108 - Tutorial: Speaking RSS feeds - The world-wide web can talk to you! Use a simple Python script and the Festival speech synthesiser to vocalise RSS news feeds.
  
• Issue 107 - Review: Neuros OSD - If you're looking for an open source home media player that isn't called MythTV, this might be the solution.
  
• Issue 107 - Review: CrossOver Games 7.0 - Codeweavers' CrossOver is no longer a prosaic office productivity enhancer. Here's the first release designed to play games.
  
• Issue 107 - Feature:  Desktop paradise - Had it with Human? Bored with blue? We'll guide you to form and function on the Linux desktop, whether you run KDE, Gnome or Xfce.
  
• Issue 107 - Tutorial: Arduino: An LED light meter - In the final part of our series, we look at building a light sensor.
  
• Issue 106 - Review: Nokia N810 - Graham wonders whether the Finnish snow camouflages white elephants.
  
• Issue 106 - Review:  UndoDB 2.2 - Graham finds this the perfect tool for finding exactly how his own convoluted and obfuscated code works...
  
• Issue 106 - Review: Runes of Avalon 2 - There are many games that force you to match shapes and colours, but Graham has finally found one worth paying for.
  
• Issue 106 - Review: MythTV 0.21 - Telly addict Graham has wasted half of his life configuring MythTV and the other half watching repeats of Jerry Springer, Jeremy Kyle, Trisha, Montel...
  
• Issue 106 - What on Earth:  Android - The not-at-all paranoid Graham puts Google's Linux-based mobile phone platform through his personal Voight-Kampff machine.
  
• Issue 106 - Tutorial: Arduino: make a drum kit - Like Leo Fender, Robert Moog and Leon Theremin, Graham has taken the complicated and made it look easy - with an Arduino-powered drum machine.
  
• Issue 105 - Review:  Zepto Znote 3215W - If you find the 800x480 screen resolution of the Eee PC a little restrictive, here's a full-size alternative for a little more cash.
  
• Issue 105 - Review: Eschalon: Book I - Fortunately for us, Graham grew up in the 1980s and can remember the days when games like this were commonplace.
  
• Issue 105 - Review: StreamMyGame - Not content with reviewing Linux games, Graham finds a way to use his Windows PC with a clear conscience.
  
• Issue 105 - What on Earth: HTML 5 - Graham puts on his secret Spider-Man costume and swings through the next standard for the world wide web.
  
• Issue 105 - Tutorial: Arduino: Add a score counter - Part 3: Before we move on to other hackery, we've got a project to finish. Let's complete our Simon-like game by adding a score indicator.
  
• Issue 104 - Review: Excito Bubba - Graham is disappointed to find that these embedded Linux storage devices aren't available in bubble gum pink.
  
• Issue 104 - Feature: Gnome vs KDE - KDE 4 is here - should the competition be worried? We stack it up against Gnome, comparing desktop features, core programs and internet apps.
  
• Issue 104 - Feature: Arduino hardware hacking - Part 2 - The game we built last month was silent, so now we'll start generating audio with an Arduino board and a speaker.
  
• Issue 103 - Review:  Shuttle LinuXPC - Graham lifts a thumb on the recently launched Linux Shuttle and test drives the pricier of its diminutive Linux offerings.
  
• Issue 103 - Review: Mandriva Flash 2008 - Graham never saw the point of USB-based Linux distros, until Mandriva and a damsel in distress helped change his mind...
  
• Issue 103 - Book review: Beginning Rails - This newbie-friendly guide gets Graham back on the track.
  
• Issue 103 - Feature: Hardware hacking revisited - Thanks to overwhelming popular demand, our hardware hacking feature is back. Here's a Simon-type game using the Arduino and a few LEDs.
  
• Issue 103 - HotPicks: HotPicks - gscan2pdf, Bazaar, Labplot, Rosegarden, Frets on Fire, Fish Fillets NG, Freecycle, Q DVD Author
  
• Issue 102 - Review: X3: Reunion - With a motto that reads "Trade Fight Build Think", Graham thought this review would be just another day in the office...
  
• Issue 102 - Review: Aten CS62DU KVM - Connecting two machines to the same screen has always been somewhat problematic with Linux. Here's a solution.
  
• Issue 102 - HotPicks:  HotPicks - GCstar, Genius, Osmo, Indywikia, Gbrainy, Comisat, Tasty Menu, Minirok, Brasero, Kile
  
• Issue 101 - Review: Linutop - This must be the best-looking Linux machine ever. We plug in a USB key and try to find out where to turn the power on.
  
• Issue 101 - Review: AstroMenace - If 'Galaxian', 'Uridium' and 'Iridis Alpha' mean nothing at all, Graham feels very sorry for you indeed, as you've obviously led a deprived life so far.
  
• Issue 101 - Feature: PCLinuxOS - With a new update just around the corner, we look at this remarkable distro, finding out why many beginners and experts alike find it to be the perfect antidote to their lust for Linux.
  
• Issue 101 - Interview: Guido van Rossum - The Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Python project outlines his plans for Python 3000...
  
• Issue 101 - HotPicks:  HotPicks - QTractor, Jukebox 3D, Kvkbd, Aqualung, SDL Asylum, Vulcan, White Dune, Miro, Songbird, NoteCase, Ultimate Stunts
  
• Issue 100 - Review: Alien Arena 2007 - Graham finds something to scratch the overwhelming itch in his trigger finger while waiting for the next version of Unreal Tournament to arrive.
  
• Issue 100 - Review: dLAN Wireless extender Starter Kit - A manual is more than just a neat skateboard move - good documentation is always a pleasure to encounter!
  
• Issue 100 - Review: OpenOffice.org 2.3 - It's one of the most important Free Software projects around, yet most users don't try out the new features of each release. We ponder why...
  
• Issue 100 - Book review: Social Networking Sites - We find the 'practical' sub-heading of this book to be surprisingly fitting.
  
• Issue 100 - HotPicks: HotPicks - Gnome-Inform, Yakuake, Motion, Project-M, Zim, Battle Tanks, Bos Wars, Synkron, phpMyAdmin, TaskJuggler
  
• Issue 99 - Review: Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery - There's no mystery at all to what makes a good game. Forget flashy 3D graphics or movie tie-ins: it all comes down to level design.
  
• Issue 99 - Review: QNAP TS-109 Pro - We look at a compact network attached storage device that won't look out of place wherever you put it - in the server room or the living room.
  
• Issue 99 - Review: LMMS 0.3.0 - Graham is enthralled by what has become the best audio composition platform on Linux for anyone to create a decent tune. Everyone needs a 303!
  
• Issue 99 - Roundup: Calendars - Rated: Emacs, Evolution, KOrganizer, Plan, Sunbird, Wyrd
  
• Issue 99 - Feature: 10 great DIY projects - Create 3D anaglyphs from photos, hack your router, broadcast your webcam, build a Linux media server, child-proof your machine and much more...
  
• Issue 98 - Review: TurboLinux Wizpy - No, you've not accidentally picked up the wrong magazine. We really are reviewing an MP3 player!
  
• Issue 98 - Review:  Penumbra: Overture - Blundering around in the cold, Graham discovers that the partial illumination alluded to in the title of this game is perfectly fitting.
  
• Issue 98 - Review: LinuxMCE 0704 - Hankering after something like AppleTV or Windows Media Center Edition for Linux? Then hanker no more - this open source alternative shows great promise.
  
• Issue 98 - Book review: Beginning Database Design - Graham puts some thought into a database before typing CREATE.
  
• Issue 98 - Feature: The Road to KDE 4 - Years of development have brought the KDE 4 development team to the cusp of a major release. We look at some of the features that have made the final grade, as well as some of those attempts that have fallen by the wayside.
  
• Issue 97 - Review: Google Desktop 1.0 - 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.
  
• Issue 97 - Review: Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2 - 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...
  
• Issue 97 - Review: Mail Enforcer 3.0 - Something must be fairly and squarely targeted at the enterprise market when Graham manages to shoehorn the word 'leverage' into a review.
  
• Issue 97 - Book review: Practical MythTV - Here's the perfect crib to pretend you've got MythTV working.
  
• Issue 97 - Feature: What price freedom? - 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.
  
• Issue 96 - Review: Nero Linux 3 - Linux versions of popular software are great, but Graham wonders if CD/DVD burning is ripe for exploration.
  
• Issue 96 - Review: TwonkyMedia 4.4 - There are plenty of multimedia playback devices but not many compatible servers. Here's one of the few that uses Linux.
  
• Issue 96 - Book review: Beginning SUSE Linux - We check out Apress's latest guide for Linux newbies.
  
• Issue 96 - Feature: Detox your Linux box - Linux is only secure and stable if you keepo to a strict diet of official packages and updates. Most of us don't. Graham purges the detritus to reveal and installation that keeps important data intact.
  
• Issue 95 - Review: Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro - The Yoggie puts Linux between your laptop and the net. It's small enough to fit in your pocket, and loaded with security apps. We try it out.
  
• Issue 95 - Review: Studio To Go 2 - Graham finds a richly-featured recording studio on CD that he can carry with him to compose music whenever inspiration strikes. Lucky world!
  
• Issue 95 - Review: Ballistics - If Planet Penguin Racer doesn't get your adrenaline pumping, we may have found a suitable alternative...
  
• Issue 95 - Tutorial: DCOP: Mod the KDE desktop - How would you like a virtual desktop manager for KDE? We show you how to use KDE's powerful DCOP functionality to script one.
  
• Issue 94 - Review: EnergyXT 2 - Free your music from the tired world of tracks and faders. Here's a piece of software where you create the signal path.
  
• Issue 94 - Review: Cedega 6 - Graham has been obsessed with Oblivion for the last 12 months. Finally, he can now play it at work, thanks to the latest version of Cedega.
  
• Issue 94 - Feature: Distro showdown - If you look beyond version numbers, what are the real differences between today's top Linux distros? We look at security, hardware compatibility, performance, community, software selection and more -- and find the best all-round distro.
  
• Issue 94 - Feature: FOSS beyond Linux - It's still hard to fully avoid alternative operating systems. But even in the arid desert of a proprietary platform, we find that free software is flourishing.
  
• Issue 94 - Tutorial: Wireshark: Capture network data - It's amazing what kind of information you can find flowing through your network. We use packet analysis to expose the insecurity of your data.
  
• Issue 93 - Review: Storix SBAdmin 6.1 - Always on the hunt for good sysadmin tools, Graham finds that a serious backup package doesn't need to cost a serious amount of money.
  
• Issue 93 - Review: Squeezebox 3 - The problem with listening to music on your PC is that the beige of the Linux box can clash with your curtains. Here's a solution.
  
• Issue 93 - Feature: The sysadmin's toolkit - You might be the benevolent overseer of a single machine or the manic operator of a thousand, but you can always learn something new. We hunt out the best tips for improving a system's performance, security and networking.
  
• Issue 92 - Review: Rosegarden 1.5 - With a new, more sensible, version number scheme and an overhauled code base, is everything in this garden still rosy?
  
• Issue 92 - Feature: Kill Spam - With deadly efficiency, SpamAssassin blocks the emails other spam filters let through.
  
• Issue 92 - Feature: Code on the Greenphone - You don't need elite programming skills, or even a Greenphone, to develop your first mobile phone application.
  
• Issue 92 - Tutorial: Hardware: Set up a system monitor - Forewarned is forearmed. Monitoring your hardware is the best way of ensuring your system isn't going to fail unexpectedly...
  
• Issue 91 - Roundup: Version control systems - Which is best for your project? Rated: Aegis, Bazaar, CVS, Git, Monotone, RCS, Subversion
  
• Issue 91 - Book review: Linux Administration Handbook - This book will brighten any sysadmin's day - and we're not just referring to the colourful cover!
  
• Issue 91 - Feature: 15 essential security tips - Is your Linux box safe? Are you sure? Even on such a secure OS, a system that gets the basic wrong can be a very attractive target. We offer 15 tips to make an opportunistic cracker give up on your box and move on.
  
• Issue 91 - Tutorial: dh_make: Build your own Debs - We covered RPMs in LXF88, so it's only fair that we balance the Force and show you how to create a Deb file. Graham is your Jedi Master.
  
• Issue 90 - Book review: SUSE Linux - We look at Linux Format writer Chris Brown's distrowerk.
  
• Issue 90 - Feature: Linux problems solved - Feeling stuck? Our guide to the most common problems on Linux should get you moving again.
  
• Issue 90 - Interview: Damian Conway - Perl is one of the most widely used programming languages in existence. This is in part thanks to the productive relationship between its founder, Larry Wall, and its chief co-conspirator, Damian Conway.
  
• Issue 89 - Review: Ardour 2.0 - Ardour 1.0 was the first studio-quality recording tool for Linux. We find out how the project has progressed.
  
• Issue 89 - Roundup: Sound trackers - After 20 years of development, sound trackers are still going strong. We look at six of the best: CheeseTracker, ChibiTracker, Schism Tracker, ShakeTracker, Skale, SoundTracker
  
• Issue 89 - Interview: Michael Tiemann - He entered free software through his extraordinary work on the GNU compiler, but his lasting contribution may be for his business brain.
  
• Issue 89 - Feature: Spread your Linux skills - Because sometimes you need to use another OS... We show you how to transfer hard-won Linux knowledge to Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
  
• Issue 89 - Tutorial: Boot Camp: Get Linux on a Mac - Plenty of Linux users have been seduced by Apple's recent hardware offerings. We show you how to get the best of both worlds with Boot Camp.
  
• Issue 88 - Feature: KDE 4 - taste the future! - KDE fans have heard tantalising hints about the major v4 release, but it's still months away. Key KDE developers give you an early preview.
  
• Issue 88 - Interview: Peter Saint-Andre - Not content with uniting the instant messaging world, Peter Saint-Andre thinks Jabber can go a lot, lot further.
  
• Issue 87 - Review: Mandriva Powerpack 2007 - Publicity describes the latest release of this distro as a quantum leap. With Gael Duval's departure, we ask: in which direction?
  
• Issue 87 - Review: Valgrind 3.2.1 - We descend to the underworld of debugging, using nothing but Valgrind to shine light on those bugs the other tools just can't see.
  
• Issue 87 - Interview: Jeff Waugh - Jeff Waugh has left the comfort of Canonical to answer a calling from the GNU deskop. He's doing it, he tells us, for his mum... and the other billion software users who need FOSS.
  
• Issue 87 - Feature: 30 days with Gnome - Why do we prefer one desktop over another? Graham Morrison breaks a habit of a lifetime and uses Gnome for a month to find out.
  
• Issue 86 - Review: Glade 3.0 - The development team have regrouped and the code has been rewritten. We take a fresh look at the Gnome app interface designer.
  
• Issue 86 - Interview: Nat Torkington - Linux Format can exclusively reveal why Perl 6 is taking so long: Perl Foundation member Nat Torkington is too busy... solving arithmetic puzzles.
  
• Issue 86 - Feature: Firefox 2.0 - ...from inside the Mozilla Foundation. After the Firefox 1.x honeymoon, how can the browser continue to stand out? Mitchell Baker outlines her master plan.
  
• Issue 85 - News: OSCon 2006 show report - This year's premier geekfest...
  
• Issue 85 - Review: VMware Server 1.0 - Virtualisation is big money, and the industry leaders are battling for customers. One of the spoils of war: free enterprise-level software.
  
• Issue 85 - Review: Cairo 1.2 - Graham Morrison gets lost amid the widget-selling souks of Cairo, the shiny vector rendering engine now an integral part of Gnome.
  
• Issue 85 - Book review: Linux Multimedia Hacks - Linux Journal and Slashdot loved this. Graham thinks they're wrong.
  
• Issue 85 - Feature: Novell's Linux enterprise - Three years after Novell bought into Linux with SUSE, we investigate if its new strategy is working.
  
• Issue 85 - Feature: Ulteo: a new hope - What has Gael Duval been doing since he left Mandriva? How does he think the Linux world has changed since Mandrake 5.1?
  
• Issue 84 - Review: Google Earth - In preparation for the geeks inheriting the Earth, we look at Google's blueprint for the design - virtual living never looked so good.
  
• Issue 84 - Review: Gorky 17 - This Poland-set game explores some of the inherent dangers of bolshevo-fascistic eugenics programmes. Now waste that mutant!
  
• Issue 84 - Book review: Essential SNMP - If you don't know how essential SNMP is, you'd better read this...
  
• Issue 84 - Feature: What has the OSDL ever done for us? - The Open Source Development Labs seems to have its fingers in several pies - but does anyone know what it actually does? We investigate.
  
• Issue 83 - Review: Cold War - We go behind the iron curtain to review a chilly thriller from Linux Game Publishing...
  
• Issue 83 - Review: Trend Micro ServerProtect 2.5 - Another proprietary, Linux-based Window cleaning solution.
  
• Issue 83 - Review: Kopete 0.12.0 - It may mean "a drink with friends" in Chile, but for Graham, Kopete means a great IM client.
  
• Issue 83 - Book review: Ajax Hacks - Pages of web design inspiration - but bring your own JavaScript.
  
• Issue 83 - Feature: Ubuntu forever - Ubuntu isn't a distro - it's a way of life. Where did it come from? How can you get the best from it? And what are the intentions of its super-rich founder? It's all explained here.
  
• Issue 83 - Tutorial: PAM: tailored authentication - User authentication isn't for newbies, but with some careful application of PAM modules it is possible to set up sophisticated login systems - even using a humble USB stick.
  
• Issue 82 - Review: Amanda 2.5 - Amanda is an open source upstart and free backup solution - but is she at the top of her game?
  
• Issue 82 - Review: BakBone NetVault 7.4 - Here's a more expensive backup option. NetVault costs lots of money and can store terabytes of data, but is that enough to beat Amanda's free charms?
  
• Issue 82 - Book review: C++ Cookbook - Domestic goddess Graham Morrison finds a cookbook he might actually use.
  
• Issue 82 - Book review: Learning C# 2005 - To review this book, Graham had to forget everything he's ever learned about C#. It was easy!
  
• Issue 82 - Feature: Live your life in Subversion - One stormy night Graham Morrison updated his Subversion server with his home directory by mistake - then realised just how useful his creation is. Here's how you can do the same.
  
• Issue 81 - Review: GnuCash 2.0 - After years of quiet, determined development, GnuCash 2.0 is here. Not a moment too soon for Graham, who needs help consolidating his spiralling debt into a single, monthly payment.
  
• Issue 81 - Review: Second Life - As a child, Graham spent hours trying to push through the back of his wardrobe. Twenty years later, he's made it through - and he seems to be wearing half its contents.
  
• Issue 81 - What on Earth: Elektra - If you thought Elektra was Graham Morrison's drag queen persona you'd be wrong: that's Loretta. But it is the name of a shiny new idea that promises to rid the world of Linux configuration troubles.
  
• Issue 81 - Tutorial: Open-Xchange: Set up and run an open groupware server - Organisations need to collaborate - now you can do it the free software way with Open-Xchange.
  
• Issue 80 - Review: Amarok 1.4 - We wonder if this update of an old classic is a Tubular Bell too many.
  
• Issue 80 - Review: Moneydance 2006 - Graham Morrison accounts for every penny with this cross-platform competitor to GnuCash.
  
• Issue 80 - Interview: Brian Behlendorf - A lot of us take Apache's dominance in the server room for granted. Brian tells LXF how it came to pass.
  
• Issue 80 - Feature: A taste of freedom - The next version of Richard Stallman's Gnu General Public License is being offered up to public scrutiny. Graham Morrison takes a sip of the GPL 3 first draft, and discovers why the debate has only just got started.
  
• Issue 80 - Tutorial: Encryption: Secure filesystems - You don't need an Enigma machine to keep your information safe. We show you how to encrypt your USB stick and laptop data using Fuse, EncFuse and a little module called dm-crypt.
  
• Issue 79 - Review: MythTV 0.19 - Got some time on your hands? Why don't you just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead, such as configuring this multimedia plaything.
  
• Issue 79 - Feature: Build a Linux kiosk - Here's a guide for creating an interactive information powerhouse, whether it's for a museum, internet cafe, doctor's surgery, exhibition...
  
• Issue 79 - Tutorial: Audio: Clean up recordings - Our precious recordings can be fragile things. Whether the cat ate the tape or you spilled beer on the mixer, we have a cleaning solution.
  
• Issue 78 - Review: Arkeia Smart Backup 5.4.9 - This easy and flexible solution makes enforcing a backup regime as painless as possible. So no more excuses, and all together now: "Arkeia, we will do our best".
  
• Issue 78 - Review: Sophos Anti-Virus 5 - We test a new version of one of the highest-regarded virus checkers.
  
• Issue 78 - Roundup: DVD players - Rated: GXine, Kaffeine, KMPlayer, MPlayer, Totem, VLC, Xine
  
• Issue 77 - Review: KDevelop 3.3 - KDE's development environment gives Graham one less excuse to neglect his own projects.
  
• Issue 77 - Review: Audacity 1.3 - We look at the latest update of this venerable cross-platform video editor.
  
• Issue 77 - Roundup: Astronomy software - Graham may be a member of the gutter press, but he's looking at the stars. Rated: Celestia, KStars, Maestro, Nightfall, Nova, StarPlot, Xephem
  
• Issue 77 - Feature: At your service - Do you ever think your Linux box would be able to do more for you than start up OpenOffice.org and run Frozen Bubble all day? Give your PC some real work for a change by turning it into an internet superserver.
  
• Issue 77 - Tutorial: Autopackage: Create a package - If you can learn the complex process of creating Autopackage files, Linux users the world over will thank you. We show you how it's done.
  
• Issue 76 - Review: Blender 2.4 - Graham renders a shoebox and two cubes with the latest release from the Blender Foundation.
  
• Issue 76 - Review: KDE 3.5 - With KDE under increasing pressure from Gnome, we try out its final 3.x release.
  
• Issue 76 - Feature: Make your hardware work harder - Computers these days are connected to so many devices - cameras, printers, iPod-alikes - that it's essential to get your machine configured to work with them all. We help you get every last gadget working with your Linux box.
  
• Issue 75 - Review: Parallels Workstation 2.0 - Before he reviews the latest from VMware, Graham looks at this cheaper alternative.
  
• Issue 75 - Review: VMware Workstation 5.5 - 64 into 32 doesn't go. Well, it does when you've got virtualisation this good...
  
• Issue 75 - Review: JBuilder 2006 Enterprise - We check to see whether this development tool is being Eclipsed by the competition
  
• Issue 75 - Roundup: Virus checkers - Rated: AVG Anti-Virus, BitDefender Linux Edition, ClamAV, F-Prot Anti-Virus, F-Secure Anti-Virus Linux Workstation, InterScan VirusWall, Kaspersky Workstation
  
• Issue 75 - Feature: MythTV - the lost user-guide - You might not have heard of MythTV, a personal video recorder and multimedia plaything for Linux. It's brilliant, but a challenge to install, so we wrote a guide to this super-cool app.
  
• Issue 74 - Review: The Cairo Graphics Library - We look at one of Gnome's capital assets.
  
• Issue 74 - Review: SSH Tectia Server - The security-conscious Graham Morrison goes shopping for a secure remote shell.
  
• Issue 74 - Book review: Perl Best Practices - Graham opens an oyster to find a gem of a book.
  
• Issue 73 - News: News extra: Trademark trumps - Another Australian soap opera, with a trademark action that has left a bad taste in the mouth of many free software users.
  
• Issue 73 - Review: Mandriva Linux 2006 - We hope for fireworks from the Mandriva/Conectiva factory, but fear a damp squib.
  
• Issue 73 - Review: Sugar Suite 3.5 - CRM software is usually closed source. Will this open release please us?
  
• Issue 73 - Review: CrossOver Office 5.0 - 'Naughty but nice' redefined for geeks: eating cream cakes while using MS Office on Linux. Would we pay $40 for such an illicit thrill?
  
• Issue 73 - Review: BrightStor ARCserve Backup - It's scalable, but is it usable? Graham looks at a backup solution for the big boys.
  
• Issue 72 - News: News extra: OSCon, LinuxWorld and UKUUG show reports - Conferences are like buses: you don't get any for ages, and then three come along all at once...
  
• Issue 72 - Review: Qt 4 Open Source Edition - How will the next generation KDE 4.0 desktop look? Trolltech's release of Qt 4, its underlying development framework, gives us a clue. That's 'cute', not 'queue tea', remember.
  
• Issue 72 - Review: BlueGlue Starter Edition - Eclipse and its associated plugins can be tricky to install consistently. Here's a not-so-sticky solution.
  
• Issue 72 - Book review: Performance Tuning for Linux Servers - We look at some of the theory behind speed hacks.
  
• Issue 72 - Book review: Pro Hibernate 3 - Graham tries not to fall asleep.
  
• Issue 72 - Interview: Michael Meeks - A key OpenOffice.org developer at Novell, Michael Meeks is committed to free software with the urgency of a true evangelist.
  
• Issue 72 - Feature: The rise and fall of an open source project - The rewards and frustrations of nurturing your own Linux app...
  
• Issue 71 - Book review: Database in Depth - Graham hates databases, but quite likes this book...
  
• Issue 71 - Feature: Lock out hackers - Surely we don't need to worry about security when we use Linux? Sadly we do, and in an increasingly inhospitable network environment, you need these tools.
  
• Issue 71 - Feature: Unisys opens up - Global computing groups don't announce major Linux strategies every day, and it's rarer still do do so on the Cote d'Azur...
  
• Issue 70 - Review: Studio to Go! - We look at a Live distribution that aims to turn your beige box into Abbey Road Studios. But is it more Beatles For Sale than Sergeant Pepper?
  
• Issue 70 - Review: Soul Ride - Graham straps a virtual snowboard to his feet, puts on his goggles and makes his cool face - but still can't quite get into this disappointing effort.
  
• Issue 70 - Book review: Linux Desktop Hacks - We attempt to make our systems as unstable as possible by trying all of these 100 hacks.
  
• Issue 70 - Feature: Go fetch! - It'll sniff out documents and emails you thought you'd lost forever: is Beagle man's new best friend? Get it running with our guide.
  
• Issue 70 - Interview: Gael Duval - The founding father of Mandrakesoft has seen his baby go from the brink of disaster to becoming part of a multinational Linux empire. How did he do it? And what's next for Mandriva?
  
• Issue 70 - Tutorial: Subversion: Branches, tags and mergers - We explain how to manage your repository once development starts to expand.
  
• Issue 69 - Roundup: Audio editors - Rated: Audacity, Freecycle, FreeWheeling, Glame, ReZound, Sweep, WaveSurfer
  
• Issue 69 - Interview: Alan Cox - He has the beard and the attitude to match - Alan Cox is the archetypal kernel hacker, and he's here to talk to you.
  
• Issue 69 - Tutorial: Subversion: Using a client - Part 2: You've set up a Subversion repository - now get back to work using Subversion as a client.
  
• Issue 68 - Review: Robin Hood: The Legend Of Sherwood - Bravely bold Graham takes the role of Sherwood's favourite son, not at all afraid of nasty crossbows.
  
• Issue 68 - Review: VMware Workstation 5 - With Xen waiting in the wings, we wonder whether the current stage darling still has star quality.
  
• Issue 68 - Book review: Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition - Graham thought he could write a device driver. This book proved him wrong.
  
• Issue 68 - Book review: Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 3rd Edition - Graham is hopeless at networking - he just stands in the corner and refuses to socialise.
  
• Issue 68 - Interview: Michael Robertson - Linspire's leader has a vision of an open source future. But is he in it for the money, the love of Linux - or just to madden his old foe Microsoft?
  
• Issue 68 - Tutorial: Subversion: Set up a repository - Subversion is an excellent open source application for managing your projct development. Appropriately enough, LXF's very own subversive, Graham, is on hand to talk you through it.
  
• Issue 67 - Review: Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 - The company formerly known as Mandrake may be adding zeros to the balance sheet, but we find its latest distro lacking a certain je ne sais quoi.
  
• Issue 67 - Book review: Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop - Graham finally finds a book that his mother might understand.
  
• Issue 67 - What on Earth: Groovy - This time last year, Groovy was talked about as an essential tool for Java developers. Then all went quiet. We explore the hiccups in its development and see if it can still compete.
  
• Issue 67 - Interview: Matthias Ettrich - Someone has to answer for all those applications starting with a K. Who better to ask than the KDE founder (and Trolltech development leader)?
  
• Issue 67 - Tutorial: SuperCollider: Build a synthesizer - For the ultimate in sound manipulation and generation, SuperCollider is hard to beat. We create a simple synthesizer out of a complicated environment.
  
• Issue 66 - Review: OvisLink Multimedia VPN Router and Server - We investigate a server with a sideline in surveillance.
  
• Issue 66 - Review: Win4Lin Home - This might be just the ticket if you've got an ancient Win95 database package that you can't live without, but we're a little underwhelmed by this migration tool.
  
• Issue 66 - Book review: Linux Application Development - Graham forgets all he knows about Linux to review this introduction to command-driven development.
  
• Issue 66 - Feature: Desktop duel: KDE vs Gnome - Two LXFers fight it out and decide once and for all which is better - KDE or Gnome?
  
• Issue 66 - Tutorial: Audio and music production - Part 4: Mastering an audio project involves fixing all its minor inconsistencies. Take to the controls for the final stage in the process.