Discover the very best in email, browsers, image apps and more!
Linux training: turn your Linux skills into cash and get a dream job
On our 4GB DVD: seven full distros including Sabayon, Slax and Gentoo. Plus: 100 pages of OpenOffice.org guides
Tutorials on BitTorrenting, making audio CDs, mastering Gimp, programming games and using LaTeX
Features
25 killer apps
Photo managers, emailers, text editors and a whole lot more - we round up the very best that Linux has to offer. (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
We report from June's Open Source City micro-art festival in Liverpool, the European Capital of Culture. (Daniel James) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Dr Brown's Administeria
Unison, the bi-directional synchronisation tool, explained. Plus: keep tabs on your boxes with top and vmstat. (Chris Brown) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Interview: Ian Pratt
We've seen the future, and it's virtualised. The chief architect of Xen and founder of XenSource tells us what's big, what's new and what's next. (Mike Saunders, Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coverdisc
Quadruple-booting DVD
Try Sabayon, Gentoo, Slax and Fedora Live distros straight from the DVD. Plus: Puppy, Damn Small, 100 pages of OpenOffice.org tutorials and over 40 great apps (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
HotPicks
Misfit model 3D, ArchView, Oroboros, KAlarm, Be The Wumpus, Diamond Fighters, GET, DeVeDe, Eric, Ping (Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Tutorials
First steps: browsers and Vuze
We show you how to keep your browser bookmarks in sync, and download smarter with Vuze. (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Make your own audio CDs
Here's how to make a good-looking (and sounding) disc to take Frank Zappa on the road using two great Free Software tools. Now sheik yer boot screen! (Daniel James) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Creative text with Gimp
You can do more with text than you might think, as our graphics guru demonstrates. (Michael J Hammel) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Game programming
Itchy trigger finger? Even itchier programming fingers? We show you how to make your own Space Invaders-like game with a mere 100 lines of code. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Hardcore: LaTeX document typesetting
When it comes to desktop publishing, Juliet reckons WYSIWYG is for wimps - proper geeks use code, packages and lots of curly brackets. (Juliet Kemp) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Reviews
Firefox 3
Firefox 3.0 was downloaded over eight million times in one day, but is it any good? We look at the product behind the publicity. (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Zonbu OS
We test drive a beginner-friendly Linux distribution that took its head out of the clouds and landed on a computer near you. (Susan Linton) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Stellar Phoenix 3
Here's a piece of undelete software that may convince you that the desktop trash can is a really good idea. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
IBM Lotus Symphony
A cross-platform office suite from IBM that has fewer features than OpenOffice.org 1.1! (Marcus Green) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
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. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Live CDs
On test: Damn Small Linux, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Puppy Linux, Sabayon, Slax, Ubuntu (Marco Fioretti) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
More
News: Xandros eats rival
Linspire acquisition consolidates the market but annoys past Linspire CEO. Also: Novell targets SharePoint with Kablink; Mandriva on the TechSurfer; Ulteo Sirius; software patents; Open Web Foundation; KDE 4.1 (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Distrowatch: Gentoo for you
Gentoo 2008.0, with its new installer and package options, is no longer just for the 1337 minority. Plus: Sabayon 3.5, Mandriva 2009, desktop popularity (Susan Linton) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
What on Earth: FPGAs
Fiddling with apps, operating systems and even assembly language is passe: here's the next frontier for hackers. (Marco Fioretti) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
