What's in a name? Acronyms, in-jokes and lots of capital letters, if free software is anything to go by. We look at some unfortunate choices that have been made at this critical stage of development. (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Job trends: Linux skills are increasingly sought-after in the jobs market. Which distro comes out on top? Plus: cross-platform application development with Mono. (Chris Brown) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Interview: Richard Stallman
The world's leading proponent of free software tells us why we can never be complacent... (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coverdisc
Four top distros
Gnome 3 Live, Trisquel GNU/Linux 4.5, Arch Linux and Jolicloud. Plus: Firefox 4, Red Eclipse, tutorial code, games podcasts and more. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
HotPicks
Clementine, Hasciicam, PieDock, Khayyam/Floyd, LiVES, Nixory, Shotwell, Gigalomania, Zod Engine, giis for ext4, Virt Manager (Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Tutorials
Email: Using a mail client
Allow us to help you wrest your mail from Google's vice-like grip. Read all your messages in one place with an easy-to-configure client. (Bob Moss) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
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. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
School of Linux: The command line
After much delving around in hardware, the filesystem and packages, it's time to fully master the command line. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Arch Linux: Do it yourself
Fed up with all the similar-looking distros and looking for something new? Try the highly configurable Arch distro. (Shashank Sharma) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
KWin: Window management
Don't like dragging around windows and fiddling with them? You'll be delighted to discover that the newest KWin supports scripting. (Koen Vervloesem) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Server Admin: Basic kickstart
In the first part of this new series, we demonstrate how you can save time and effort by creating a basic kickstart installation. (Stuart Burns) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
KWin: Window management
Don't like dragging around windows and fiddling with them? You'll be delighted to discover that the newest KWin supports scripting. (Koen Vervloesem) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coding Academy
Python: Create a game
Test your programming skills (and your reflexes) with some object-oriented Python code and a round of Whack-a-Mike... (Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Android: Get started
Writing a simple Android program is a quick project. Set up, produce and test a countdown timer app in this first instalment of our new series. (Juliet Kemp) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Learn the basics of Perl
Who says venerable scripting languages are boring? Have a play around with Perl and discover just how useful it can be. (Marco Fioretti) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Reviews
Firefox 4
Although appearing a little on the late side, Firefox 4 is full to the brim with goodies, and that's only the start... (Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Jolicloud 1.2
If you've been looking for a user-centric distro that puts the 'net' in netbook, your wait is over. (Bob Moss) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Spotify
There's finally a native Linux client for the Spotify music services. Andy wants to know whether native is always better. (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
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. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Red Eclipse
Alex began his career the day the first Quake test hit the internet. This sharp-edged shooter tickled his nostalgia gland, and tickled it hard. (Alex Cox) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Linux Foundation Top Gurus list shows importance of end users to the FOSS development community. Plus: Android IP woes; Project Bossanova MMORPG; Hercules launches new eCafe netbooks; Red Hat to surpass $1 billion revenues within a year. (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Distrowatch: Finding Unity
Ubuntu 11.04 - changes abound and mixed reactions greet the latest announcements from Canonical. Plus: Fedora 16, Slackware 13.37, Kororaa GNU/Linux. (Susan Linton) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
What on Earth: Calligra
Think you know KOffice? Well, you don't. The 'other' Linux office suite loses all those K-words and heads for cross-platform glory. (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
