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It’s a Minty-licious issue as we take a look at the leader of the Distrowatch charts, and ask how it came to be what it is today. We also check out the great games in the Humble Indie Bundle, ask what the best office suite is, play with the new ChromeBook, wonder if the desktop really is dead, chat with Bassam Kurdali and much, much more.
On the disc, we’re sticking with the minty theme with 32 and 64 bit versions, but we’ve also included Manjaro and Precise Puppy.
These bundles have brought some fantastic games to Linux, and raised huge sums of money for charity. We take you inside and show you what it's all about. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
JOSM, Quassel, Gummi, Onboard, Pinta, Gource, EasyStroke, JVGS, Blobby Volley 2, Autojump, Udevil (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Tutorials
Synergy
We introduce a cross-platform method of running more than one computer using the same keyboard and mouse, and multiple screens. (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
It's a flight simulator, but it's not a game. It's "an engineering tool that can be used to predict the flying qualities of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft." Now you know. (John Lane) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Europe invests in free software, RasPi gets an app store, shim bootloader released, SailfishOS rises, 386 support dropped, Samba 4 gains Active Directory, RasPi hackday and Wine-alike for OS X (Andrew Gregory) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Distrowatch: This month's roundup of news from the vaults of Linux distro development