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Issue 75 (January 2006) - Take on the tech of 2006

Your hands-on guide to installing and using the software of the future

 Features

Reader Awards 2006

The nomination phase! (N/A)
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Take on the tech of 2006

Big things are promised for Linux in 2006, on the desktop and server - and for once, those aren't empty promises. We've seen the software of the future - downloaded it, installed it and even played with it - and want to share it with you... (Mike Saunders, Nick Veitch, Paul Hudson)
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Where are the women in open source?

Are sexist attitudes turning women way from Linux? (Rebecca Smalley)
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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. (Graham Morrison)
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Interview: Larry Wall

Perl 6 has been in production for several years now, and still doesn't seem to be close to release. We cornered Larry Wall and asked him just what was going on. (Paul Hudson)
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 Coverdisc

Mandriva 2006 and Ubuntu 5.10

Two great full distros! Plus: OpenOffice.org 2.0, AbiWord 2.4, XMule, GnuCash, Danger From The Deep (Mike Saunders)
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HotPicks

Antispyd, Gestures, Gnumeric, Klik, Little Wizard, Oolite, Volleyball, Xarchiver, XPN, Yawk (Mike Saunders)
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 Tutorials

OpenOffice.org Word Processing

We explore one-touch text formatting, image editing and more. (Andy Channelle)
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Gimp selection tools

we compare the upcoming Foreground Selection tool with the venerable Quick Mask. (Michael J Hammel)
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Inkscape cloning and tiling

Dmitry's evil twin introduces cloning, one of the most exciting Inkscape features. (Dmitry Kirsanov)
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Emacs - installing extensions

Still wondering how to load all those .el files? Here's the answer. (Biagio Lucini)
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Squid - set up a proxy server

We kick off a new series designed to push the limits of your Linux knowledge. (Paul Hudson)
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PHP - multibyte strings

Do your PHP scripts work smoothly across languages? Paul gets out his phrasebook... (Paul Hudson)
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 Reviews

Firefox 1.5

Pop-ups, begone! The team behind the World's Fastest-Growing Browser are back. (Alex Cox)
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Parallels Workstation 2.0

Before he reviews the latest from VMware, Graham looks at this cheaper alternative. (Graham Morrison)
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VMware Workstation 5.5

64 into 32 doesn't go. Well, it does when you've got virtualisation this good... (Graham Morrison)
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JBuilder 2006 Enterprise

We check to see whether this development tool is being Eclipsed by the competition (Graham Morrison)
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AbiWord 2.4

With several smooth new features in this release, AbiWord is still Paul's favourite office app. (Paul Hudson)
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Virus checkers

Rated: AVG Anti-Virus, BitDefender Linux Edition, ClamAV, F-Prot Anti-Virus, F-Secure Anti-Virus Linux Workstation, InterScan VirusWall, Kaspersky Workstation (Graham Morrison)
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 More

News: 2006 - a desktop odyssey?

Mandriva upbeat while KDE and Gnome prepare for Vista. Plus: Firefox market share, Novell job losses, Linspire's cheap PC, VMware Player, Xara Xtreme (Andy Channelle)
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Distrowatch: Download servers jammed by fans

Distro release teams caught off-guard by demand. Plus: Elive 0.3, distro upgrade tools (Ladislav Bodnar)
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What on Earth: OpenDocument

We introduce the new format for office files that's making waves in Brussels and Boston. (Marco Fioretti)
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