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Nominations are over - now it's time for LXF readers to choose the winners... (N/A)
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Switching your OS? Making the right choice can be tricky, but before you make up your own mind, why not spend the weekend in Mepis? (Mike Saunders, Nick Veitch, Paul Hudson)
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Licences surround us: at work, at home, as customers, as developers. Lawyer David Harris shows you how to orienteer your way through a licence, open or proprietary, and watch out for catches hidden in the legalese. (David Harris)
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With Sun releasing source code to its enterprise-level Unix, competition is hotting up in the open source world. We investigate OpenSolaris and show you how to try it today. (Mike Saunders)
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Here's a guide for creating an interactive information powerhouse, whether it's for a museum, internet cafe, doctor's surgery, exhibition... (Graham Morrison)
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Founder of the SPI, OSI, LSB and UserLinux - Bruce has done his fair share of founding. We spoke to the former Debian Project leader about freedom, Ubuntu and Red Hat... (Paul Hudson)
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Warren worked in diverse IT projects before sinking his time and money into Mepis in 2002... (N/A)
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SimplyMepis 3.4, Gentoo 2006.0, OpenSolaris Belenix, Mono mania, Enlightenment, GCC 4.1.0, Alien Arena 2006, and much more... (Mike Saunders)
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Bftpd, Enemy Lines 3, Fish, GnomeBaker, InitNG, Krusader, No Gravity, Opale, OpenLDev, PCManFM (Mike Saunders)
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Follow the Pied Piper of Podcasting, Andy Channelle, and learn how to record, edit and mix audio. (Andy Channelle)
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For the last in this vector illustration series, we have some truly special effects. (Dmitry Kirsanov)
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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. (Graham Morrison)
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Add features to KDE apps or control them remotely - it's easy with DCOP. (Neil Bothwick)
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"It's the crontab. Chicks dig the crontab." Or at least so says Paul Hudson, who this month proves his manhood in the manly areas of job control, Linux directory browsing and environmental variables. (Paul Hudson)
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How will the changes being brewed for the soon-to-be-served PHP upgrade affect your scripts? We show you how to usr the incoming features. (Paul Hudson)
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An exceptional release from the bubbly Fedora team. (Andy Hudson)
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Powerline Ethernet gets a much needed super speed boost. (Nick Veitch)
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So Linus doesn't like Gnome, but does Andy Hudson? (Andy Hudson)
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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. (Graham Morrison)
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Shall I compare thee to a bitmap? Vector graphics are all the rage, so we test some of the best editors available for design, illustration or just doodling. (Nick Veitch)
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Shiny new features abound, but was the new SUSE enterprise desktop developed behind closed doors? Plus: Google applications on the way, Dell does Linux, CrossOver on Linspire, Mandriva Mindawn deal, VMware appliance challenge, SCO subpoenas stumble (Andy Channelle)
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Fedora Core 5, SUSE 10.1, Ubuntu 6.04 - easier installation and 3D desktops. Plus: Gentoo Linux 2006.0, Kororaa Xgl 0.1, RPath Linux 1.0, busiest distro communities (Ladislav Bodnar)
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Hit-and-miss hardware management has been the weakness of many a Linux system, but those crafty KDE hackers have a cunning plan. (Jono Bacon)
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