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Issue 68 (July 2005) - The X factor
New technologies putting Linux on top for the desktop: X.org, acceleration, Cairo, LuminosityFeatures
The X factor
Far from its clunky image, Linux is poised to introduce key new display technologies ahead of both Windows and Mac OS X... (Richard Drummond)
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How to win friends and influence people
Or: effective evangelism for geeks. Two professional evangelists show you how to turn friends, colleagues and clients on to free and open source software. (Zak Greant, Jennifer Zickerman)
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Extreme Programming: a failed process?
Extreme Programming was supposed to safeguard software development - but your project would have a better chance of survival with ICONIX Process... (Matt Stephens, Doug Rosenberg)
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Infosecurity Europe 2005
Every year, security pros and the paranoid converge on London for Europe's biggest IT event. This year Nick slipped past the guards to ring back this report. (Nick Veitch)
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Interview: Michael Robertson
Linspire's leader has a vision of an open source future. But is he in it for the money, the love of Linux - or just to madden his old foe Microsoft? (Graham Morrison)
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Coverdisc
Gentoo 2005.0 and Ubuntu 5.04
Plus: Roundup mini distros (Neil Bothwick)
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HotPicks
Akregator, Album Shaper, Blackbox, Dstat, GNUnet, Hot Potato, Kat, Knoda, Meld, Monsterz, xpad (Mike Saunders)
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Tutorials
Upgrades: Exploit apt and RPM
Don't get left behind. We explain how to get package management tools sniffing out the latest upgrades on your behalf. (Andy Channelle)
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Gimp: Transform humdrum images
If you fancy revitalising an old photo - or can't afford to buy images from a stock library - try these Gimp techniques and feel like a graphics god. (Michael J Hammel)
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Subversion: Set up a repository
Subversion is an excellent open source application for managing your projct development. Appropriately enough, LXF's very own subversive, Graham, is on hand to talk you through it. (Graham Morrison)
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ICC: Fast optimisation strategies
Biagio feeds his need for speed with the Intel C Compiler. (Biagio Lucini)
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Shell: Exit codes and flow control
Marco helps you to come out of your shell and structure your code for group projects. (Marco Fioretti)
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X11: Set up a dual-head system
There are several ways to configure multiple monitors in X11, so prepare to start seeing double... (George Wright)
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PHP: The curl library
Sockets are shiny, and FTP is efficient, but why must you treat them separately? Paul gets on the ice to show off his curling skills. (Paul Hudson)
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Reviews
MySQL 5.0 vs PostgreSQL 8.0
We risk an LXF flame war by taking the two leading open source database servers head-to-head. (David Coulson)
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Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional
A button is not a toy, we're given to understand. Certainly not when they cost over two quid each... (Nick Veitch)
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Robin Hood: The Legend Of Sherwood
Bravely bold Graham takes the role of Sherwood's favourite son, not at all afraid of nasty crossbows. (Graham Morrison)
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Ubuntu 5.04
Andy hopes this is one hedgehog that won't get squashed. (Andy Hudson)
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VMware Workstation 5
With Xen waiting in the wings, we wonder whether the current stage darling still has star quality. (Graham Morrison)
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CentOS 4
We love the GPL. Without it, where would CentOS be? (Andy Hudson)
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Mini distros
Looking for a lightweight Linux for an old machine? We dive into a pile of distro CDs and pick the bets. Rated: Damn Small Linux, Feather Linux, INSERT, muLinux, Puppy Linux, ZipSlack (Mike Saunders)
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More
News: New projects rise from flames of BitKeeper controversy
Tridge and McVoy force Linus to write a source code manager of his own. Plus: Debian leader Branden Robinson begs users not to distrupt Sarge; Munich snubs IBM for city-wide Linux rollout; MS Virtual Server 2005 to support Linux; VMware Workstation 5 (Andy Channelle)
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What on Earth: XDMCP
LXF's serial networker Amias finds a way to run graphics apps on a rusty old laptop at the speed of light (well, nearly). (Amias Channer)
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