Is your distro feeling sluggish? Looking for that extra injection of pace? Mike has spent the last six years performance-tuning Linux distros and still feels the need for speed. Additional writing: Graham Morrison and Mark Bain. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
A key OpenOffice.org developer at Novell, Michael Meeks is committed to free software with the urgency of a true evangelist. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coverdisc
Two speedy distros
Gentoo 2005.1 and Zenwalk 1.2. Plus: Syllable, ReactOS, Haiku, Gtk 2.8.0, Firefox 1.5 preview, Sylpheed, Gillo, Scorched3D (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
HotPicks
Fish Fillets, FOX Desktop, InitNG, Lunapaint, ngIRCd, Pong2, Ratpoison, SquashFS, tovid, vile (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Part 4: Not all scripts must be built from scratch. Marco 'Prefab' Fioretti shows you how to reuse code. (Marco Fioretti) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Gambas modules and classes
Part 2: Let's keep this our little secret, but programming is really easy. We show you the line of least resistance. (Mark Bain) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
PHP: A* path-finding
Paul couldn't find his way out of a paper bag, but can somehow program a path-finding script. If you're a keen games programmer you might want to follow him... (Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Reviews
Qt 4 Open Source Edition
How will the next generation KDE 4.0 desktop look? Trolltech's release of Qt 4, its underlying development framework, gives us a clue. That's 'cute', not 'queue tea', remember. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
MainActor 5.5
Video editing is making a play for the consumer desktop. Here's a proprietary contender. (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Doom 3: Ressurection of Evil
Fresh back from the US, Paul seems to have developed a curious fascination with guns. Can this Doom extension satisfy his bloodlust? (Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Inkscape 0.42
Do Inkscape developers ever sleep? We marvel at the pace of this program's development... (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
BlueGlue Starter Edition
Eclipse and its associated plugins can be tricky to install consistently. Here's a not-so-sticky solution. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Knoppix 4.0
The makers of Knoppix have decided that it has outgrown the CD. This new DVD is an interesting if frustrating release. (Jon Kent) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
PDF readers
You read PDF files every day - so it would be silly not to use the best software out there: Rated: Acrobat Reader, Evince, GGv, GPdf, KGhostview, KPDF, Xpdf (Marco Fioretti) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
More
News: SUSE opens up to hackers
Novell invites community contributions to SUSE 10 at last. Plus: open source systems trialled in schools, Klax offers peek at KDE 3.5, TurboLinux woos the Windows 98 crowd, 'Office for Linux' rumours resurface, ThinkFree Office 4 (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
News: News extra: OSCon, LinuxWorld and UKUUG show reports
Conferences are like buses: you don't get any for ages, and then three come along all at once... (Paul Hudson, Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
What on Earth: Podcasting
Need to spread your ideas far and wide? Andy discovers a new way to get his annoying voice heard by the masses. (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
