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Issue 86 (December 2006) - Special 15th Birthday Edition
Celebrate fifteen years of Linux with a special look at the past and future of the world's fastest-growing OSFeatures
15 years of Linux
A student project from 1991 has grown into a liberating operating system that businesses and users dependon on and enjoy throughout the world. We track down the hackers who made it happen. (Andy Channelle, Neil Bothwick)
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Firefox 2.0
...from inside the Mozilla Foundation. After the Firefox 1.x honeymoon, how can the browser continue to stand out? Mitchell Baker outlines her master plan. (Graham Morrison)
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Backwards debugging
Command-line debugging is hard to master, but here's something even more mind-boggling: backwards debugging with UndoDB. (Paul Hudson)
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Interview: Nat Torkington
Linux Format can exclusively reveal why Perl 6 is taking so long: Perl Foundation member Nat Torkington is too busy... solving arithmetic puzzles. (Graham Morrison)
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Interview: Michael Sparks
As the world's biggest broadcaster, the BBC needs some serious technology for online delivery and media codecs. Open source is an appealing solution, explains Michael Sparks. (N/A)
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Coverdisc
LXFDVD86
Dual-booting Gentoo 2006.1 and PCLinuxOS 0.93. Plus: 250 pages of previous mag content in PDF format; DeLi Linux; ReactOS; Haiku; Soft Landing System; new desktop apps; development tools; games (Mike Saunders)
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HotPicks
OpenBox, ESpeak, Tellico, PulseAudio, PangZero, Ksirk, Xarchiver, Partition Logic, sshfs, Zile (Richard Drummond)
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Tutorials
Wine: Windows on Linux!
Software will not become free overnight. Until that day we'll need a way to run Windows apps on Linux. (Andy Channelle)
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Inkscape: Try it against Xara
Should it be Inkscape or Xara Xtreme for your work? Find out here... (Dmitry Kirsanov)
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Security: Probe your system
This month: vulnerability scanning. We show you how to seriously test the windows and rattle the doorknobs of your network. (Chris Brown)
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Ogre: Fire lasers to a soundtrack
In this final installment of the series, it's time to pick some fitting music to kill robots by. (Paul Hudson)
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Kamaelia: P2P collaboration
Run a peer-to-peer whiteboard application using the new Kamaelia framework, then extend it into multimedia streaming and beyond. (Michael Sparks)
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Reviews
Firefox 2.0
The next great iteration of the next great browser has hit the internet. But is the impact more of a nudge than a thud? (Alex Cox)
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Partition Manager 8.0
NTFS support? Inconceivable! We try some software that could keep your hard drive firing on all cylinders. (Nick Veitch)
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Slackware 11
Nearly a year after its last release, we sit on the knee of this granddaddy distro and find nary a Werther's Original nor a 2.6 kernel in its pocket. (Tom Wilkinson)
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Xara Xtreme 0.7
The open sourcing of Xara in March 2006 was an exciting development. Now it's getting close to 1.0 - was the excitement worth it? (Andy Channelle)
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Glade 3.0
The development team have regrouped and the code has been rewritten. We take a fresh look at the Gnome app interface designer. (Graham Morrison)
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Freespire 1.0
Last issue Gael Duval said that ease-of-use just isn't enough any more. But has Freespire even got that right? (Andy Channelle)
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File managers
A file manager is just a file manager, right? Not so, as we discover in this megacomparison of the best Linux has to offer. Rated: EmelFM2, Gentoo, Konqueror, Midnight Commander, Nao, Nautilus, Rox-filer, Xfm (Mike Saunders)
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More
News: Click-N-Run free for all
Free CNR to join Freespire as Linspire abandons the 'software as product' business model. Plus: SLED to run upgraded RealPlayer, Oxfordshire County Council puts Red Hat in schools, SGI moves away from Irix to Linux-based Altix (Andy Channelle)
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News: EuroOSCon 2006
A week with geeks in Brussels can only mean one thing: coding. And waffles. And lots of beer. (Nick Veitch, Paul Hudson)
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Distrowatch: Red alert
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, first beta. Plus: Mandriva Linux 2007, Zenwalk Linux 3.0, distro derivatives (Ladislav Bodnar)
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What on Earth: DCCP
Good news for downloaders and VoIP users: here's a new technology that will help more internet traffic reach its destination. (David Coulson)
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