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Issue 87 (Christmas 2006) - Fedora Core 6 Uncovered
Infinity + freedom + voice: the tech, community and future of FedoraFeatures
Fedora Core 6 uncovered
Infinity? Freedom? Is Fedora trying to corner the market on idealism? Why is a wiki better than DocBook? Who is actually in charge? We answer all the questions. (Nick Veitch)
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Tcl time
Want to spread your coding wings beyond C and Perl? Mike Saunders We kick off a new series exploring fascinating but lesser-known languages, starting with Tcl... (Mike Saunders)
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30 days with Gnome
Why do we prefer one desktop over another? Graham Morrison breaks a habit of a lifetime and uses Gnome for a month to find out. (Graham Morrison)
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Interview: Jeff Waugh
Jeff Waugh has left the comfort of Canonical to answer a calling from the GNU deskop. He's doing it, he tells us, for his mum... and the other billion software users who need FOSS. (Graham Morrison)
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Interview: Nat Friedman
The release of SLED 10 proved that Linux is ready for the business desktop. The project leader is Nat Friedman, and he maps out his vision of the future. (Nick Veitch)
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Coverdisc
Mandriva Free 2007
Fast and simple installer, excellent hardware detection, and stacks of great software. Plus: magazine PDFs (security, speedups, hardware); OOo 2.0.4, Oxygen XML demo, security toolkit, conglomerate, games, essentials (Mike Saunders)
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HotPicks
GtkLife, Liferea, KBackup, Bluefish, Lost Labyrinth, X-Moto, HomeBank, MOC, Kdesvn (Richard Drummond)
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Tutorials
QuiteInsane: A scanning project
It's not just big business that can benefit from legacy hardware - we rehabilitate the humble scanner. (Andy Channelle)
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Konqueror: Be a power user
Don't you love it when you find a fiver in a pocket, or some pesto in the back of the fridge? Here are 30 hidden gems from Konqueror... (Marco Fioretti)
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Mono: Write a Hello World
Want to learn to program? Here's your chance, with a new series on Mono, C# and .NET. (Paul Hudson)
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Ethereal: Check network traffic
Beat the script kiddies to it, by setting up a daily sniffing routine, monitor vulnerabilities and disable compromised applications. (Paul Hudson)
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Security: Build a Linux firewall
Any networked computer is open to attack. We show you how to reduce your vulnerability by creating a firewall using standard Linux tools. (Chris Brown)
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DocBook: Write better docs
What do the kernel, FreeBSD, KDE and Gnome have in common? Documentation, as it turns out. We present the neat new technology behind it. (Paul Hudson)
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Reviews
Oxygen 7.2
Creating tagged text should be exciting and fun! Brace yourself for an XML editor that is really well-formed. (Nick Veitch)
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Mandriva Powerpack 2007
Publicity describes the latest release of this distro as a quantum leap. With Gael Duval's departure, we ask: in which direction? (Graham Morrison)
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Valgrind 3.2.1
We descend to the underworld of debugging, using nothing but Valgrind to shine light on those bugs the other tools just can't see. (Graham Morrison)
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Fedora Core 6 vs Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu's giant community and Shuttleworth's millions versus Fedora's giant community and Red Hat's... well, whatever it has. (Andy Hudson)
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Web browsers
Amaya, Dillo, Epiphany, Firefox, Galeon, Konqueror, Links2, Lynx, Opera, SeaMonkey (Richard Drummond)
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More
News: Rift widens over GPLv3
Kernel pragmatists and FSF idealists argue over direction of cornerstone open source license. Plus: IBM opens up on patent applications, Mandriva acquires Linbox FAS, Libya orders OLPC, France weighs up ODF, Portland 1.0 (Andy Channelle)
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Distrowatch: Old school
Slackware Linux 11.0. Plus: Sabayon Linux 3.1, Ichthux, Ubuntu Christian Edition, newest software table. (Ladislav Bodnar)
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What on Earth: Harmony
If beer isn't free, why should coffee be? We examine the latest attempt to free the Java programming language. (Paul Hudson)
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