Issue 90 (March 2007) - All your Linux problems solved!
Quick fixes, hardware hints, installation notes, and the science of troubleshooting
Features
Linux problems solved
Feeling stuck? Our guide to the most common problems on Linux should get you moving again. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
The road to Enlightenment
The fabled E17 has appeared at least... on the PlayStation 3! We explain how some bad news for Yellow Dog transformed the desktop project. (Nathan Sanders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Feathers in your cap
Fancy teaching your Apache server some new tricks? Learn how to use three of our favourite Apache modules for superior web serving. (Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Lingua esotericas
Thought C was tough? Don't like Perl's syntax? Stop your whining, because we're about to show you some truly scary languages. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Interview: Damian Conway
Perl is one of the most widely used programming languages in existence. This is in part thanks to the productive relationship between its founder, Larry Wall, and its chief co-conspirator, Damian Conway. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coverdisc
Knoppix 5.1.1
Plus Fedora Core 6 Live, 45 pages of Inkscape tutorials (PDFs), OpenBSD 4.0, OpenOffice.org 2.1, SoftMaker 2006 demo, BitTorrent clients, Warzone 2100, and much more... (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
HotPicks
Partition Image, GElemental, Weatherspect, Texmacs, FreeCol, GLChess, Exaile, KAlarm, EDB, Smb4k (Richard Drummond) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Tutorials
RPM: Easily install packages
Linux software management on Fedora Core, SUSE and Mandriva is a breeze with RPM. We take a pleasant stroll through updates and installation. (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
SugarCRM: Get it installed
Part 1: A spoonful of customer relationship management is good for business. In this new series, we show you how to tame the top open source CRM. (Mark Bain) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
MySQL: Code with PHP
Part 3: PHP and MySQL go together like Mario and Luigi. Paul presents a project for combining them together to create an interactive database. (Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Mono: Link in to libraries
Build a super filesystem searcher in under an hour? We make the impossible not only possible, but easy... (Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Grub: Hack your bootloader
The standard distro installation may boot itself very well, but what if you have a dozen operating systems to juggle? (Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Reviews
OpenSUSE 10.2
Novell has been in the news for all sorts of reasons lately - we try its latest distro release to see whether it's good news this time. (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
To help you avoid the download bottleneck for a new distribution, we look at the latest crop of BitTorrent client software. Rated: Azureus, BitTornado, BitTorrent, Deluge, KTorrent, TorrentFlux, Transmission (Maurice Kelly) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
More
News: Towns defends Debian
DPL says delays, disputes and cash controversy will make the project stronger. Plus: Amsterdam trials Linux, Red Hat blooms, Torvalds chooses KVM, First Microsoft customers get SUSE, Jeremy Allison moves to Google, AmigaOS 4 released (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Distrowatch: Fedora rethink
Fedora 7 'Core' has gone and that's not all: the developers' summit reveals a change in direction for Red Hat's community project. Plus: Pardus Linux 2007, SystemRescueCD 0.3, online community sizes (Ladislav Bodnar) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
