Got a gadget and want to have some fun? Install Linux on your Sony PSP, PlayStation 3, PDA, Nintendo DS, Xbox and more...
Make the most of your sound card with our ALSA tips and tricks
Want a huge Linux cluster all to yourself? We explore Amazon's Compute Cloud
On our 4GB DVD: Fedora 9, a complete, cutting-edge distro. Plus: Linux flavours for the DS, Eee, Xbox...
Tutorials on adding a new distro to the Eee PC, working with Gimp layers, grokking Ruby on Rails and writing an RSS speech synthesiser
Features
Linux on everything
Control your world by installing Linux on our video game consoles, set-top boxes, wireless router, and just about anything that has an LCD screen... (John Brandon) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
ALSA: Advanced tips and tricks
Go deep into the sound system on your Linux machine and get the best from the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. (Daniel James) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Amazon's Compute Cloud
Want your own personal, huge Linux cluster to throw your worst and most exciting problems at? Big computing is now really cheap... (Dan Frost) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
He's been hacking on the X Window System for over 20 years, but he's still excited about the future of Linux's GUI foundations. (Mike Saunders, Paul Hudson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coverdisc
Fedora 9
Get the very latest Linux - over 2,000 packages! Plus: desktop apps, development tools, newbie guides and games. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
HotPicks
Liferea, Qtractor, Strasheela, Endeavour II, Word War Vi, Cave9, ColorExplorer, TuxType, When, DelSafe (Richard Smedley) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Tutorials
First steps
Redirect your Gmail messages with POP or IMAP, and organise your life using Tomboy and Tasque (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Eee PC: Add a new distro
Your Eee isn't limited to a single distribution. We show you how to install another Linux flavour and back up your files. (Mike Saunders) Click here to read!
Gimp: Work with layers
Like Photoshop, the key to Gimp lies in mastering layers. We show you how layer rotations are the cogs to your next project. (Michael J Hammel) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Problem solving: basic principles
With computers, there's always a brand new problem round the corner - so here are a few simple techniques to get to grips with anything. (Juliet Kemp) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Rails: Build a photo album
Confounded by C? Perplexed by Perl? We show you how quick and easy it is to get started with Ruby on Rails. (Alex Young) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Speaking RSS feeds
The world-wide web can talk to you! Use a simple Python script and the Festival speech synthesiser to vocalise RSS news feeds. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Reviews
Fedora 9
Still showing the rest of the free world how things should be done, Fedora 9 scores a hit. (Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
The Amazing Brain Train
Mike has suffered many bad experiences with train delays. Will this brain-bending cutefest make him feel any better? (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Qt 4.4 Open Source Edition
The commercial licence costs thousands in anyone's currency. We examine the GPL version that provides the same code for free... (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Picasa for Linux 2.7
How can you get images from just about any digital camera, perform tweaks and organise them efficiently? (Dale Strickland-Clark) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Inkscape 0.46
Fashions are fickle in the graphics world; after the ascendancy of the bitmap, vectors are jazzy once again. We witness a rebirth of cool. (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Motherboard-with-Linux plan will push out one million Linux installations per month. Plus: more Eee competition from Dell and MSI, 2X Application Server, new OLPC prototype, Banshee 1.0, Novell's great Linux sales leap, Microsoft adopts ODS (Andy Channelle) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Distrowatch: Slackware at 15
We wish the distro daddy many happy returns as it celebrates its 15th birthday at version 12.1. Plus: Antis (Mini Mepis), Puppy Linux 4.0, GPL violating distros (Susan Linton) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
