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How to make a billion dollars the Red Hat way. Yes, a billion dollars!
While other tech companies have been making headlines, Red Hat has been making money, and it has done so by selling a product that anyone can get for free: Linux. Is this a con trick? Alchemy? No: it turns out that hard work, expertise and giving the customers what they want is still a good way to do business. We spoke to the Red Hat chaps to find out more.
Also in the magazine we find out the pitfall-free way to add a new hard drive to your setup, build a supercomputer the easy way with a Beowulf cluster and turn our Raspberry Pi into a file server.
And for the less hackery but still geeky we report on the Open Data Cities conference in Brighton (the government collects data, we pay the government, so we should own the data, dammit!) , reassess the role the Firefox plays in the collective heart and mind of the Linux community, and give Hockney a run for his money with Gimp.
On the DVD: We've crammed Fedora 17, Mint 13 and Mageia 2 plus ArchBang plus our usual awesome content.
Features
Firefox: How Mozilla Cracked the Browser Monopoly
The world's most popular source browser keeps going from strength to strength. We chart its progress and show you how to beef it up with extra features. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Open Data Cities
The UK's first Open-data Cities Conference proves that there's an enormous amount of political support for improving access to public data sets. Use them or lose them. (Adam Oxford) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Red Hat
Find out how the world's largest open source company earned a billion dollars by making freedom a must-have feature. (Jonathan Roberts) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
OpenUsability.org is trying to make your Linux box easier to use. We met up with one of its co-founders. (Andrew Gregory) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Whether you want to add a 2TB giant or a tiny SSD, we sjow you how to avoid the pitfalls of partitioning. (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Rasperry Pi
In our second RPi tutorial, we go through package management, emulation and network attached storage. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
After tolerating dozens of bug reports about his own code, Graham Morrison shares what to do to avoid it. (Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Python: Work With Google's API
We dip into the cauldron of wonder that is the Google data API, and learn how to access everything with Python. (Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
It may be one of the best-known open source projects, but progress can be glacially slow. We look at a release four years in the making. (Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Mageia 2
Mageia is the natural upgrade path for Mandriva users. Version 2 shows promise, but also has limitations. (Ben Everard) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Are privacy concerns keeping you off popular social networks? Find an alternative that is open in more than one way. (Mayank Sharma) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
More
News: All the latest news from the Linux universe
Oracle lose their legal battle, Google take on the iPad and provide Raspberry Pis for English schools, Mandriva goes to the community and much more. (Andrew Gregory) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Distrowatch: This month's roundup of news from the vaults of Linux distro development
Get the latests updates on the Mandriva saga, check out the slack Puppy, and discover an OS so bad they named it terrible. (Susan Linton) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
What on Earth: OpenCL
We present an open graphics standard that may make many applications run faster than they do today. (Marco Fioretti) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
