Issues

Issue 19

Issue 19 of Free Software Magazine is out, and so are another 18 fantastic articles. Tony Mobily opens the magazine with his editorial on file formats. Andrew Min and Gary Richmond join forces to provide useful tips&tricks, while Robin Monks reviews some of the best free software media players. Howard Fosdick reviews Puppy Linux, Andrew Min talks about Pidgin, and Dirk Morris covers Untangle Gateway... and that's just the tip of the iceberg!


Issue 18

Issue 18 is here and with it another bunch of great articles all about free software. We have Andrew Min showing us how to dual-boot Windows and Kubuntu. There's Mitch Meyran's in depth article on 3D desktops and Xavier Calbet's one on Fractal generation. Rosalyn Hunter breaks in new users with her follow up article on using the CLI and Jonathan Roberts gives us all the low down on how to get help with free software. Of course, I'm only scratching the surface... there's a lot more in this fine issue of Free Software Magazine.


Issue 17

Issue 17 of Free Software Magazine is here and it's a big one! Steve Goodwin talks about the evil inside every programmer in "The seven sins of programmers". Solveig Haugland has two great new OpenOffice.org howtos for you. David Horton wants to help you make waves with Audacity and Matt Barton lets us in on "What's a GNU/Linux distribution?" anyway. Eddy Macnaghten goes into open-format depth in his "ODF/OOXML technical white paper" and Ken Leyba helps you "Backup your workstation with Backup Manager". And, as always, but even more this time than usual, there's much, much more...Enjoy!


Issue 16

Wow! We're up to Issue 16 of Free Software Magazine. And it comes with a big change - it's online only! It still brings you a wealth of fine articles: Davide Carboni hacks your living room in "A media center based on GNU/Linux", Mitul Limbani phones in a detailed howto for Asterisk in "Asterisk, the easy way", Alan Berg blasts away another game review in "Vega Strike", and Jon Peck helps us all with our iPods in "Managing your iPod without iTunes"... and of course much more! Enjoy.

This issue is only available online


Issue 15

Issue 15 of Free Software Magazine brings you another fantastic spread of articles to feast on. Nathan Sanders will have you "Stitching seamless panoramas with Hugin", Alan Berg has some "Fun with free software astronomy" and our favorite tank simulator "Bzflags". Sreejith Nair teaches will teach you to "Control machines with your machine" and Ryan Cartwright will show you how to plot your family tree with GRAMPS in "Roots access". And we have two much-anticipated sequels: Yousef Ourabi concludes his "Secure email servers from scratch with FreeBSD 6" article, and Graham Oakes finishes off "Creating a managed website". And, don't forget... lots more!


Issue 14

Free Software Magazine presents another collection of great articles for its issue 14. Alan Berg takes us soaring with his review "Flying high with FlightGear" and Anthony Taylor shows us some curious Firefox extensions in "Firefox extensions: fun and games". In "Creating a managed website — Part 1" Graham Oakes reveals a lot about content management systems. And, while we're talking about websites, Terry Hancock will "Spiff up your website with KImageMapEditor". As always, there's a lot more too...


Issue 13

Issue 13 of Free Software Magazine brings you a bunch of fine articles covering various aspects of the free software world. We have Richard Fennimore showing us how to spruce up Ubuntu, Robin Monks plays with a few of the best Tetris clones and John Goerzen tells you who to call for your free software phone needs. Plus, Robert Pogson teaches us how to set up class using Edubuntu, LTS and thin clients and much more...


Issue 12

In Issue 12 of Free Software Magazine, Jerome Gotangco guides us through securing email communication and Yousef Ourabi shows us how to harden our Linux servers. Rosalyn Hunter introduces the GNU/Linux CLI for beginners and Terry Hancock explains LyX. We also get to have some fun when Robin Monks reviews some clones of a classic game: Tetris. And more...


Issue 11

Issue 11 of Free Software Magazine is finally here and it's packed with great articles including: our own Tony Mobily interviewing Simon Peter the creator of klik. Robin Monks gets us started with Knoppix and Marco Marongiu takes Synaptic Package Manager out of the box. We also have Alan Berg (with the much required assistance of his son Nelson) fighting his way through the Battle for Wesnoth. And, of course, much more...


Issue 10

In Free Software Magazine's 10th issue Eddy Macnaghten helps to make X a little less unknown and "MC" Brown browses the browsers for Mac OS X. On a more political note: David Sugar talks about how free software is freeing Venezuela and Tom Chance reveals how the internet is beginning to aid in political campaigning. And more...


Issue 9

In Issue 9 of Free Software Magazine Saqib Ali gives the public a lesson in Private Key management and David Horton shows us ways to attract volunteers for free software projects. There's also an intro to RSS news feeds by John Locke, and much, much more.


Issue 8

Issue 8 of Free Software Magazine talks extensively about liberating software - in particular old games and operating systems. This issue also covers free (as in freedom) antivirus software for windows, the change of the market towards a free matter economy, and much more.


Issue 7

Issue 7 of Free Software Magazine gives you advice and assistance on migrating across to free software. Plus in a very special interview our TeX programmer Gianluca Pignalberi talks with the creator of TeX himself, the Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming, Donald E. Knuth.


Issue 6

In this special 84 page issue of Free Software Magazine we paint you the pretty picture that is art and free software. We also have our Editor In Chief Tony Mobily interviewing Miguel De Icaza about MONO and Tom Chance concludes his excellent series on guerrilla marketing.


Issue 5

The June issue of Free Software Magazine tells the real story behind free software and virtual machines. Also in this issue, Saqib Ali presents the news on RSS and David M. Berry and Giles Moss take us for a walk on the Creative Commons.


Issue 4

In this issue of Free Software Magazine we let you in on the dangers of writing and using proprietary software and also how to avoid doing so by using free software alternatives. Plus Marcus McCallion shows us the power of graphic icons and Adam Hyde introduces us to net.labels.


Issue 3

Worlds collide in Issue 3 of Free Software Magazine. In this months issue we cover the pros and cons of using free and proprietary software together. John Locke also relates his story of the collision between his laptop and a cup of coffee and he lets us in on how he recovered from this accident.


Issue 2

In the March issue of Free Software Magazine we report on the on going battle with the ever increasing SPAM and some of the latest things troops are doing to fight it. On another front, Aaron Krowne launches a counter-FUD strike against anti-Wikipedia statements.


Issue 1

This is the first issue of Free Software Magazine. This month we take a closer look at free and proprietary file formats. Chris Karr shows us through Mac OS X and Tom Chance reminds us of the principles that underpin free software.


Issue 0

This is the issue "zero" of Free Software Magazine. It is meant to show the magazine's potential and characteristics. Creating it has required a huge effort from all of us, but we can only be proud of the finished product. Remember: no compositor has touched the magazine at all!



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