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by Russell Barnes
Linux User celebrates it’s 100th issue milestone with its biggest and best issue yet! Our special ‘Ultimate Linux Pack’ special issue includes two DVDs packed to the rafters with 10 distros, 100 pages of expertly crafted tutorials and much more besides. We’re also very proud to announce that we enrolled the help of a special guest editor to help us celebrate…

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by Jon Masters
To help celebrate Linux User’s landmark 100th issue which goes on sale tomorrow, celebrated Linux Kernel contributor, Jon Masters, recounts some of the biggest developments in the Linux Kernel over the magazine’s last 100 issues…

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by Rory MacDonald
Engineers at Facebook have launched the Open Compute Project, a new initiative to share state-of-the-art plans for datacentre design. Rory MacDonald investigates…

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Opinion
by Jos Poortvliet
To celebrate the 100th issue of Linux User & Developer, Jos Poortvliet Takes a look into his crystal ball to make a prediction about the future of open source….

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by Rory MacDonald
Novell has completed a final deal, selling the company, including its SUSE Linux business, to Attachmate for $2.2bn. US Jobs Axed as SUSE Linux Moved Back to German HQ…

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Opinion
by Simon Brew
We’re celebrating the impending release of issue 100 this week. Kicking off the celebration is previous Linux User editor, Simon Brew who says we shouldn’t be afraid of opening our wallet for open source, but we should fight hammer and tongs to ensure freedom is kept at its core…

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Brian ‘Krow’ Aker, MySQL’s former director of architecture, brings us up to speed on the first stable GA release from the Drizzle database project designed for web applications and cloud computing…

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Imagine Publishing, the specialist publisher behind Linux User, releases a new ebook on Kindle Store to help new iPad users…

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by Rory MacDonald
Linux giant turns increasingly competitive to protect profits. Rory MacDonald investigates…

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Opinion
by Jos Poortvliet
This month openSUSE community manager Jos Poortvliet looks back at the launch of openSUSE 11.4, reveals some amazing launch numbers and more besides…

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Opinion
by Simon Brew
Why do we make things difficult for ourselves when promoting alternative software and services, wonders Simon Brew…

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Opinion
by Richard Hillesley
The necessity for open and unencumbered standards is an unending issue for open and closed software. Richard Hillesley looks at the reasons why open standards are always a good idea…

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