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Say “Gentoo” and most people think of a source code based DIY distro. However, this is a pre-built desktop system that comes as 3.4GB disk image. Michael Reed takes it for a spin…

As promised, Jon Masters follows up his look back at 2011, with a look ahead at what 2012 holds for Linux kernel development…

If you can set up a Linux box with Apache, with a bit of fettling you can use eyeOS to create your own personalised cloud desktop. Michael Reed reviews eyeOS version 2.5…

Is it still too soon? Simon Brew talks about Steve Jobs, Richard Stallman and the need to get a realistic debate going. But first, Simon Cowell...

This month Jon Masters takes a break from looking at the very latest developments in the Linux kernel community, to bring two New Year special editions of his column. We start with a look back at 2011 (with a look into the future to follow)...

openSUSE community manager Jos discusses the paradigm shift in UIs brought on my the mobile computing revolution…

Changes to the behaviour of interfaces don’t always go down well, but are sometimes a good thing, says Richard Hillesley

Want to watch a Blu-ray on your PC? That’ll be £50 please. Simon, for one, is fed up of this game. Join him as he looks at one of the many wheezes the proprietary software and hardware industry are still trying to pull…

Swayam Prakasha explores and explains one of the most important methodologies in modern software development…

If necessity is the mother of invention, patents are its delinquent offspring, providing stumbling blocks to innovation and progress, inhibiting the free exchange of ideas, and restricting our knowledge of how things work, says Richard Hillesley…

With Sabayon 7, you not only have just about every desktop environments available and cutting edge features, but can also boot it into a top-notch media centre environment all off the Live CD…

Take your PC back to 1985 with a cool selection of tools and tricks that build a fully functioning desktop computer on the console!

Rory MacDonald sits down with Mozilla’s Pascal Finette, former head of Mozilla Labs and now the man behind Mozilla’s new WebFWD initiative, an accelerator programme for exciting open source projects…

Canonical’s reshaping of Ubuntu is complete, but does 11.10 live up to the hype? Russell Barnes takes a look at the 15th iteration, Oneiric Ocelot, probably the only distro to be loved and loathed in near equal measure…

openSUSE community manager, Jos Poortvliet, shares his thoughts on the recent creation of Tizen and offers a new home for the MeeGo project…

As is the case every month, Jon Masters looks at the latest developments in the Linux kernel community, including work on new architecture and ABI support, not to mention Kernel.org disruptions…

Linux User talks to Canonical’s Gerry Carr to get the full low-down on Ubuntu 110.10 ‘Oneric Ocelot’ ahead of its 13th October launch…

How’s your French? If you’re fluent enough, you could help translate the seminal Debian book “Cahiers de l’Admin Debian Squeeze” and earn yourself dinner with the authors…

Software patents are a racket for the protection of incumbent cartels and monopolies against innovation and competition, says Richard Hillesley

Because Linux is free software and belongs to no-one, it is often assumed that Linux is “surrounded by legal uncertainties,” but Linux is no more or less prone to legal uncertainties than any other software. Richard Hillesley looks at the latest attempt to cast fear, uncertainty and doubt around the GPL and the Linux kernel…