This month we have put together acomplete collection of last year’sLinux Magazines in high resolution

format. Although we have released thesearticles for download in the archive sec-tion of the website at http://www.linux-magazine.com, they have alwaysbeen at a resolution which allows every-one to download.

After many requests, we are nowreleasing the articles in a high resolutionPDF format so you can clearly see thescreenshots and images for each article.

One of the advantages of having infor-mation in a digital format is the ability tosearch. For this reason we have includedthe Java applet DocSearcher as a tool onthe disc. This utility can search throughthe PDF files to find any topic covered.

December 2002 / January 2003At the start of the year, we chose to coverintegrating Linux and Windows. Thisinvolved VMware and Win4Lin as wellas Cygwin and serial connections. Forfun, we reviewed MS Windows XP andthe much publicized United Linux. In theknow-how section, we examined thestream editor, sed along with theSylpheed mail client.

Charly’s column guided us throughhow to stress a system before it is putinto production and Linklint let us testwebsite links automatically. Brave GnuWorld covered the monthly happeningsfor the Gnu project with topics rangingfrom Voice over IP to software patents.

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February 2003Following all the virus attacksthat were in the news, we concen-trated on Security features. SE

Linux and Rule Set Based AccessControl helped to protect your data.

The reviews section hit the seriousreadership with the Cache5 database andthe home readers with graphical games.

For the know-how section we gave youthe information about fstab and how sys-tems initialize. SysAdmin examineddiskless clients, while programminglooked at automated tools to ensurequality code. KTools handled the admin-istration of users for KDE computers.

March 2003Catering to your demands, we focusedon networking. Step-by-step guidesshowed you how to configure Red Hatand Suse. We also covered Sambashares, domains and authentication. Thereviews section looked at the Bochs PCemulator and Crossover Office.

The programming section started aseries on Coin 3D to produce 3D worldsand took an interesting diversion into theLinuxBIOS arena. Debian help was pro-vided in the Dr. Linux section and we didnot forget a newsticker reader for KDE.

Linux Magazine DVDApril 2003While we sheltered from the rain show-ers, we decided to tackle the big issuesand looked at Linux alternatives toMicrosoft Exchange. This featured a fullcomparison and individual reviews ofthe latest products, all aiming to replaceExchange on a nearby server. We tookfirst looks at the new LindowsOS 3.0 dis-tribution and showed you how to runmultiple distributions on one box.

Another tutorial showed us how tomake multiboot CDs to launch ourfavorite Floppy images. The Linux Usersection gave us fun reasons to use Linuxsuch as Coolicon, Chain Reaction and aCD indexer for all of our MP3 discs,Yammi. Now, a year later, we still getfeed back from those who have grown tolove it.

May 2003For this issue, we had been fortunateenough to get the new versions of KDEand GNOME. This meant our featurewas a head to head comparison. Wetested and trialed them over their vari-ous parts such as file managers andapplications. Just to cover all our read-ers, we included articles on WindowMaker and Blackbox.

Figure 1: The easy-to-use HTML interface for the DVD showing the files from the October issue.

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The Linux labs tested theTransmeta SDK, and we gaveyou the inside knowledge onDevFS. Revision control wascovered with OpenOffice revi-sion and Subversion.

June 2003June featured Office power.This targeted on using officesuites and scripting to theirfull potential. Apart fromOpenOffice, Thinkfree Officeand Text Maker were coveredwith a look at desktop spe-cific distributions.

The SysAdmin section hadthe Zebra routing softwarewhile the programming area saw an arti-cle on making the debugging ofprograms less painful. Our commandline section dealt with environmentalvariables and an easy tutorial showed ushow to configure NTP so our systemclocks are always accurate.

July 2003As a cover story, the July issue centeredon Linux and PDA devices. This lookedat the new environments that were avail-able and connectivity to your desktop.The main article took a tour arounddesktop organizers and PIMs.

In the reviews section, in conjunctionwith our colleagues at Tom’s HardwareGuide, we put the AMD Opteron throughthe Linux labs test facilities. We also cov-ered the Intel C compiler. The mostpopular articles from feedback wereevenly split between the Snort IDS,XEphem the star chart program, and theEclipse programming system.

August 2003The summer months are usually a timeto relax and do all those jobs you havebeen saving. With this in mind wefocused on security and protecting yourdata. This covered important topics suchas hardening systems, firewalls, spamcontrol, and filesystem repair.

The popular articles were a littlelighter with OCR under Linux and query-ing search engines from the commandline. For fun, we also started a program-ming series on how to write a Linuxplatform game. For the admins, we setup a software RAID system.

The popular articles cov-ered Lego robots and how todo a key signing party withGnuPG. Ripping and encod-ing a CD was covered withGrip, while forensic analysisof a hacked machine wastaken care of with Sleuthkit.

November 2003The cover story concentratedon image processing, cover-ing a range of viewers, andtutorials for photo editing,along with a Gimp workshop.In time for Christmas, wereviewed the latest LinuxPDA devices and Dasher, a

keyboardless input mechanism.One of the most requested articles was

on the simple method of scripting withDCOP for controlling KDE. This issuesaw the start of the popular AdminWorkshop which started with monitor-ing tools. On a lighter note we foundtime to look at a few KDE games and thevideo editing software MainActor 5.

December 2003We ended the year with articles on usingLinux for Audio. In this we coveredSweep for audio processing and thesequencer MusE. A guide on NoteEdithelped to set up virtual instruments.Gimp was examined for the new majorversion change to 2.0 with a look at thefeatures in the latest developers’ version.

On a more technical side, we looked atcreating a finger server and making Zopeand LDAP cooperate. One of the mostrequested articles was on Networkingbasics to explain the fundamentals andshow you how to actually set up a sys-tem for yourself. ■

The DocSearcher Java applet searches thewhole collection of PDF files from 2003. Sim-ply enter your search string and press[Enter]. If you prefix the search string with aminus sign (-), the tool will find only docu-ments that do not contain the string. If youonly know part of the string, use the * wild-card to leave out the remainder of the string.The search results are returned as a list,sorted by month.You can click on the files(just like in a browser).This will launchacroread to display the PDF file by default.You can change the default by selecting

Tools / Settings / Document Settings, then theDocument Handler for pdf, and using Edit tochange the setting.DocSearcher can do more: It is a searchmachine that allows you to search your ownfiles. It uses the Open Source Lucene and POIApache libraries, as well as PDF box. Doc-Searcher searches HTML, MS Word, MS Excel,RTF, PDF, Open Office (and Star Office), aswell as Text documents.For more information on Lucene, visit thehomepage at http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/.

2003 article archive made searchable

Figure 2: Using the Java tool DocSearcher to find articles.

September 2003As the academic year started, we lookedat using Linux for videos. An excellentoverview set out the level of support forhandling films. The most popular articleproved to be the KDE tips and tricksreport written by the actual KDE devel-opers. The reviews section looked at theIntrusion Detection System, Hogwashand Suse Linux Desktop.

Firewalling with IPtables ensuredsecurity was still a major focus. On thetechnical side, we optimized programsfor SSE2-capable processors. You couldalso spend your time making a rescuedisk with the in depth guide.

October 2003Looking back at October gives the viewthat it was the start of a tutorials season.Tutorials sprang up everywhere rangingfrom writing a Wiki project to shareinformation on your intranet, using PHPscripting for web forms, creating a musicjukebox with Perl, and solving broad-band problems.