Xfce is a light and flexible desktop alternative. We took a look at what’s coming with the latest version.

Shopping for a PHP integrated development environment? We test drive a few of the leading candidates.

In this month’s Projects on the Move, we observe the battle between man and (chess) machine and check out the free Colonization clone. Also in this issue, tools for Linux users who find themselves facing the Windows prompt.

Linux has had the ability to display PDF documents for many years, but it lacked an editing tool until now: enter Cabaret Stage.

• Backup & Recovery
• The Brand Gap
• Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8

In preparation for the first stable version, the WINE project has now frozen the current state of development ("Code Freeze").

Wine, the Windows API for Linux is moving towards the first stable version, 1.0, in its history of 15 years of development.

The Linux Foundation has taken a clear position on the acceptance of Microsoft's OpenXML format as an international ISO standard. The Foundation recommends that standardization committees in the countries involved in the process say "No" to the application.