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Once again — with remarkable clarity — we peer into our crystal ball and pick which companies in and around open source are going to grab your attention in 2009.

As the year winds down we take one last look back at 2008 with the very best of LinuxMagazine.com writing.

Collecting the best system administration articles posted to Linux Magazine in 2008.

Software developers take note: We look back at 2008 and select the best Linux Magazine features of the year.

Who knows what the future will hold? Well, heaven knows we don’t or we’d have already won the lottery a few times and retired to a private island somewhere. However, we can look at the past to make a few reasonable predictions– such as the companies in the free and open source software community that are going to have a major impact on the market in 2008.

The holidays are fast approaching, and that means it’s swag time, and this year there’s plenty of tech goodies and geekish gifts to put on your list or buy for your friends and family. From inexpensive, but nifty, gadgets to high-dollar top-of-the-line tech, we’ve got a shopping list that will satisfy the most discriminating shopper.

Since their debut in March 2001, Blade Servers have generated a ton of interest from enterprise IT departments. And a slew of misconceptions. We separate the truth from reality.

Spy on spyware, GCC goes bump, and KDE is AOK.

CPUBuilders

Mac OS X Panther Server

You know Linux is easy to run and is as stable as houses. I know that, too. But does your friend Joe Windows know it? Chances are he doesn’t.

I’ve always been, well, skeptical about the Linux desktop. Now, I use one myself, KDE on top of SuSE Linux 8, thank you very much, but then I know Linux.

Walmart.com $199 PC

LindowsOS 3.0: Too Diluted

Celestix FV930: Awesome Appliance

SuSE’s Openexchange Server

We’re Clockin’ In Two By 2.0

Prints Softly, Carries A Full Ream

ViewSonic’s Phattest Thin Panel

Sun LX50

The Best of All Possible Red Hats?

Orinoco’s Ap-200 WAP

JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA 2.6

HP Secure OS for Linux

Rogue Wave SourcePro C++

Dell PowerEdge 2650

PowerBook G4 Titanium

Kylix 2

What do you do when your system doesn’t boot? If you happen to have disks provided by a distribution vendor, then you can probably boot from them; however, you can often only use them to reinstall the operating system, not repair your system.

Ximian Desktop: a Good Start

Welcome to our newest feature in Linux Magazine, the Project of the Month. If you’ve ever visited Freshmeat (http:// freshmeat.net) or SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net), the open source world’s two most popular software directories, you know that there are simply too many interesting projects to keep an eye on. Each month we will highlight one open source project selected by our editors.

CodeWeaver CrossOver Plug-In

Sharp’s Zaurus Intrigues

Linux and Open Source have become a key part of Hewlett-Packard’s market strategy. HP’s chairman, Carly Fiorina, tells us why.

InterJak 200 Connects

ASL Marquis K-121S

March Networks SME Server 5

Avocent DS1800

Yellow Dog Linux 2.0

IBM’s ThinkPad is Fast, Pricey

Red Hat Workstation Not So Deluxe

Power Your Site with Dell’s PowerApp.web 120

IBM Small Business Suite

Agenda Computing VR3

HP’s Beefy NetServer E800 Shines

Cobalt’s Perfect Qube 3 Professional

Caldera’s Quick Start to Linux

GreatBridge PostgreSQL 7.0.3

Compaq ProLiant DL320 and DL360 Servers

Microlite BackupEDGE 7

Security for Your System

Lineo’s Embedix SDK 1.2: Great for PDAs

IBM’s Intellistation E Pro 3D a Winner

NetMAX Cures Your VPN Blues

SGI 330 Visual Workstation Packs a Punch

Learn How to speak Beginning PHP4

IBM ThinkPad A20p: Linux To Go

Save Code with Perforce SCCS

Protect Yourself with Gateway Guardian

Getting to Know MySQL & mSQL

Thinhardware Model A1 and A2 Servers

Lexmark Z32 and Z52 Make Printing Easy

Celestix Aries Server: Small and Powerful

NeTraverse Win4Lin 1.0 Solves Format Problems

Improve Your Desktop with KDE2

Be Seen With Axis 2120 Network Camera

Sysadmins, Get Inside Linux!

WebTrends Tracks Usage Well

SuSE 7.0 Professional Worth a Try

3D Blaster Annihilator 2 Ultra

Programming Perl: A Bigger, Better Camel Book

Kondara MNU/Linux 2000: Multilingual Linux

Voodoo5 5500 Video Card

Using Samba

Corel Photo-Paint 9

Accelerated-X Display Server 5.0.2

InstallShield a Work in Progress

UPSes Provide Power in a Pinch

Seagate’s Cheetah is Speedy

PHP: Essentially Using Data

PartitionMagic 5.01: A Great Divide

StarOffice 5.2 is a Stellar Suite

PHP WebLog 0.3.0 Means Easy News

Comanche Helps Apache Serve

Mandrake 7.1: The Magic is Back

The Linux market is exploding with all kinds of great new (and old) products. We decided it was time to round up our editors and pick our favorites. Here are the results.

Helix GNOME Preview 2

PHP: Essentially Using Data

ApplixWare 5.0 is Suite

StarOffice 5.2 is a Stellar Suite

PHP WebLog 0.3.0 Means Easy News

CodeWizard 3.1 is Spellbinding

PartitionMagic 5.01: A Great Divide

The Dynamic DuOS Addendum

Technauts’ eServer Delivers

Free (and Good) Pascal 0.99.14

KDE Made Practically Easy

Castlewood ORB Drive

Getting Virtual with VMware 2.0

There are a lot of great Linux Web sites out there, but a few of them rise above the crowd. Whether you’re looking for the latest software or a Linux-related job, these are the sites you’ll want to check out.

Yamaha’s Killer CRW8424 CD-RW Drive

You can add several programs to your GNOME panel without making it look cluttered by putting the additions into a drawer. Right-click on the panel and select “Add drawer.” Now you can drag and drop programs to the open spot on the drawer to add them and select an icon that will be displayed on the drawer. You can then open or close the drawer, and run programs from it by clicking on their icons.

GigaDrive 20: At Your Service

Blender 3.0: Blending 3D with Linux

NEdit 5.1.1 Makes Editing Nice

Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 (Beta)

VXA-1 Tape Drive: Swift, Silent Backups

Mandrake 7.0: C’est Si Bon!

Drive Image Pro 3.01

Caldera Systems OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4

You can use KDE’s Disk Navigator to quickly access directories through either its file manager (KFM) or an X terminal window. Open the “K” menu and place your mouse on the “Disk Navigator” entry. This will automatically open the main “Disk Navigator” menu, which you can then use to find the directory of interest. Once you locate the directory, put your mouse on the directory name to open its submenu and display the “Open Folder” item. If you click on the “Open Folder” entry with the left mouse button, a new copy of KFM will run and open to that directory. Holding the Shift key down while you click will instead make an X terminal open at the selected directory.

The Concise Guide to XFree86

Ht://Dig 3.1.4: Your Web Gopher

Cybernet Systems NetMAX Pro 2.2

TurboLinux TurboCluster 4.0

EiC version 4.2.1

Microsoft Intellimouse

Lotus Domino for Linux

PerfectBACKUP+

CSVTech’s EZHTML

Siemens Pocket Reader

Optiquest Q71 Monitor

HylaFax

50 hackers and suits who are helping to shape the emerging Linux community.

Richard M. Stallman, the Founding Father of Free Software, discusses the Free Software movement and its political philosophy.