Special Editions

Did you miss out on buying the original Perl Powerhouse special at the newsstand? No problem, we've re-published it! Here's the 2nd edition of Linux Magazine's Special on Perl. This edition includes a DVD with the all new Fedora 18.

Power up your Perl Productivity! New to Perl? Check out our comprehensive introduction by Perl expert Randal L. Schwartz. Perlmeister Mike Schilli explains how to optimize and debug your Perl scripts, then he'll help you advance your Perl know-how with 11 cool Perl projects.

On the DVD: Fedora 18

Discover the Language of the Linux Experts

Did you miss out on buying the 2nd edition Linux Shell Handbook at the news stand? No problem, we've re-published it! Here's the 3rd edition of Linux Magazine's Special on the Shell. This edition includes a DVD with the all new Knoppix 7.0.2.

Think like the experts:

The powerful Bash shell provides a comprehensive collection of utilities for configuring and troubleshooting Linux systems.

On the DVD: Knoppix 7.0.2 (The world's greatest Live distro!)

Linux Magazine Special #11 - Google Special

The all-new Google Special includes a look into Google's new social networking service Google+. It explores the innovative and time-saving collection of online tools such as Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google geolocation and mapping, Google photo tools, and Google web tools. Including a free CD of Peppermint Two, a Linux distro which integrates seamlessly with web apps.

Do you take care of a network – large or small? Are you the one the users call when they have problems with email or can’t reach a website? Are you embroiled in questions of how to subdivide and when to virtualize? Do you keep watch over a server farm? Do you patrol the perimeter, managing firewall configurations and looking for gaps that would let an intruder inside? Are you the one who answers to the suits, bridging the technical divide between the server room and the board room with practical advice on where to go and how to grow in the changing world of information technology?