Issue01 / Editorial

The big news this month is the announcement from Dell that they will ship both desktop and laptop machines with Ubuntu pre-installed.

You may say "It's only one company," but correct me if I am wrong, (and I'm sure you will), but Microsoft began their rise to dominance from just one deal with IBM. And if Microsoft can do it, we can do it... and better!

I also want to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the Ubuntu community who helped make the full circle pilot issue such a roaring success! I wish I could name you all one by one but it'd take up the entire issue!

Within one week we had over 25,000 downloads! As I write this editorial we are heading for the 55,000 mark. Within days of releasing issue #0 we had a flood of emails from volunteers wanting to translate full circle.

As I write this we have six translations for download now with several more on the way. If you would like to translate this magazine into your native language please visit our wiki translation page, read the guidelines, and get to it!

If family history is your thing then we have a special treat for you with a review of GRAMPS - the Linux genealogy software - next month we hope to have an exclusive interview with its creator.

Maybe you're more of the DIY type? In our How-To's this month we have the in's and out's of those directories are on your hard drive, the first in my series of Scribus tutorials, an introduction to MythTV and lots of other good stuff.

I hope you enjoy this first issue and remember; myself and the team are all on our website forum at www.fullcirclemagazine.org and also on irc, channel #fullcirclemagazine on the irc.freenode.org server. Come say hello!

All the best,

Ronnie