There were a lot of entries for this book, but unfortunately there can only be one winner...

Congratulations Kevin MacKenzie of Ontario Canada!

Kevin has won a copy of Perl Best Practices.

Thanks to all who entered.

Thanks also go to O'Reilly for providing this great prize.

Due to a few small problems we had two winners for our last book competition. O'Reilly have generously agreed to providing two prizes.

Congratulations go to:

Greg Lee of Clive, New Zealand

and

Matthew Jones of Knoxville, TN, USA!

They have both won a copy of Write Portable Code.

Thanks to all who entered.

Free Software Magazine is all about Free Software. We have published more than 250 articles, ALL under free licenses.

Our web site has matured and is achieving a large amount of traffic, and the magazine is reaching a very large audience: now, it's time for us to decide our marketing strategy for selling ads.

We believe that it is the community who should benefit from the ads—as well as the magazine. So, this is our offer to the free software community: we will pay 20% commission for every ad sold to a company by ANY member of the free software community. Here are the simple rules:

Do you want to write for Free Software Magazine?

At Free Software Magazine, we are always looking for new authors and wenow pay for articles (in books) thanks to our sponsors!

At the moment, we are looking for user-orientated articles. Specifically, we are looking for entry level articles on Linux and major GNU/Linux distros like “Ubuntu”.

The articles will need to be very easy to follow. Something your mother would understand without too much effort (even if she doesn’t work as a software engineer for IBM...).

Last week’s winner Rhys Moyne has sent us his thanks. And here’s a picture...

Well done Rhys, we hope you enjoy it.

We had lots of entries, but unfortunately there can only be one winner...

Congratulations Stefan Köhn of Germany!

Stefan has won a copy of Deploying OpenLDAP.

Thanks to all who entered.

Thanks also go to Apress for providing this great prize.

We had lots of entries, but unfortunately there can be only one winner...

Congratulations Rhys Moyne of South Australia!

Rhys has won a copy of Open Sources 2.0 The Continuing Evolution.

Thanks go to all who entered and to O'Reilly for providing this fantastic prize.

We recently heard from Hugo Morales, one of our previous book competition winners.

He wanted us to know he was very happy with the magazine and to thank us for his prize—a copy of Ending Spam by Jonathan A. Zdziarski.

Here’s a photo he sent in:

Thanks and congratulations Hugo.

I’ve often lamented the sad fact that there is not as much attention paid to GNU game development as there should be. It’s hard to be a diehard GNU/Linux user who is also into gaming. Though we look forward to days when more high profile games will be targeted at the GNU/Linux platform, it’s nice to know that there are folks out there trying to ease the transition. This blog from Joystiq discusses the options for the GNU gamer and introduces crossover technologies like Wine and Cedega.

This week we are giving away a copy of Moving to Linux_ by Marcel Gagne_.

All you need to do to enter is:

1) read our terms and conditions

2) Answer this question:

What ad is on page 23 of the full colour, high res version of issue 9 of FSM?

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Entries open on the 28th of November 2005 and close on the 2nd of December 2005.