You can edit your LaTeX documents with online editors that run across platforms and are device independent. Documents get saved online, thus giving you and other members of a work group easy access from anywhere.

This month, on our double-sided disk we have the latest version of the most popular Ubuntu derivative, Linux Mint, and the up-and-coming, KDE-backed neon.

Flash chips are now used as storage devices for operating systems. MultiSystem lets you pack as many operating systems as you want on a USB stick.

The moreutils package expands the standard tools for the shell with useful and sometimes exotic tools.

There is hardly a website out there that doesn't have advertisements and trackers. Some sites are practically flooded with them. Ad blockers like uBlock Origin can be used as effective countermeasures.

The title of this issue's Editorial section is a shameless rip-off of a section that used to run in Omni, the influential and very cool 80s magazine of "Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy." The section in Omni talked about advances in science and technology and where they would lead us. The title played on the actual verbal tense – the word "will" was used a lot in the articles, and the fact that, well, it was about the future.

This month, on our double-sided disk, we have the newest version of Ubuntu, 16.10 "Yakkety Yak." It comes with important and exciting changes you won't want to miss.

It’s Linux’s 25th birthday and issue 30 of Ubuntu User. Time to reminisce.

This month we bring to you something special: an encyclopedic DVD with 3,000 pages of practical Ubuntu knowledge.

The big news of the season is Microsoft cuddling up to Linux. But, how sincere is all this love really?