Issue #138 / May 2012

SERVICE: May 2012: DVD Inlay

Issue #138
This month's CD comes with the Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" LXDE edition....

SERVICE: Welcome

Editorial

“Making revolution is not a crime!” This catchy turn of phrase is often attributed to Jian Qing, otherwise known as Madame Mao, otherwise known as one of the notorious Gang of Four – the group of former Chinese leaders who stood trial in 1980 for launching the devastating and discredited Cultural Revolution in China.

SERVICE: Table of Contents: 138

In the Clouds
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SERVICE: On the CD: Linux Mint 12

This month's CD comes with the Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" LXDE edition. 

NEWS: Tech Tools

TeamDrive 3.0 Released for Android and iOS

JetBrains Releases TeamCity 7.0

AMD Announces Radeon HD 7870 and 7850

Altair Launches New HPC Tools

GFI Releases WebMonitor 2012

KNOW-HOW: Kexi vs. Glom

Kexi and Glom – lean database tools compared

Kexi and Glom aim to create databases with little overhead. We compare the power of these two tools.

SYSADMIN: Charly's Column: Weather Page

The sys admin’s daily grind: Charly’s weather report page

To find out what the weather is like, sys admin columnist Charly Kühnast no longer needs to go outdoors get wet, blown away, frozen to death, or sunburned.

SYSADMIN: Security Lessons: Cloud Security

Tools for auditing and securing cloud systems

Tools like OpenSCAP and Aqueduct can make life much easier when implementing cloud security standards.

COMMUNITY: Doghouse: Accessibility

Community Notebook

Designing computers for everyone: maddog considers some computer accessibility issues.

COMMUNITY: Kernel News

Disposition of Binary-Only Modules; Seeking kernel.org Features; Remounting Oddities; PohmelFS Rewritten from Scratch; Device Isolation Groups

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.