Features

Documenting the OpenDocument Format An Interview with Jean Hollis Weber

We talk with Jean Hollis Weber, a volunteer with ODFAuthors, the LibreOffice Documentation team, and the Friends of OpenDocument Inc.

Firefox Extensions Getting More from Firefox

Firefox features many high-quality extensions to help improve productivity, protect your privacy, and more.

HTML5 Offline Offline-capable applications with HTML5

An offline cache in your browser and a bit of HTML5 acrobatics combine for interactive web applications that keep working even when the Internet connection breaks down.

Potlatch 2: OpenStreetMap Editor Fast Mapping: Editing OpenStreetMap with Potlatch 2

If you need a tool to make minor modifications in OpenStreetMap, Potlatch 2 is a useful choice as a fast and easy-to-use editor.

Bitcoin Basics Bitcoin Digital Currency

Bitcoin is a decentralized virtual currency, popular with hackers and the open source community. We’ll explain how the money is created and how it works.

Meet Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton Meeting the Baker

After six years of development, founder Eben Upton and the other members of the Raspberry Pi Foundation are finally seeing the results of their efforts.

Exploring Red Hat’s Flavor Enhancer SPICE

Red Hat peps up performance of multimedia applications on remote desktops with SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments).

Avoiding Eye Strain Color Temperature Tools

Do you have problems getting to sleep after a late night computer session? Does the monitor brightness hurt your eyes? Several Linux tools are available that could help with these problems.

Discovering the New Gnome Gnome starts to reinvent itself, cautiously

The last few years have been troubled for the Gnome Project. Once a premier desktop environment for Linux, it has seen its market share diminish amid user dissatisfaction over Gnome 3 and accusations that the project was ignoring users. Yet, over the last six months, something important has been happening: Slowly and quietly, the members of Gnome have started trying to turn the situation around.

IPv6 Penetration Testing Pen testing on IPv6 networks: In Through the Back Door

If you have enabled IPv6 on your network without considering basic security issues, you might have opened up a hole for attackers. In this article, we demonstrate a successful attack on a server via IPv6 and explain how the popular security tools handle IPv6.