Issue #136 / Mar 2012

Street battles rage in the Middle East, and elsewhere around the planet, movements flash and form through the power and immediacy of the information highway. The ability of the Internet to rally political forces and circumvent censorship has been a major theme in recent years.

This month’s Linux Magazine DVD brings you the latest release of the Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS).

Whether you’re the sys admin of a home network or of a company-wide network of dozens or even hundreds of machines, some basic principles of debugging will come in handy.

To celebrate 10 years of his column, Charly sets up a sensitive detector that measures the cosmic background radiation of the Internet.

Attackers impose a high price on your limited resources. We look at some ways to separate the good from the bad.

With the announcement of another export quota, maddog laments the unreadiness of nations who allow themselves to fall prey to national monopolies. 

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