Issue #145 / Dec 2012

Linux offers a variety of tools for shutting down systems and processes. We describe some important commands.

With Free Software, some ingenuity, and a lot of drive, a friend brings knowledge, technology, and hope to a “disadvantaged” corner of his world.

Security and the Open Cloud were featured at the most recent LinuxCon event.

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

Could Mozilla’s announcement of the Boot to Gecko roadmap, along with the continued development of other web-based operating systems, make the Linux distro you’re running less important than the desktop environment?