Issue #166 / Sep 2014

Sys admin columnist Charly never takes a vacation from the Internet. A beach bar with WiFi is quickly found, but it runs a forced proxy, which thinks that the SSH port (22) is in league with the devil and blocks the connection. Time to drill a tunnel.

The new networkd component of the systemd project supports basic network configuration. Despite its early stage of development, one thing is clear: This is a daemon with brains.

Developers fed up with cryptic Makefiles should take a look at the new Meson build system, which is simple to operate, offers scripting capabilities, integrates external test tools, and supports Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

The most fundamental tool needed to administer a cluster is a parallel shell, which allows you to run the same command on a series of nodes. In this article, we look at pdsh.

Paperwork was developed to manage the paperless office – a dream as old as desktop PCs.

Autojump is a mature and widely available command-line tool for navigating your directory structure. We show you how it works.

Write and publish ebooks with the GitBook software and publishing platform.

If you are looking off the beaten Ubuntu and Debian paths for a fast, multimedia distro with a Gnome 3 desktop, take a closer look at Fedora-based Chapeau Linux.

"maddog" looks at some of Linaro's efforts to improve GNU/Linux performance on ARM architectures.

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