Issue #192 / Nov 2016

Chroot lets you run a largely autonomous guest system on a computer, without the need to emulate hardware. The LXC container management tool refines this technique with a comprehensive range of additional functions.

Most sys admins use netstat to find out about the status of network sockets, but Charly knows a good shortcut.

With the pointers and useful tips in this article, you can turn Emacs into a powerful writing environment.

PGP/GnuPG is becoming increasingly popular, thanks to digital crime and government surveillance. We take a look behind the scenes and show how you can keep your keyring current and valid.

Maperitive helps users create high-quality maps with additional information from OpenStreetMap data.

Regularly switching log files keeps them from filling up the filesystem, but the logrotate tool can do much more.

In which our hero relates a "True Tail" where lack of testing almost created a divorce.

The Linux community gathered at LinuxCon NA 2016 in Toronto to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Linux.

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