Issue #137 / Apr 2012

Trademarks receive much less media attention than patents or copyrights – at least in open source circles – but it looks like the trademark buzz might be heating up again with the recent
news that a company in China called Proview owns the name “iPad” and is preparing to throw down with Apple over the use of it. The fact that iPads are actually made in China adds urgency to this problem, with the company threatening to stop all exports until Apple settles.

This month’s Linux Magazine DVD is the brand new Knoppix 7.0 Live distro in 32- and 64-bit options.

Programs aren’t as smart as humans when it comes to interpreting the meaning of web information. If you want to maximize your search rank, you might want to dress up your HTML documents with microformats and microdata.

After toiling away to create a small but exclusive website, Charly wanted to run a security scanner against it to check for vulnerabilities. The choice of tools is enormous, but Charly chose w3af.

We look at some new approaches to certificate verification.

maddog imagines what it would be like to own a Microsoft-certified toilet.

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