Issue #146 / Jan 2013

The auditd tool can provide system logging capabilities to satisfy even the most paranoid users.

Armed with a Chinese guillotine and a scanner with an automatic document feeder, Mike Schilli gives his books some special treatment, courtesy of Google Drive, which offers 5GB of storage space – room enough to start an online PDF collection.

Starting a script on a Linux server with just a few mouse clicks sounds more complicated than it really is. If you want to create attractive and interactive dialogs for your desktop users, all you need is a small utility called SSH and a little Bash know-how.

Beyond flashing web emoticons, animated gif images can present trends that catch your eye in system monitoring.

Colonizing new territory, processing raw materials, and trading goods are ingredients for popular strategy games. This genre is served on Linux by the free Unknown Horizons project.

Once you've mastered the everyday commands for manipulating files, you might want to do more. We show you some powerful commands for advanced file management.

Start-ups, resource-poor enterprises, and nimble organizations turn to Free and Open Source Software to help solve their business problems.

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

Even as the tech world works to figure out just what to do with the potential of cloud computing and big data, along comes a new bit of technology fueled by open source software: software-defined networks.