Issue #148 / Mar 2013

The very day this magazine goes to print, Fedora 18 is enjoying its official release. I have watched the first official reviews come online gradually over the course of the day, as they always do with such events. The extensive Linux bog and tweet engine is always waiting for the next big topic, and it is always ready to lend some content space for anything new.

Add natural language processing to your own applications with Maluuba's Natural Language API (nAPI)

The UEFI boot specification offers new capabilities – and new headaches – if you aren't ready for it. Learn how one Linux user came to a truce with the new sheriff.

Although developed for editing individual images, GIMP has everything you need to create perfect animations via plugins and scripts.

The Mumble server lets you hear your multiplayer game opponents over VoIP, freeing you from inconvenient text chat during game play.

Build a custom Live boot image with Arch Linux and Archiso.

Script-friendly ifdata from the Moreutils package delivers absolutely precise network interface status information, with no need to extract individual values.

Although performance differences between scripting languages and classic compiled languages are hardly significant, one disadvantage of scripting languages was that you always had to install an interpreter first. Tclkit lifts this burden.