Issue #156 / Nov 2013

We’re all working on building the big Internet future – where we can dream big dreams and be more than we can be; where we all know each other and free ideas flow like champagne, and we have powers that an earlier generation would have thought were magic. We turn our wide, hungry, excited eyes to the future. We are the future. We dream, and we are struck with awe at the future we are building…

This month's DVD features two great distributions, Fedora 19 Security Spin and Kali Linux.

The ARM architecture has shaped modern computer history, and with the rise of mobile computing, ARM is more important than ever. We take a look at the ARM architecture and where it might be heading.

If you're looking for a secure and portable backup technique, try combining the trusty command-line utility Duplicity with an available cloud account.

Microsoft has an entire portfolio of pre-built virtual machines, all of them Linux systems, designed to run on the Windows Azure cloud service.

An Italian company is making sure Microsoft doesn't sleep through the hype concerning OpenStack. Learn about the recent work on integrating OpenStack with Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.

The development paths of OpenOffice and LibreOffice parted in 2010. Which of the two office suites is leading the way?

SysV init was formerly the sole candidate for starting processes on Linux, but today, a tech-savvy generation of init systems is waiting in the starting blocks.