Issue #159 / Feb 2014

Kurt provides some tips and recommends some tools to help you detect signs of network intrusion and data corruption.

After several years of development work, version 2.0 of the SDL library was released in August 2013. Despite its many innovations, migrating to and getting started with SDL 2.0 is amazingly easy.

Most operating systems claim to be secure; however, most fail terribly. Newcomer Qubes OS tries a different approach, relying on a microkernel and pervasive virtualization.

Almost every wireless LAN has some potential security weaknesses. The Wifislax Slackware derivative helps detect and eliminate them.

Sharing videos or images doesn't always require a full-fledged YouTube or Flickr clone. Sometimes all you want is a quick place to upload, so you can link to your media or share it online. MediaCrush gives you just that, as well as other interesting perks.

You can transform WordPress into a powerful and flexible writing environment with these tools and techniques.

With Shotcut, you can edit videos, add effects, and point and click material together to create a new movie in next to no time.

KDE Kiosk lets administrators control user environments, including settings, themes, and access to the command shell and designated peripherals.

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