Issue #168 / Nov 2014

British mainframe vendor and COBOL titan Micro Focus just announced a plan to purchase Attachmate. We get press announcements of mergers and buyouts all the time, but this one caught my eye.

Knoppix 7.4 and PCLinuxOS 2014.08

Updates on Technologies, Trends, and Tools

YouTube offers more than just funny kitten movies; you will also find more than 60 million music videos. With a native YouTube client for Linux, you can use this online jukebox as conveniently as your local music collection.

Run your application smoothly and portably in the cloud with the Docker container system. This workshop takes a practical look deploying Docker with the OwnCloud cloud environment.

CoreOS is an operating system for the cloud that relies on Docker and also lets you build compute clusters out of the box.

The Hawaii desktop relies on Qt Quick, supports Wayland, and comes with its own compositor. Thanks to the Maui Linux system, you can test Hawaii on a Live CD or on a VMware virtual machine.

The brand new Raspberry Pi Model  B+ is solid and tidy, with many clever improvements in detail that make this the best version so far. The desired improvement in performance will have to wait for now.

If you are ready to migrate your hardware RAID system to the virtual world, standard virtualization and forensics tools are ready for the task.

Many Linux diagnostic tools require knowledge of a special syntax, which complicates handling and confuses the output. Sysdig groups several important tools into a single interface.