Issue #170 / Jan 2015

One news item that crossed the wires this month was the company known as Aereo closing its Boston office and laying off more staff. The move follows a supreme court ruling in June that left them without a viable means for gaining revenue. Although Aereo still seems to be afloat in some capacity, its prospects are few, and the new investment money necessary for a restart doesn't seem to be on the horizon.

Lubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.10

Updates on Technologies, Trends, and Tools

The Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop terminal server platform lets administrators serve up Windows and Linux applications over the network.

We explore some leading tools for integrating your Linux network with an Active Directory environment.

The online video store Netflix delivers video on demand to many countries. Although the service offers Linux-friendly HTML5 streams, you have to coax Netflix into actually serving them up.

AcpiTool and PowerTOP ensure a sustainable battery lifetime and guarantee low energy consumption of laptops running Linux by identifying power hogs and maintaining the battery.

The CubieTruck small-board PC is a measuring instrument that copes well with Gigabit networks and offers a surprisingly affordable and efficient solution.

Systemd developers are working on a system that might make the differences between the many Linux distributions easier to tolerate for software users, developers, and vendors – and the Btrfs filesystem plays a central role in their ambitious plans.

If you want to exploit protection through the anonymous Tor router fully, you need to delve deep into the underlying technologies. The SelekTOR front end saves you much of that effort.