Issue #187 / Jun 2016

Dgit combines the Debian archive with a Git repository, giving package maintainers some totally new options for managing Debian source packages.

Miller offers a clever alternative for working with structured text files: use a single tool to replace the strings of commands built from conventional utilities like grep, cut, and sed.

Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions.

Columnist Charly fights the fight for free SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt. He particularly likes the matching software client that takes care of everything – from certificate retrieval to web server integration.

Cautious administrators will want to make sure a Linux installation is still working as intended after an update. A simple test suite offers that assurance.

The KDE Plasma desktop has so many configuration options, it scares some users away. But if you're patient enough to learn the secrets, you'll find some useful tricks for customizing the Plasma user environment.

Pgrep is a valuable tool for tracking down processes.

Powerful and flexible chess programs have been scarce on Linux. But PyChess sees the free operating system checkmate other platforms.

As a simple and reliable command-line backup utility that supports popular cloud storage services, rclone makes a perfect tool for maintaining an off-site backup of your data. This article can help you to get started.

Other applications have found less complex ways of showing the weather in a terminal, but none is as attractive as Wego.