Issue #191 / Oct 2016

It is 2010, and Ubuntu is riding the crest of a wave. The distro named for a principle of African philosophy that is "too beautiful to even say in English" had legions of loyal users and, perhaps more importantly, legions of enthusiastic volunteers, even though the project was actually backed by a for-profit company called Canonical.

Remix OS for PC and Gentoo Linux

Updates on technologies, trends, and tools

Samba 4 has been around for more than three years, but some users still shy from it. If you are still sitting on the fence, this tour through some of the new features and capabilities might help you decide whether it is finally time to upgrade.

Fail-safe is a massive topic for file server admins. Thanks to the CTDB and Ceph, you can put Samba in a cluster with minimal complications.

The NFS network filesystem has served Unix and Linux networks for many years, but the demise of NFS inventor Sun Microsystems as an independent company has thrust NFS into a creative crisis. Will this veteran from the early days of Unix find the strength to rise again?

Authors who publish documents or books with LaTeX can tap into online services using modern browsers, on both desktop and mobile devices, and as a collaborative tool.

Tool tests on the fast track.

Cooperation between the private company Collabora and the open source ownCloud project takes LibreOffice into the cloud. We tested the developer version and reveal what the online office solution holds for users.

Scrapy is an open source framework written in Python that lets you build your own crawlers with minimal effort for professional results.