Issue #193 / Dec 2016

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Arch Linux and Chapeau 24

Updates on technologies, trends, and tools

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman is one of the friendliest faces of the Linux kernel community. He maintains the stable branch of the Linux kernel and participates in many more Linux projects. He works at the Linux Foundation as a fellow, a job that allows him to dedicate his time to the Linux kernel. I sat down with Greg to talk about the kernel, 25 years of Linux, and what he does with the rest of his life.

Add location data to your best digital images with digiKam and GPS Correlate.

The old Microsoft gave the cold shoulder to Skype for Linux, neither updating it nor equipping it with new features. The new Microsoft promises to do better, with a brand new alpha prerelease version of a Linux client for the famous telephony tool.

In the office, the interoperability and cooperation of a few programs play an important role. We take the four big Linux office suites to task and see how well they cope with non-native formats.

Deep learning isn't just for industrial automation tasks. With a little help from Gimp and some special neural network tools, you can add color to your old black and white images.

Make files fit for the cloud with Cryptomator by encrypting content and obscuring the name and size of each file.