Issue #197 / Apr 2017

PayPal cofounder and rocket maker Elon Musk keeps getting himself into the news. Sometimes he gets notice for his new products and projects, but he is also famous as a kind of self-appointed spokesman for the techno-future.

Parsix GNU/Linux (64-bit, Live) and Debian 8.7 Jessie (32-bit, Install)

Updates on technologies, trends, and tools

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

Former Microsoft open source VP Wim Coekaerts.

The X Window System, which dates to the 1980s, still forms the basis of Linux's graphical user interface, but it does cause some despair among developers with its legacy ballast and outmoded technology. Wayland and Mir are two promising candidates for the changing of the guard.

The freshly released digiKam 5 boasts a number of new features, brings many improvements, and ditches some legacy ballast.

If you are looking for an alternative to Google Analytics for studying website data, you can choose from a few free alternatives. In this article, we look at Piwik, Open Web Analytics, and eAnalytics.

Find out how to create a cross-platform app with the veteran tool Qt Creator.

Many Linux users employ Secure Shell to log in remotely and work as if on a local machine. But SSH can do even more – the application will send commands, route other TCP connections through an encrypted tunnel, and provide multiplexing support.