Issue #199 / Jun 2017

A recent flurry of activity in the container space raises several interesting questions about security among a number of operational aspects in the enterprise environment.

Asking Alexa only for built-in functions like the weather report gets old quickly, and add-on skills from the skills store only go so far. With a few lines of code, Mike teaches this digital pet some new tricks.

Charly and XML have never been best friends. However, because it was vital for him to have an excellent climate indoors, he plucked up his courage and considered XMLStarlet.

WordGrinder offers distraction-free writing; we look at how realistic that concept is in everyday use.

If you struggle with the appearance and behavior of the Gnome desktop, the classic features of fallback mode offer an alternative in a familiar style. Lamented by many as dead and gone, Gnome 3 fallback is still alive and kicking in Gnome Flashback.

How does the Core Infrastructure Initiative fare three years in?

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OSI approval guarantees the freedom to innovate.

The past is a foreign country.

"maddog" ponders how our actions affect others in ways we cannot predict.