Issue #219 / Feb 2019

More than just a boot manager, GRUB 2 can help you add another line of protection to your security defenses.

This month, sys admin columnist Charly dumps the moreutils toolbox on his workbench and takes combine and vidir for a spin.

Include binary data and image files in your IoT projects with Redis, an open source, in-memory data structure store.

A pulsemeter built with a Raspberry Pi, a digital-to-analog converter, and an optical sensor monitors your heart rate just as well as many far more expensive medical devices.

Despite a few ups and downs in development, Purism moves ahead in its quest to produce a free and secure phone.

As open source software development for the RISC-V architecture moves ahead, maddog says stop complaining and start contributing to the project.

EasySSH lives up to its name and starts SSH connections at the click of a mouse.

If you have old VHS tapes or audio cassettes lying around, the hardware to play these analog formats is becoming more difficult to find. Here's how to convert those old analog treasures to digital format for future enjoyment.

Graham nearly made it through an entire month of FOSSPicks without an esoteric audio discovery. And then he found VeeSeeVSTRack.

You do not need to learn low-level programming languages to become a real Linux power user. Shell scripting is all you need.