This month's DVD features two terrific distributions, ArtistX 1.5 and Arch Linux 2013.10.01.

Microsoft has an entire portfolio of pre-built virtual machines, all of them Linux systems, designed to run on the Windows Azure cloud service.

The Debian Goodies collection offers a variety of time-tested scripts to help you manage Debian packages.

An Italian company is making sure Microsoft doesn't sleep through the hype concerning OpenStack. Learn about the recent work on integrating OpenStack with Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.

This month's DVD features two great distributions, Fedora 19 Security Spin and Kali Linux.

The powerful dpkg-reconfigure command can be used to reconfigure an entire installation. We show how to use it wisely.

The Smart Package Manager makes everyday tasks of handling RPM and DEB packages simple but has a full set of controls for experts.

This month we bring you two great desktop distributions: Mageia 3, from the all-volunteer community that forked the commercial Mandriva Linux distribution, and Linux Mint Debian, a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.