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TUXEDO Announces Gemini 17

TUXEDO Computers has released the fourth generation of its Gemini laptop with plenty of updates.

Top Linux Distributions for Beginners: Friendly, Stable, and Easy to Learn

by George Whittaker

Introduction

Linux has long been known as the operating system of developers and power users, but today it’s far more accessible than ever before. Thanks to user-f…

health @ Savannah: GNU Health HIS 5.0.5 – Ready for Python 3.14

Dear community

I am happy to announce that since patchset 5.0.5, GNU Health Information system is ready for Python 3.14.

All GNU Health HIS packages have been updated so they allow Python 3.14. The GNU Health GTK client and GNU Health control …

Overview of 2D animation programs

With the right tool and a bit of artistic talent, you can create two-dimensional cartoons, even without Flash. In this article, we present four animation programs and look at how well they perform in practice.

Virtual desktops in your web browser with phpVirtualBox

Putting all virtualization tasks on a separate server saves significant resources on the client. phpVirtualBox makes it possible to create, configure, manage, and use remote VMs in a browser window.

It’s time to take XML out back and shoot it

XML security problems are numerous, but you can take steps to limit your exposure – or you can use a different standard.

Indexing and searching text with Lucene

Even state-of-the-art computers need to use clever methods to process ever-increasing amounts of document data. The open source Lucene framework uses inverted indexing for fast searches of document collections.

Using old flash memory as a backup medium

USB sticks and SD cards quickly lose their value, but if a script distributes the data across several such devices, flash memory is still useful as a fast and shockproof backup medium despite limited capacity.

KDE Software Compilation 4.10

KDE SC 4.10 was released six months after KDE 4.9, adding many new features. In the background, work is in full swing for the next generation, KDE Frameworks 5: a KDE based completely on Qt5 and QML.

Understanding the transitory /proc filesystem

The mysterious /proc virtual filesystem is a rich mine of information about everything in your system.

VMware monitoring with OpenNMS

Dynamic resource allocation and migration of virtual machines between hosts mean that VMware environments pose new monitoring challenges. A new version of the free OpenNMS network management tool now includes an option for monitoring VMware-based infra…

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2025-12-14 15:18:01

Like any self-respecting Linux journalist, I’m often predisposed to take Microsoft to task. For the record, I do manage to spread it around, with occasional reflections on Apple and Google, because I truly believe our universe has room for more than on…

Handling critical security vulnerabilities: Three incidents

We look at what makes a security issue critical and how upstream developers and vendors respond by examining three incidents: CVE-2013-0156, CVE-2013-0333, and rubygems.org. Moreover, we look at improvements that can make security better in the future …

What’s new in Apache HTTP Server, version 2.4

Apache HTTP Server version 2.4 is full of exciting new features. We share a few of them with you.

Forensic analysis of memory on Linux

In computer forensics, memory analysis is becoming increasingly important as a means for investigating security incidents. In this article, we provide an overview of the various memory dumping options on Linux and introduce the support in Linux for the…

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2025-12-14 12:01:42

A Linux home entertainment server with UPnP and DLNA

Thanks to protocols such as UPnP and DLNA, video, audio, and photos are distributed to TVs, gaming consoles, PCs, and smartphones without the need for configuration. Linux as a central media server is a welcome guest.

Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions

A Perl tool for querying distribution repositories

A Perl script calls various plugins that sniff around on FTP and HTTP servers run by the major Linux distributions to discover when Fedora, Debian, and other distros update their packages.

Learning the basics of architectural security

Security applications like antivirus protectors respond to events, rather than preventing them from happening, but the best security in Linux is architectural – that is, in its configuration.