Digital Issues

Issue #160 (March 2014): SteamOS

Linux gaming has emerged from the shadows with the arrival of the popular Steam platform. We look at the latest developments for Steam on Linux.

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Issue #161 (April 2014): Home Routers

Discover the vulnerabilities of typical home and small office routers, and consider the SafeSquid filter proxy for secure home surfing.

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Issue #162 (May 2014): A Smarter Network

Globalization, increasing numbers of devices, virtualization, the cloud, and BYOD are changing the face of networks.

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Issue #163 (June 2014) Coding Tools

Cool tools that will change the way you think about programming including:
* Reactive Manifesto
* Clojure
* Frameworks 5
* Java 8

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Issue #164 (July 2014) Interoperability

In this issue, we look at Cygwin, a run-time environment that allows you to run and compile Linux programs in Windows. Then, we test various Linux distros to see how they handle the controversial UEFI Secure Boot feature that locks out “unauthorized” operating systems.

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Issue #165 (August 2014) Choose a Filesystem

This month, we compare some leading Linux filesystems. We also show how to set up a storage cluster in the cloud, and we explore the userspace filesystem SSHFS.

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Issue #166 (Sep 2014) Cinnamon vs. MATE

You don’t have to settle for KDE or Gnome anymore. Linux offers a variety of powerful alternative desktops.

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Issue #167 (Oct 2014) Intrusion Detection

This month we look at two intrusion detection tools to help keep your systems safe.

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Issue #168 (Nov 2014) YouTube Jukebox

If you want to listen to music without the complications and performance penalty of a web browser, consider using a streaming music video player.

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