Linux Magazine #138 - Digital Issue

Cover Stories:

• Load Testing the Cloud: Know which numbers matter when you measure performance.
• BoxGrinder: A virtual appliance manufactory.
• Building a Cloud Game Server: Don’t hog the home bandwidth; run your games in the cloud.

Also in this issue:

• Table of Contents
• Comment: You say you want a revolution
• On the DVD: Linux Mint 12
• DVD Inlay
• News
• Tech Tools
• Mozilla Popcorn: The Popcorn media toolkit uses HTML5 and JavaScript to pull content to your web page from diverse sources.
• SPDY: Google unveils a new protocol for speeding up the web.
• Searching ZIPs and TAR s: Look into compressed and archived files with standard Linux tools.
• Kexi vs. Glom: These lean and easy tools let you into the database game.
• Ask Klaus! Your Linux questions answered.
• Environment Modules: Bring order to compiler and library chaos on your cluster with environment modules.
• Charly – Weather Page: Decode the output from a weather station and create a personal weather web page.
• Security Lessons – Cloud Security: Audit and secure cloud systems with the OpenSCAP and Aqueduct tools.
• MultiSystem: Everything tastes better on a stick, including your favorite virtual operating systems.
• Perl – Evernote and GTD: With Evernote and Perl, you can send reminders from your Getting Things Done tickler file.
• Command Line – Resources: Tour the top references for command line information.
• Fork CMS: Don’t sweat the big content management systems; use Fork CMS.
• Workspace – easybook: Publish your manuscript.
• Doghouse – Accessibility: maddog looks at some computer accessibility issues.
• DevOps – Automated Clouds: Develop for and administer distributed computing with Juju and Nodeable.
• Kernel News: Binary-only modules, kernel.org security, remounting disks, PohmelFS distributed filesystem, and isolated drivers.
• PyCon 2012: Robots, PyPy, and more.
• Tech Tools: TeamDrive 3.0, TeamCity 7.0, AMD GPUs, and more.
• Linux New Media Awards: Recognizing the best.