Digital Issues

Issue #203: IoT at Home – Control your possessions from a mobile device

This month, we feature some cool open source tools for automating your home, including Home Assistant and the Adafruit IO API. We also explore a streaming solution based on the Raspberry Pi Zero and take a look at what's ahead for the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 release

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Issue #202: Power Management

If you work from a laptop or other portable device, extending the time between charges is a great way to improve your productivity. The Linux environment includes several utilities that will help you configure and monitor the system's power consumption settings. This month we focus on tools for power management.

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Issue #201: Locked Down with the Network Security Toolkit

This month we show you the Network Security Toolkit, a smart collection of powerful security tools bundled into a single interface.

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Issue #200: The Story of the GPL

This month we celebrate our 200th issue with a special look at the great GNU Public License.

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Issue #199: A New Approach to Regular Expressions – Regex meets natural English with Simple Regex Language

Tired of composing and deciphering those weird, inscrutable strings of characters known as regular expressions? This month we show you Simple Regex Language (SRL), an innovative tool that lets you create regular expressions using simple English commands.

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Issue #198: 4 Cool Desktop Tools – Reinvent Your Work Life

If you're like many Linux users, that perfect desktop tool you really need does not always appear in your default configuration. The Linux repositories are a treasure trove of interesting and practical applications, and we highlight four in this issue: the Zim personal wiki, OnlyOffice, Getting Things Gnome, and Mozilla's SeaMonkey Internet suite.

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Issue #197: Wayland & Mir – The Future of Linux Graphics

This month we show you why the X11 system that is the basis for Linux graphics might not be around much longer – and we explore a pair of alternatives that might replace it: Wayland and Mir.

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Issue #196: Privacy – Safe Surfing with Tails

This month you'll learn about Tails – the easiest path to the Tor anonymity network – and you'll discover some tools for private communication, including Signal and Bitmessage.

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Issue #195: Network Storage Distros – Who needs an expensive appliance?

This month we show you how to set up a network-attached storage system with a Raspberry Pi and explore the latest release of KDE’s Plasma Desktop.

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