Linux Journal

January 2016 Issue of Linux Journal

2016: a Long Year I know you're expecting a sarcastic comment about an election year in the US making it seem longer than normal, but no, 2016 is literally a longer year than most.

Calling All Linux Nerds!

The editorial staff here at Linux Journal wants to see your skills! Almost every time I'm in the #linuxjournal IRC channel, chit chatting on Google+, or tweeting back and forth on Twitter, I hear about really exciting projects our readers are involved with.

January 2015 Issue of Linux Journal: Security

Security: a Method, Not a Goal The Security issue of Linux Journal always makes me feel a little guilty. It turns out that although I have a fairly wide set of technology skills, I'm not the person you want in charge of securing your network or your systems. By default, Linux is designed with a moderate amount of security in mind. For that, I am incredibly grateful.

How Can We Get Business to Care about Freedom, Openness and Interoperability?

They use our stuff. Why not our values too? At this point in history, arguments for using Linux, FOSS (free and open-source software) and the Internet make themselves. Yet the virtues behind those things—freedom, openness, compatibility, interoperability, substitutability—still tend to be ignored by commercial builders of new stuff.

December 2014 Issue of Linux Journal: Readers' Choice

The Best of the Best I love the Readers' Choice issue. I jokingly say it's because all the work is done by the community, but honestly, it's because I love hearing the feedback from everyone. Year after year, I inevitably learn about a new technology or application, and I'm usually surprised by at least one of the voting results.

Coolest Things You've Done with Linux

In our 2014 Readers' Choice Awards, we asked readers to tell us the coolest thing they've done with Linux. There were so many great responses, but we didn't have room for all of them in the magazine, so we're listing more of the best ones here. Enjoy! Building my procmail pre-spam spam filter back in mid-late 90s. 450-node compute cluster.

November 2014 Issue of Linux Journal: System Administration

Folger's Crystals Every time I write a Bash script or schedule a cron job, I worry about the day I'll star in my very own IT version of a Folger's commercial. Instead of "secretly replacing coffee with Folger's Instant Crystals", however, I worry I'll be replaced by an automation framework and a few crafty FOR loops.