CONTENTS LV008 Novemberr Season of mists and mellow -get dist-updates.

20 REGULARS SUBSCRIBE 06 News ON PAGE 62 China is launching the People’s , plus reports from Munich, XBMC & more.

08 Distrohopper Tanglu, Elementary OS and Build a Linux Qubes are our new favourite distro and share it Linux distributions. 10 Gaming with the world. Our Downloads file runneth over with ways to waste time and kill things.

12 Speak your brains What we’re doing right, what we’re doing wrong, and a win for .

16 LV on tour Information security in Dublin and a coder Dojo in West 28 Londonshire.

18 LinuxCon What the organisations behind Linux are planning to do next.

42 Interview Red Hat’s Jan Wildeboer will have you reaching for your tin foil hat. Be afraid.

56 Group test Rejuvenate your Raspbery Pi with one of these tasty new Indie Tech: because we don’t just operating systems. 62 Subscribe! need Free Software; we need a Never miss an issue, save new business model. money and get us delivered to your door.

64 Core Technologies Find out from a programmer’s point of view what’s really going on in your filesystem.

68 Fosspicks A huge treasure trove of free software awaits the bold adventurer.

110 Masterclass Secure your website (and 32 LINUX IN SPACE 40 FAQ: DIASPORA 36 understand the theory) with the SSL security protocol. Find out why there Share photos, From the days before 114 My Linux Desktop are 100 satellites messages and Frozen Bubble to Scholar, gentleman and running updates without today’s wonderland – community guy at XPrize, currently in low orbit turning into the history of games Jono Bacon. around the Earth. advertising fodder. on Linux.

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48 Wacom Intuos Pro HDR: Create awesome Raspberry Pi: Release your inner Hockney photographs Let’s get animated with this fantastically supported graphics tablet. Combine images to achieve Craft a movie masterpiece with stunning visual effects. Python and the Pi.

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50 Mediagoblin 0.7 A free, distributed alternative to YouTube? That’s what Linux 101: John The Ripper: Mediagoblin aims to be. Back up your data Crack passwords 51 Calibre 2.0 One day you’ll wish you used … then create new ones that are Writing that novel you’ve always encrypted backups. more secure. wanted to? Have a look at this editor’s tool first.

90 94 52 Energenie sockets Hook your Pi’s GPIO pins up to the mains (safely!) with this death avoidance device.

53 Android x86 The world’s favourite mobile OS lands on the PC. But how does it perform on proper hardware? Cyrus: Build your own URWID: Create text- email server mode interfaces 54 Books A host of learning in Take control of your The interface of the 90s is alive paper and digital forms for our communications. on low-bandwidth systems. eager eyes to devour.

98 XBMC: Create a 102 Code ninja: 104 Sophie Wilson remote control Lambda functions and ARM Take the effort out Simplicity and The chip that took of watching TV. elegance for code. over the world.

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