Highlights:

SERVICE: Welcome

What Comes After

It is well known that many of our most excruciating arguments about religion and philosophy are secretly arguments about definitions. With that said, I will add, it is quite a novel thing when the definition is in the foreground and everyone knows that is what they are arguing about.

SERVICE: This Month's DVD

Fedora 41 Workstation Live and Manjaro Xfce 24.1.1

NEWS: News

In the news: Fedora KDE Approved as an Official Spin; New Steam Client Ups the Ante for Linux; Gnome OS Transitioning Toward a General Purpose Distro; Fedora 41 Released with New Features; AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Gives Power Users a Sneak Preview; Gnome 47.1 Released with a Few Fixes; VirtualBox 7.1.4 Includes Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.12; and New Slimbook EVO with Raw AMD Ryzen Power.

NEWS: Kernel News

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the bcachefs patch submission process.

: Alternative Office Suites

Leading LibreOffice alternatives

The majority of Linux distributions ship with LibreOffice as the default office software, but some interesting alternatives are out there right now if you're ready to taste a different suite.

IN-DEPTH: Distro Walk – Freexian

Working behind the scenes on Debian

Distro Walk talks to a company that plays a major role in developing and maintaining Debian distributions.

IN-DEPTH: TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9

A look at the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14

A high-end compact laptop with Linux support out of the box.

IN-DEPTH: Mining File Data

Manipulating file data from the command line

Efficient tools to examine, edit, and transfer file information.

IN-DEPTH: Enumerating Resources

Enumerating resources with feroxbuster and ffuf

A cyberattack unfolds in stages. The enumeration phase is when the attacker looks for holes in the target system. Tools like feroxbuster and ffuf bring the power of automation to the search.

IN-DEPTH: LibRedirect

Bring privacy to social media with LibRedirect

The LibRedirect browser extension redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, and other services to alternative, privacy-friendly front ends.

IN-DEPTH: Ready When You Are

Photo sharing on the web with Go

To quickly prepare his photos for sharing on the web via a private link, Mike Schilli writes a Go program. The page layout is done with Go's template engine and even enables link previews in WhatsApp.

IN-DEPTH: WireGuard Easy

Manage your VPNs with WireGuard Easy

WireGuard is a less complex VPN solution compared to OpenVPN and IPsec. WireGuard Easy simplifies the process even further by allowing you to operate a VPN and manage clients through a user-friendly web interface.

IN-DEPTH: Bash Web Maintenance

Bash tricks for web maintenance

Use tools such as grep and sed to find and fix broken links.

: Matter

Matter: New standard for IoT and smart home devices

The new vendor-independent, open Matter standard for IoT and smart home devices has what it takes to revolutionize the market. We describe its basic principles and explain how Matter works.

: Pi Zero-Based Weather Cam

Build your own webcam with a Pi Zero 2W and a Cam Module 3

Combine a Raspberry Pi Zero and the new Raspberry Pi Cam 3 to create your own cost-effective, energy-saving webcam.

LINUX VOICE: Introduction

This month in Linux Voice and Elvie.

LINUX VOICE: maddog's Doghouse

Keeping open source open

People contribute to the Linux kernel from around the world and a great range of circumstances – even during war, which raises questions about how to remain open and consider security.

LINUX VOICE: NetBSD Desktop

Adventures in NetBSD

There's still an undeserved sense that BSD competency is something arcane and alchemic, but just as with Arch Linux or any other "niche" operating system, Google prompt-engineering and remaining alert will get you a long way.

LINUX VOICE: Zettlr

Tracking your thoughts with the Zettlr Markdown editor and knowledge manager

Keep your best ideas in easy reach with this simple but effective knowledge manager.

LINUX VOICE: FOSSPicks

Nate explores the top FOSS including the latest Plasma desktop, an app to turn your cellphone into a ham radio, and the last word in digital audio workstations.

LINUX VOICE: Metadata Wizard

Embed geotags and other information in photos

Metadata provides information about many aspects of a photo. DigiKam lets serious photographers edit photo data conveniently with its graphical user interface – and add geodata.