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Issue 189 (October 2014) - Your Linux Problems Solved

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At some point everyone has a problem with Linux that they can’t solve alone, but these things never stay a problem for long, do they? To boost your innate troubleshooting knowledge and draw together a useful collection of tried and tested fixes, we’ve collected together a huge 14-page collection of the most common Linux problems. For a trouble-free experience we’ve done a Roundup of the best Chromebooks on the market. Plus there’s our usual great mix of FOSS delights, from the next-gen Nginx web server to post-quantum encryption techniques. We cover running Linux on Android devices, old-school emulators and Open Office macros, more Minecraft hacking and how Facebook is making PHP a little friendlier with Hack.

On the DVD: Tails Linux 1.1, Deepin 2014, Ultimate Boot CD, System Rescue CD and Rescatux.

 Features

Your Linux Problems Solved

Mobile Linux brain Neil Bothwick tackles the most common issues and presents a collection of solutions that's sure to keep your system running smooth and trouble free. Well ,mostly. (Neil Bothwick)
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Cryptography: a history

We look at the history of keeping secrets safe. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Linux on the curriculum

In September 2014 England became the first country in the world to teach computing from the start of school. We map this brave new world. (Siobhan Ramsey)
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OpenStack Ceph

The open source storage system explained. (Jolyon Brown)
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Dr Brown's Administeria

Securely log on to remote PCs and how you can make Linux and Windows play nicely. (Chris Brown)
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Interview: High standards

We talk to Italo Vignoli about LibreOffice. (Matt Hanson)
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 Coverdisc

On the disc

Tails Linux 1.1, Deepin 2014, Ultimate Boot CD, System Rescue CD and Rescatux. (Neil Bothwick)
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Hotpicks

Firefox, Rainbow Stream, Etm Tk, WP-CLI, Sweet Home 3D, Streamtuner2, Pyspread, Freeciv, nSnake, UNetbootin, Sedlisp (Richard Smedley)
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 Tutorials

Linux on Android

(Mayank Sharma)
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Emulate retro games

(Mayank Sharma)
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Terminal - macros and shortcuts

(Neil Bothwick)
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Nginx - XHTML

(Andrew Mallett)
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Macros - Libre Office

(Marco Fioretti)
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 Coding Academy

Minecraft image import

Create huge image walls from Jpeg files and then blow them up. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hack

Get to grips with the new language from Facebook and it's not all lolz, plz and catz. (Jonni Bidwell)
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 Reviews

KDE 5.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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OwnCloud 7 CE

(Jonni Bidwell)
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UberStudent 4.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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LXQt

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Dell PowerEdge T20

(Linux Format)
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Slice of Radio

(Les Pounder)
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Nvidia Shield

(Linux Format)
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X-Plane 10 Global, Blockstorm

(David Hayward)
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Chromebooks

(Henry Winchester)
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 More

News: News

Linux 3.16, openSUSE Factory, India loves Ubuntu, AMD go ARM 64-bit and more (Matt Hanson)
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