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• White House responds to rescinded DMCA exemption, urging freedom to jailbreak cell phones.

This month, Rasp Pi becomes a multimedia system, then we look at three great tools to create, manage, and monitor your virtual environments.

10 Home office no more



• Yahoo brings telecommuters back into the fold; Canonical turns to virtual events. • LG buys WebOS from HP • RHEL 6.4 released.

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11 Online Verification

• Alliance to develop new biometric authentication methods.

Raspberry Pi Media Center

Rasp Pi with XBMC can meet your multimedia needs.

22 phpVirtualBox VMware Monitoring 28 34 Proxmox VE

14 Tech Tools New tools for IT.

Set up a high-availability cluster with Proxmox VE.

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Virtual desktops in your web browser.

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Community Notebook

96 Featured Events 97 Call for Papers

90 Interview: OpenDocument

98 Preview Linux Magazine ISSN 1471-5678 Linux Magazine is published monthly by Linux New Media Ltd, Manchester, ­England. Company registered in England.

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Instead of vCenter, use OpenNMS to monitor VMware environments.

 e talk with Jean Hollis Weber, a W pioneer in open source office suite documentation.

92 Kernel News

Issue 150

Zack Brown brings you Linux kernel development news.

95 Doghouse: Migration

maddog looks at how far Linux has come since the first issue of Linux Magazine was published.

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Box 28 PHPVirtual38 KDE 4.10

KDE 4.10 Software Compilation is a prelude to KDE Frameworks 5.

Managine remote virtual machines in a web browser.

60 LUCENE

Features 42

Google Apps Script

38 KDE 4.10  DE 4.10 SC continues to move K system components and applications to the Plasma interface and QML code.

52 Ask Klaus!  laus Knopper answers questions K about bootloaders, GRUB, and interrupts.

54 Perl: USB Sticks

72 2D Animation Tools Four tools for animating your cartoons.

Script cloud-based Google apps with the Google Apps Script service, courtesy of server-side JavaScript.

Monitor home energy use securely with SSH and OpenWrt through an encrypted reverse tunnel.



Find the right open source tool to animate your drawings.

LinuxUser

47 SSH Reverse Tunnels

Animation 72 2DTools

Lightening searches, thanks to inverted indexing with the Lucene Java library.

Use an array of plugable media to create a backup solution.



Plumb the /proc filesystem for current system information.

In-Browser Editors

XML Security

 ML security is rife with holes. X Plug them, or move on to JSON.

60 Index Search with Lucene Inverted indexing for quick searches.

65 Charly’s Column: Dstat

Probing /proc

80 Workspace:

58 Security Lessons:

76 Command Line:



Don’t leave your browser to jot quick notes; edit in your browser windows.

86 Fresh Memory: Learning Aid

Memorize facts with the Fresh Memory flash card application.

Not enough system status information? Try Dstat.

66 Open Source Games

We look at five FPSs.

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