Portable and Mobile: Whether you tote a camera, a GPS device, a smartphone, or a netbook, you want to be functional outside the home and office. This month we study some Linux tools for portable and mobile environments:

• Smartphone VNC: Keep in touch with your laptop from your iPhone, iPod Touch, or other mobile device.
• Open Atrium: Marcel Gagné looks at this “intranet in a box,” which facilitates group communication and collaboration and makes the server your newest mobile app.
• Maemo: The Qt toolkit for Maemo lets you build apps with GUIs, I/O, and networking for smartphones and Internet tablets.

Additional articles in the December issue include:

• acpid: Hal Pomeranz explains how you can customize your laptop by programming your own hot key hacks with the ACPI daemon.
• Jolicloud: Your netbook needs a different desktop metaphor; check out Jolicloud.
• Moblin: This alternative desktop is customized for the Intel Atom processor.
• ExtSQL: Get detailed usage statistics for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
• Miredo: Move from IPv4 to IPv6 through a Miredo tunnel.
• Security Lessons: Sniff your network with Wireshark.
• OpenVAS: An open source network vulnerability scanner.
• Perl – Log Chat Sessions: Let this tricky bot keep an eye on your IRC.
• gPhoto: Remotely control digital cameras.
• Prune: The data in your GPS device is just begging you to Prune it.
• OpenOffice Macros: Compose and publish your blog from OpenOffice.org.
• Yum: Master this RPM package manager.
• Moodle CMS: The Moodle course management system is every teacher's friend.
• Event Reports: Reports from Ohio Linux Fest, LinuxCon 2009, and the Grace Hopper conference.