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

Cover Stories:

• Raspberry Pi Media Center: Use the scripting powers of Libre/OpenOffice to automate repetitive tasks.
• Proxmox VE: Set up a high-availability cluster with Proxmox VE.
• phpVirtualBox: Virtual desktops in your web browser.
• VMware Monitoring: Instead of vCenter, use OpenNMS to monitor VMware environments.

Also in this issue:

• Table of Contents
• Comment: Big Box
• On the DVD: The Complete Linux Archive
• DVD Inlay
• News
• Tech Tools: Zend Studio 10 Announced; Django 1.5 Released; Tizen 2.0 Now Available; Ruby 2.0 Released
• KDE 4.10: KDE 4.10 SC continues to move system components and applications to the Plasma interface and QML code.
• Google Apps Script: Script cloud-based Google apps with the Google Apps Script service, courtesy of server-side JavaScript.
• SSH Reverse Tunnels: Monitor home energy use securely with SSH and OpenWrt through an encrypted reverse tunnel.
• Ask Klaus! Klaus Knopper answers questions about bootloaders, GRUB, and interrupts.
• Perl – USB Sticks: Use an array of plugable media to create a backup solution.
• Security Lessons: XML Security XML security is rife with holes. Plug them, or move on to JSON.
• Index Search with Lucene: Inverted indexing for quick searches.
• Charly’s Column - Dstat: Not enough system status information? Try Dstat.
• Open Source Games: We look at five FPSs.
• Animation Tools: Four tools for animating your cartoons.
• Command Line – Probing /proc: Plumb the /proc filesystem for current system information.
• Workspace – In-Browser Editors: Don’t leave your browser to jot quick notes; edit in your browser windows.
• Fresh Memory – Learning Aid Memorize facts with the Fresh Memory flash card application.
• Interview – OpenDocument: We talk with Jean Hollis Weber, a pioneer in open source office suite documentation.
• Kernel News: Zack Brown brings you Linux kernel development news.
• Doghouse – Migration: maddog looks at how far Linux has come since the first issue of Linux Magazine was published.