Highlights:

SERVICE: Welcome

Check the Numbers

The free software community loves it when FOSS projects find a place in the IT cosmos. When people who have never used Linux start talking about tools like LibreOffice and MariaDB, we get a warm feeling of accomplishment. However, many open source projects are maintained by for-profit entities, and once in a while, they fall off the open source wagon.

SERVICE: This Month's DVD

Rocky Linux 9.4 and MX Linux MX-23.3

NEWS: News

In the news: New KDE Slimbook Plasma Available for Preorder; Rhino Linux Announces Latest "Quick Update"; Plasma Desktop Will Soon Ask for Donations: Linux Market Share Hits New High; LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers New Features; Deepin 23 Offers Wayland Support and New AI Tool; and Linux Foundation Adopts OMI to Foster Ethical LLMs.

NEWS: Kernel News

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on: Supporting Older Tools; and Kernel Bug or Compiler Bug?

: Domoticz

Automate your home with Domoticz

The open source Domoticz home automation platform offers a lightweight, efficient, and highly customizable solution for managing smart devices in the home.

: openHAB

Home automation with the openHAB platform

OpenHAB is an open source facility-automation platform that lets you network your smart devices independently of vendor or protocol.

: Voice Control with Home Assistant

Voice control with Home Assistant's Assist feature

Home automation systems typically come with a web-based dashboard to control devices in your house. Home Assistant recently introduced a privacy-protecting voice system that operates locally.

: Heat Pump Story

Making a heat pump smarter with pyHPSU

This article shows how to connect a Rotex heat pump with a Raspberry Pi and integrate it into a smart home solution. Building in some legacy roller blinds helps with solar gain, but it requires some extra steps.

REVIEWS: Who's the BOSS

India's national distribution

Developed with the goal of bridging the digital divide in India, BOSS Linux offers an easy-to-use distribution for all users.

IN-DEPTH: Ubuntu autoinstall with cloud-init

Automatic installation with Ubuntu 22.04 and cloud-init

The new automatic installation method rolled out with Ubuntu 22.04 borrows some tools from the cloud configuration toolbox. We'll show you how to get started.

IN-DEPTH: Easy Install

Automating Debian installations

DebPostInstall takes the drudgery out of Debian installations.

IN-DEPTH: Transcoding with CasaOS

Transcode your video library with ease

You can set up an automatic transcoding tool with CasaOS, HandBrake, FileBrowser, and HAProxy, to transcode your video library with ease. We show you how to get started.

IN-DEPTH: Hijacking Browsers

Hijacking browsers with BeEF

Bits of JavaScript from a malicious website can put your browser in a trance. A tool called BeEF encapsulates that power in a most diabolical way, providing yet another reason to avoid unknown links and keep your browser up to date.

IN-DEPTH: Affordable AI

Edge AI acceleration with Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi enters the artificial intelligence accelerator fray with a low-cost solution.

IN-DEPTH: Give, Don't Take

Share Go code on GitHub

Go makes it easy to bundle universal code into a package and share it with the world on GitHub. Mike Schilli explains the tricks and how to avoid the pitfalls.

: Weather Station

Process data from a weather station with Linux

A DVB-T stick retrieves information from a professional weather station and stores it in a database for downstream processing.

: Raspberry Pi 5 Case

3D print your own Raspberry Pi 5 case

The official Raspberry Pi 5 case is not the perfect solution for all applications, so it makes perfect sense to design and 3D print your own case.

LINUX VOICE: Introduction

This month in Linux Voice and Elvie.

LINUX VOICE: maddog's Doghouse

The fun of open source

A great part of early Linux was the fun – of programming, sharing, meeting others – and it's worth cultivating now.

LINUX VOICE: FOSSPicks

Nate explores the top FOSS including the last word in file compression, a superb Mastodon client, a Freeciv fork, and a random task selector.

LINUX VOICE: Organizer

Exploring the Yazi console-based file manager

This fast and flexible file manager offers command-line speed with some GUI-like conveniences.