Programming News and Articles

USB sticks and SD cards quickly lose their value, but if a script distributes the data across several such devices, flash memory is still useful as a fast and shockproof backup medium despite limited capacity.

XML security problems are numerous, but you can take steps to limit your exposure – or you can use a different standard.

We’ll show you a practical project for monitoring home energy usage with SSH and OpenWrt.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Jailbreak Spat

• White House goes on record in support of freedom to jailbreak cell phones
• News Bites

10 RHEL 6.4 Released

• Yahoo ends telecommuting,
• Canonical UDS
• LG purchases WebOS from HP

11 Passwords Passé

• FIDO alliance seeks new authentication methods
• Largest Mersenne prime discovered

Klaus Knopper is the creator of Knoppix and co-founder of LinuxTag expo. He works as a teacher, programmer, and consultant. If you have a configuration problem, or if you just want to learn more about how Linux works, send your questions to: klaus@linux-magazine.com

• Zend Studio 10 Announced
• Django 1.5 Released
• Tizen 2.0 Now Available
• Ruby 2.0 Released