The renaissance of comics, with their hand-rendered heroes, is thrilling millions at movie theaters and in print. The Comix reader gives you a convenient way to follow your favorite stories on your PC.

Crabgrass sets out to do battle with Facebook and company with a simple approach to founding subversive social networks, and Clipperz manages the passwords you need for them.

Exclusive interview with Red Hat's Ian Weller and an open source news roundup.

How do you meet other local geeks or find a mentor?

From the Lower Rhine to Central Franconia, on his journey, Charly found beaten gold, relaxed Linux users, abandoned beer cellars, and a Python one-liner for presentable photos of the tour. A once-in-a-year experience.

With KDE 4.4, plasmoids can now be written in JavaScript or QtScript, thus opening up a whole new class of applications. Marcel shows how easy it is to build JavaScript plasmoids.