Digital Issues

Hadoop 2 and the promise of Big Data

Hadoop version 2 has transitioned from an application to a powerful Big Data platform. Take a swim in the data lake.

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Issue #170 (Jan 2015) Living with Windows

We show you some helpful tools for co-existing with Microsoft networks.

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Issue #169 (Dec 2014) New Start For Android Security

A sneak peek at security features in the upcoming Android L release.

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Issue #168 (Nov 2014) YouTube Jukebox

If you want to listen to music without the complications and performance penalty of a web browser, consider using a streaming music video player.

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Issue #167 (Oct 2014) Intrusion Detection

This month we look at two intrusion detection tools to help keep your systems safe.

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Issue #166 (Sep 2014) Cinnamon vs. MATE

You don’t have to settle for KDE or Gnome anymore. Linux offers a variety of powerful alternative desktops.

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Issue #165 (August 2014) Choose a Filesystem

This month, we compare some leading Linux filesystems. We also show how to set up a storage cluster in the cloud, and we explore the userspace filesystem SSHFS.

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Issue #164 (July 2014) Interoperability

In this issue, we look at Cygwin, a run-time environment that allows you to run and compile Linux programs in Windows. Then, we test various Linux distros to see how they handle the controversial UEFI Secure Boot feature that locks out “unauthorized” operating systems.

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