Issue 10 Out Now!
Windows vs Linux: The ultimate showdown. OK, it’s pretty easy to see which way this is going to go, but it’s always good to look at why one operating system is better than another.
Once we’ve finished boasting about the prowess of Linux, we search out the best light-weight distro, look into the murky world of patent litigation, uncover the secrets of Systemd, play with Google Cardboard, add more forms of input to a Raspberry Pi and program autonomous battle droids.
Tim Bray, creator of XML and privacy campaigner, talks to us about keeping information safe: “We owe Mr Snowden a lot of credit for exposing people to the fact that their governments are doing things of questionable legality, morality and effectiveness.”
In issue 10, we also reveal the details of our profit-sharing scheme where subscribers get to decide which good causes we donate money to.
Take a look at the contents page below for a complete overview of our 116 pages/75,000 words.
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Ben Everard
Ben Everard is the co-author of Learning Python with the Raspberry Pi and hacks hardware projects held together with a big dollop of Linux and Free Software glue. He's @ben_everard on Twitter.
Thanks for the article on systemd, I feel like I have a clue now. I wish had I had found something like that when things changed from devfsd to udev.
Glad you found it useful! I’m tempted to write a few more Systemd-related tutorials, to show what else it can do. I know some people don’t like Systemd, but it’s still useful to learn, and has a bunch of features that can make life easier…
Regarding the OpenBSD 5.6 review article, there is a way to get binary updates for security patches.
m:tier provides a binary update service for free. See https://stable.mtier.org/.
m:tier is a strong supporter of OpenBSD and provides professional OpenBSD desktops to many fortune 500 companies, http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633.
Otherwise great article!
Hi Peter,
I did allude to that in the review (“There are some third-party providers of binary updates”), but it’d be great to have m:tier work directly with the OpenBSD team to get binary updates out-of-the-box. Still, every time I spend a while with OpenBSD I like it more and more — it’s probably my favourite OS after GNU/Linux now! Well, except for MikeOS of course 🙂
Sorry, I must have missed that. Agree that direct OpenBSD support would be better still.