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From the Editor—Doc Searls

Our Immodest Ambitions  

Letters

Letters to the editor  

UPFRONT

FOSS Project Spotlight: the Codelobster IDE—a Free PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript Editor  by Stanislav Ustimenko

FOSS Project Spotlight: WallpaperDownloader  by Eloy Garcia Almaden

Patreon and Linux Journal   

Drawing Feynman Diagrams for Fun and Profit with JaxoDraw  by Joey Bernard

News Briefs  

Columns

Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Piventory: LJ Tech Editor's Personal Stash of Raspberry Pis and Other Single-Board Computers  

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Introducing PyInstaller  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   The LJ Password Generator Tool  

Zack Brown's diff -u   What's New in Kernel Development  

Glyn Moody's Open Sauce   OpenStreetMap Should Be a Priority for the Open Source Community  

Deep Dive: DIY

Why You Should Do It Yourself  by Kyle Rankin

Bring back the DIY movement and start with your own Linux servers.

DIY: RV Offsite Backup and Media Server  by Kyle Rankin

What better way to add a geeky touch to #vanlife than with a Linux server in your RV?

DIY: Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source  by Petros Koutoupis

Follow along with this step-by-step guide to build your own distribution from source and learn how it installs, loads and runs.

Building a Voice-Controlled Front End to IoT Devices  by Michael J. Hammel

Apple, Google and Amazon are taking voice control to the next level. But can voice control be a DIY Project? Turns out, it can. And, it isn't as hard as you might think.

Articles

Open Hardware: Good for Your Brand, Good for Your Bottom Line  by VM (Vicky) Brasseur

With the rise of IoT, we're inside a short window where "open" is a strong differentiator for hardware products. Is your company ready to take advantage of it?

Linux Gets Loud  by Joshua Curry

Exploring the current state of musical Linux with interviews of developers of popular packages.

Enter Jakarta EE: an Inoculation Against Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in the Java Community  by Dennis Gesker

Why I stopped worrying and learned to love changes in governance and branding.

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