This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Make a Special Edition, LibreOffice, and Bulk Print with Nautilus * Graphics : Inkscape. * Linux Labs: Compiling a Kernel Pt 5 and Graphically Renaming Files Over SSH * Review: Scilabs * Book Review: Build Your Own Web Site * Ubuntu Games: X-Plane Flight Plans plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, and soooo much more.

This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Program in Python, LibreOffice, and Using LaTeX * Graphics : Inkscape. * Linux Labs: Syncthing * Review: BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Phone & Able2Extract Pro 9 * Competition: WIN a copy of Able2Extract Pro 9 * Ubuntu Games: Penumbra Necrologue & Perfect Golf * My Story special on handling molecules in Linux plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, and soooo much more.

This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : RTL-SDR Radio, LibreOffice, and Ubuntu Kiosk * Graphics : Inkscape. * Linux Labs: Compiling a Kernel Pt 6 and Trying FreeBSD * Review: Ubuntu Mate 14.10 * Book Review: Official Ubuntu Book 8th Edition * Ubuntu Games: X-Plane & FSEconomy, and Unigine Heaven Benchmark plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, and soooo much more.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though suffering multiple wounds, continued to man his machine gun against waves of Japanese aircraft attacking the Kaneohe Bay Naval Station during the infamous Pearl Harbor raid. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a B-29 radioman named Red Erwin lingered near death after suffering horrific burns to save his air crew in the skies off Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions against the Japanese during World War II. They included pilots and crewmen manning fighters and dive bombers and flying boats and bombers. One was a general. Another was a sergeant. Some shot down large numbers of enemy aircraft in aerial combat. Others sacrificed themselves for their friends or risked everything for complete strangers. Who were these now largely forgotten men? Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise “above and beyond”? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost aviator Amelia Earhart—and then they blazed their own trail during World War II.

We Make Each Other Beautiful focuses on woman of color and queer of color artists and artist collectives who engage in direct political action as a part of their art practice. Defined by public protest, rule-breaking, rebellion, and resistance to governmental and institutional abuse, direct-action "artivism" draws on the aims, radical spirit, and tactics of the civil rights and feminist movements and on the struggles for disability rights, queer rights, and immigrant rights to seek legal and social change. Yxta Maya Murray traces the development of artivism as a practice from the Harlem Renaissance to Yoko Ono, Judy Baca, and Marsha P. Johnson. She also studies its role in transforming law and society. We Make Each Other Beautiful profiles the work and lives of four contemporary artivists —Carrie Mae Weems, Young Joon Kwak, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Imani Jacqueline Brown—and the artivist collective Drawn Together, combining new oral histories with sharp analyses of how their diverse and expansive artistic practices bear important aesthetic and politicolegal meanings that address a wide range of injustices.

This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Python, LibreOffice, and Use VLM. * Graphics : JPG>PDF, and Inkscape. * Review: USB Microscope plus: Q&A, Linux Labs, Software Showdown, Ask The New Guy, My Story, and soooo much more!

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