{"product_id":"2940015799613","title":"Linux Journal December 2012","description":"A quick overview of what's in this special Readers' Choice issue:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * 2012 Readers' Choice Awards\u003cbr\u003e * Grive: the Open-Source Client for Google Drive\u003cbr\u003e * Get Started with Raspberry Pi\u003cbr\u003e * A Look at the New Features in GIMP 2.8\u003cbr\u003e * Reviewed: Nexus 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetailed overview: Data, Data Everywhere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I was younger, I read a lot of books. Although they've fallen out of\u003cbr\u003estyle, some of my favorite books were of the \"Choose Your Own\u003cbr\u003eAdventure\" variety. The only downside is that three or four nested page-turning decisions\u003cbr\u003einto the book, I'd run out of fingers to hold my place. See, I didn't want\u003cbr\u003eto commit to the wrong choice. (I may have missed the point of those books.)\u003cbr\u003eBased on feedback from last year, I suspect most of you read \"Choose Your\u003cbr\u003eOwn Adventure\" books in the same way. After last year's Readers' Choice\u003cbr\u003eissue, you wanted more data! This year, we obliged and are are giving you the full\u003cbr\u003eresults, down to tenths of percentage points. (Those writing in for more\u003cbr\u003eprecise numbers will get *such a pinch*!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNormally with the Readers' Choice issue, I feign laziness and\u003cbr\u003eclaim that readers have done all the heavy lifting. This issue, however,\u003cbr\u003eis chock full of interesting articles. Reuven M. Lerner starts off with\u003cbr\u003ehis annual book roundup. I always struggle with which books are worth\u003cbr\u003emy time, and Reuven aims to help with that problem. Dave Taylor, on the\u003cbr\u003eother hand, gives a lesson in stdin, stdout and stderr. If you've\u003cbr\u003eever been confused about adding 2\u0026gt;\u0026amp;1 to the end of your cron jobs,\u003cbr\u003eDave will enlighten you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKyle Rankin takes us to the depths of system administration with his\u003cbr\u003ereal-life data-center problems (his own data center). There's no way to\u003cbr\u003elearn Linux administration quite like doing it, so follow along with\u003cbr\u003eKyle and his escapades, and be sure to take notes. I follow Kyle with\u003cbr\u003emy Open-Source Classroom column and reach for the opposite end of\u003cbr\u003ethe server spectrum: the Raspberry Pi. Although the RPi can do countless\u003cbr\u003ecool things, when it first arrives in its tiny little box, it can be a\u003cbr\u003ebit overwhelming. I do my best to make your first taste of Pi a little\u003cbr\u003esweeter and show you some cool things along the way. If you bought a\u003cbr\u003eRaspberry Pi, but don't know where to begin, I can hook you up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you follow me on Twitter, you know I whine rather regularly about\u003cbr\u003ewanting a Nexus 7 tablet. Although the gift-giving fairies at Google\u003cbr\u003eapparently don't subscribe to my tweets, Philip Raymond helps a little\u003cbr\u003ethis month with his review of the Nexus. The downside is that now I want\u003cbr\u003ea Nexus 7 even more, and since Google recently has released an updated\u003cbr\u003emodel with cellular options, I'm hoping Santa Claus reads my tweets!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeaking of Google, if you're a faithful fan of its products,\u003cbr\u003eyet feel abandoned by the lack of a native Google Drive application,\u003cbr\u003eMehdi Poustchi Amin might soothe those wounds with his introduction to\u003cbr\u003eGrive. Grive is an open-source implementation of Google Drive, and it aims\u003cbr\u003eto bring Google's latest feature to the penguiny masses. Google still\u003cbr\u003epromises that a Linux native client is in the works, but Grive is open source,\u003cbr\u003eand it's available now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough it's a bit of a spoiler, the GIMP has won favorite\u003cbr\u003eGraphics\/Design Tool in our Readers' Choice survey once again. That's \u003cbr\u003enot likely a surprise to anyone who ever has edited a photo in Linux, but\u003cbr\u003ein light of our readers' votes year after year, we've included Shashwat Pant's introduction\u003cbr\u003eto GIMP 2.8. This trusty editor is sporting a brand-new UI this season,\u003cbr\u003eand looking at its current iteration, a victory for the GIMP in next year's Readers' Choice \u003cbr\u003eis looking like a big likelihood as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe main feature of this issue is the Readers' Choice results. If\u003cbr\u003eyou wonder where you line up with the bulk of our readers, or if you're\u003cbr\u003ejust curious about what companies are currently the most Linux-friendly,\u003cbr\u003eyou're reading the right issue. We also have product reviews, product\u003cbr\u003eannouncements and many other helpful, geeky things to make this\u003cbr\u003eissue useful and entertaining. To begin your adventure, turn to page 10\u003cbr\u003enow. To reread this article, turn to page 8. To start your adventure anew,\u003cbr\u003eturn to page 1....\u003cbr\u003e--Shawn Powers","brand":"Linux Journal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084574703856,"sku":"2940015799613","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015799613_p0.jpg?v=1763624499","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015799613","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}