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Roundup: Lightweight distros.

How mad is Max? Not mad enough to buy an electric car, just yet.

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A mighty flagship killer that happens to be more open than most.

Mabox Linux 24.07
A spin of Manjaro, which is a spin of Arch, is leaving the normally centred Nate Drake in a right tizzy.

Fritzing 1.0.3
Les Pounder spends most of his work hours looking at circuit diagrams, then does the same thing after work.

How to build a 6502 assembler
David Bolton shows how to create a 6502 assembler in C#, highlighting the problems you need to overcome.

Gnoppix 24.4.15
Nate Drake drills down into the newly resurrected Gnoppix – a distro boasting great privacy features and AI integration.

Secure chat services
When chatting, we want to know that our secrets are kept safe, so Michael Reed is taking a look at five security-conscious chat systems..

Garuda Linux 240428
Nate Drake seldom applies the words ‘luxurious’ or ‘sumptuous’ to an OS, but in Garuda’s case, he makes an exception.

Terminal emulators
We all need a terminal emulator at some point in our computing lives in order to access the Linux command line. Michael Reed examines five advanced options.

All your Pis, under your control
No one would say Les Pounder has gone power mad, but he’s cackling like a Bond villain now he can control all the Pis...

Calculate Linux 20240401
Nate Drake crunches the numbers with Calculate Linux and finds it earns top marks for its performance and features.

Create turn-based internet games
David Bolton takes inspiration from his past and explains what postal games are, and what’s needed to create and run one.

Creality K1C
Constantly demanding perfection, Denise Bertacchi is finally pleased with Creality. Well, almost..

UPGRADE TO UBUNTU 24.04 LTS
The latest Ubuntu is here. Jonni Bidwell has come out of hibernation just to celebrate and (in between cake and tea) tell you all about it.

Build your own oscilloscope
Discover how to build an oscilloscope with a Raspberry Pi Pico, an old Android device and a spare Les Pounder.

LINUX INVADES WNIDOWS | How the plucky Tux rebels infiltrated and took over Windows and Microsoft! 

SMOOTH STARTUPS | Explore the Linux init to gain speed and control

VALVE PROTON | Fix game glitches on your Steam Deck

GAME STREAMING | The hacked Nvidia open source gaming system

Retrogaming distros
Michael Reed takes a look at five different systems that can turn a computer into a retrogaming paradise, ready to play the games of his youth.

The paw-fect distro
Animal lover Nick Peers can hardly ‘container’ himself after taking the Puppy Linux developer’s new distribution for a good run off the lead.

THE 5 BEST NEW DISTROS
Blast off into the future with Matt Holder as he explores the technology powering a new generation of Linux distributions.

Official Pi 5 Case
Can the new official Raspberry Pi 5 case keep the Pi 5 cool? Les Pounder is on the case, stop groaning at the back!

Ultramarine Linux 39
Nate Drake decides to take this Thai Fedora-based distro for a spin and finds it fast, simple and surprisingly customisable.

Rise and fall (and rise) of Basic
We plot the symbolic milestones of the most basic of all-purpose code with the informative instruction of the multilingual Mike Bedford.

OSGeoLive 16.0
Uncharted no more – Nate Drake maps out the array of geospatial tools on offer in the specialist distro OSGeoLive.

Kubuntu 23.10
Nate Drake explores the lavish new Plasma desktop in the latest Kubuntu. Is this the greatest KDE-based distro to date?

Creality K1 Max
Always a big fan of fancy, Denise Bertacchi has taken a shine to the K1’s bigger, shinier brother..

Raspberry Pi 5 killers
Industrial and professional single-board computer use can be a hairy business. Tam Hanna has seen it all, though, and guides you along.

Create a Pico USB camera trigger
Les Pounder’s drawers are full of old tech. No, he’s not smuggling technology, but he is reusing it in this project...

STREAMING MADE SIMPLE!
Release your media with open source Jellyfin and enjoy it wherever and whenever you want! 

Mageia 9
Nate Drake visits the spiritual successor to Mandriva Linux and comes away completely enchanted.

Old World
A 4X (Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate) game? Management is all ears and demands Fraser Brown plays it.

OPNSense 23.
Nate Drake has the good sense to try out OPNSense, a top-notch firewall distro based on FreeBSD.

Personal cloud servers
Michael Reed compares five open source cloud servers to find out whether they’re really free, what it takes to install them and if you should store your data on them!

Murena Fairphone 4
Fairest of them all, Jonni Bidwell is excited by an ethical smartphone that comes with a privacy-respecting operating system.

RP2040 Mini Dev Board
Les Pounder loves all his Pi collection, but sometimes there’s some he simply can’t love as much…

Create Flutter desktop apps
David Bolton shows how to set up a Flutter dev environment on Linux and how a simple calculator in Flutter works..

Sovol SV06
Denise Bertacchi wonders what the result would be if an Ender and a Prusa MK3 had a baby. She might have found the answer…

Debian 12 Bookworm
Nate Drake burrows into Debian 12 Bookworm and is dazzled by the array of new features, including support for non-free firmware.

Fedora 38
Sunday driver Nate Drake took the latest release of Fedora for a test drive and was blown away by the vast array of new spins and features.

Peropesis 2.1
Nate Drake grapples with the ultraminimalist Peropesis. Will he relive Linux’s glory days, recover a corrupted system or have a breakdown?

Free all the things!
One of the brains behind Collabora Online, Michael Meeks talks to us about taking open source office to the cloud and document liberation.

LIGHTSPEED UBUNTU
Fitness guru Jonni Bidwell is here to trim down your Ubuntu installations for summer. Not a single star jump required.

Python virtual environments
Les Pounder loves dancing to Jamiroquai’s ‘Virtual Insanity’, but prefers losing himself in Python’s virtual environments.

Spice up your Python console apps
Matt Holder demonstrates how to use the Python Rich library to add formatting to your console applications.

Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster
Nate Drake discovers this Lobster Linux to be a snappy dresser, as it’s turned out in the stunning latest version of Gnome and improved settings.

Art beyond the canvas
Tam Hanna puts on his artist’s smock and takes an in-depth look at running the Stable Diffusion image generator on a local Linux computer.

Lightweight desktops
In search of extra speed and efficient use of resources, Michael Reed checks out the best lightweight desktop environments for your Linux setup.

Biqu Hurakan
Forever cleaning surfaces with isopropyl alcohol, Denise Bertacchi wonders whether this is the printer for her..

THE BEST OPEN SOURCE APPS - Unrestricted, fully featured and totally free – all the software you need to unleash your PC!

DUMP TWITTER - Get started with the Mastodon social craze.

Linux Mint 21.1 Vera
Nate Drake meets Linux Mint’s latest offering, code-named Vera, and comes away bowled over by its stunning looks and ease of use.

Packaging formats
There’s a number of ways of getting software on to your Linux-powered computer, and Michael Reed is comparing them to find out which is best.

Kali Linux 2022.04
If you exist in the grey twilight between good and evil, and want to look cool while doing it, David Rutland has just the deitybased distro for you.

Contributing for non-coders
Aaron Peters, who is a coding tinkerer at best, describes some ways that nontechnical folks can contribute to open source projects.

Voyager Live 22.10
Nate Drake talks peanut butter and jelly as he explores the glorious union of Gnome and Xfce in a single OS. You’ll never look at your desktop the same way again.

Open source RAW photography
Linux offers all the pro-level tools you could possibly need for better photos. Karsten Günther is your top-tips guide though the jungle of RAW tools.

The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow
The Management loves digging up dirt, especially on Ian Evenden in this pixel-art pseudo horror set in the more horrifying North of England, eee by gum!

Pimoroni Tufty 2040
Create a full-colour badge or even display live sensor data, using an RP2040 chip sandwiched deliciously to a tiny display. Les Pounder mulls the possibilities..

Openmamba 3.6.21
Before running this indie distro David Rutland was hoping for something of a snake theme with Openmamba. Instead, he got Red Hat with a KDE Plasma desktop.

Lightweight distros
Michael Reed takes a look at five distributions that make the most of limited hardware while still offering an impressive desktop experience..

KDE Neon 2022.08
David Rutland finds that KDE is a delight to behold and regardless of whether it’s a ‘real’ distro, it’s a charming and relaxing place to do his Linuxing.

Creative writing tools
Struggling to compose a story? Nick Peers reviews five tools that all provide more than a simple writing environment to help bring your novels to life..

Condres OS 1.0 
Mayank Sharma isn’t usually so easily fooled, but the fear of missing deadlines made him drink old, odourless wine from a new bottle.

Create a custom LCD menu 
Les Pounder “cranks that dial” to relive his youth of soldering irons and 1980s electronics, when a ‘bit’ was a relatively unknown concept.

MakuluLinux Shift
Michael Reed is wowed by the visual bling of MakuluLinux, a distro that claims to be ‘game ready’ thanks to its many preinstalled components.

Adding distance sensors
Les Pounder merges two low-cost, yet complex ultrasonic sensors to create one must-have Pi-powered gadget that anyone can use.

Open Media Vault 6
Old wine in a new bottle is such a cliché, but that’s exactly how Mayank Sharma likes his software to grow and evolve, especially when it can save your bacon.

Waveshare CM4-Nano-B
Les Pounder looks at Waveshare’s Compute Module 4 carrier board that offers Raspberry Pi 4 performance in a near Zero-sized package

Hackers Toolkit 2022 - Jonni Bidwell unpacks Parrot Security OS and reveals how to use its formidable arsenal of hacking tools.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D - Dave James contemplates what it means for a processor that’s supposed to help games run faster but on Linux has its strengths with machine learning…

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