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Garuda Linux 210101

Mayank Sharma has enjoyed one Arch-based distribution this month, but will lightning strike twice or has he been taken in by the distro’s tall claims?

BETTER VIRTUAL MACHINES

Forget about the draconian confines of reality and immerse yourself (well, your computing) in a virtual world. Jonni Bidwell’s here with a machines-inside-machines extravaganza.

Raspberry Pi Pico

In a break from the norm Les Pounder tests the latest Pi: a $4 microcontroller featuring the first ‘Pi Silicon’ created by Raspberry Pi.

RebornOS 2020.12.28

The constant deluge of Arch-based distros can put anyone to sleep, but this one makes Mayank Sharma wake up from his slumber.

Rescuezilla 2.1

With perennial fat fingers, Mayank Sharma has been messing with hard disks long enough to know that good rescue tools are worth their weight in gold.

THE LINUX GAMBIT

Jonni Bidwell once again sets a graphics card on fire, this time calculating chess positions…

Decode signals from weather satellites

Weather satellites transmit signals that you can receive and decode to generate images of the Earth. Mike Bedford shows you how.

Wasteland 3

Management simply hates weirdos and snow, so this is a bad time of year for them and they’re taking it out on Jody Macgregor.

A terminal multiple window manager

You can’t use the mouse or run multiple windows in a text environment… unless you’re Shashank Sharma and know just the right tool for the job.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

As Alan Dexter discovers, this chip may be the runt of the Zen 3 family, but it delivers where it counts most: gaming.

AMD Radeon RX 6800

The RX 6800 not only delivers 1,440p performance, it demolishes the RTX 2080 Ti at 4K, too says Jacob Ridley.

Slackel 7.4

Before he couldn’t work with Arch, he couldn’t work with Slackware, which is why Mayank Sharma jumps at everything that mentions the venerable distro.

RetroPie 4.7.1

Les Pounder loves retrogaming and Raspberry Pi, so with RetroPie and the new Raspberry Pi 400 the question is: will he find his Nirvana?

Emulate classic Apple computers

Les Pounder goes back to his distant college days and reveals how to emulate the Apple desktop machines that he used for work and play.

Get coding on the Raspberry Pi 64-bit

John Schwartzman demos using assembly language code for the 64-bit Raspberry Pi to call Linux kernel services and the C run-time library.

MANJARO Quickly install Manjaro on the Pi 4

Les Pounder reveals how to get Manjaro Arm up and running on the Raspberry Pi 4 / 400, and start using the GPIO with Python.

RISE OF THE ROBOTS

Mats Tage Axelsson presents the basics of a robotics operating system and reveals what components can be used…

Next-gen terminals

Discover the next-gen terminal tools with David Rutland that will transform your command-line life.

Enhance your photos by stacking them

Combining multiple photos of the same scene using a stacking technique can result in some spectacular results, reveals Mike Bedford.

Elementary OS lands on the Raspberry Pi

The world is getting armed and dangerous, as another distro joins the Raspberry Pi army.

How To Build Internet Of Thing Devices

The Raspberry Pi can be used with other programming languages, including one designed for the Internet of Things, reveals Les Pounder.

Partitioning disks from the command line

Formatting and partitioning hard disk isn’t the exclusive domain of graphical tools. Shashank Sharma reveals the utilities that can make space for Linux.

Top 10 Ubuntu tips

Nick Peers reveals the answers to some of the web’s most-searched questions about Ubuntu to deliver 10 unmissable tips.

Programming a Turing Machine

It was the computer that started it all, albeit in theory. Mike Bedford shows you how to program a Turing Machine and put it through its paces.

Run the classic Amstrad CPC 464

Les Pounder goes back to the 80s, when Alan Sugar hired more people than he fired and computers came built inside the keyboards. Madness!

Ubuntu 20.10

The Groovy Gorilla is out. Jonni Bidwell wonders if he might finally meet his spirit animal, or if he’ll be maimed.

Emulation-free Amiga AROS

Fed up with modern indulgence and bulky nonsense, John Knight tries PC computing the Amiga way, with the AROS operating system.

LINUX ON THE GO

Jonni Bidwell’s desktop PC  exploded, but fret not – he’s found  that Linux works great on laptops.  And phones. And Chromebooks.

PACKAGE DELIVERY

Add your own Linux software to the ecosystem. Michael Reed looks at what it takes to become a package maintainer.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

The Zen 3 architecture packing Ryzen 9 5900X moves AMD out of Intel’s shadow to take centre stage. Jarred Wilton and Alan Dexter are impressed.