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COMMUNITY COMPUTING

Erstwhile scourge of the community Jonni Bidwell meets  community hacker Jona Azizaj at the Open Source  Summit to talk hacking and happiness (packets).

Playing chess in your terminal

Jonni still hasn’t written a 10-page feature on chess, so Neil Mohr starts playing the classic strategy game in his terminal while he waits…

Into the Breach

Management has run out of minions to throw against the hostile alien bugs. Unfortunately, that just leaves Alex Wiltshire as our last line of defence…

Regolith Linux 1.4

Jonni Bidwell has found his true calling: to bring tiling window managers to the masses. Listen now to his sermon, and get ready to believe…

UBUNTU BLASTS OFF!

Ubuntu is back  and it’s better  than ever. Read  on to find out why Jonni Bidwell  is out of this  world over this  new release…

AMD Athlon 3000G

No one calls Christian Guyton cheap, but he is cheap and thus loves this chip!

The End Of 32-Bit?

Working from his fortress of solitude,  Jonni Bidwell investigates the options for 32-bit users now  that future versions of Ubuntu won’t be  supporting them.

TUX RACER

Dan Cauchy brings Jonni Bidwell up to  speed on Automotive Grade Linux, coming  soon to a car – or even a boat – near you!

UNPEELING THE ONION BROWSER

Discover how you can mask your web browsing and how governments track you, with a little help from Neil Mohr.

FuryBSD 12.1

As he attempts another BSD-based desktop, Mayank Sharma is furious with himself for picking review candidates without first taking them for a spin.

Mailserver

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Bodhi Linux 5.1

Although Mayank Sharma would have you believe that he’s a grown man and this is just a distro, he can’t wipe that grin off his (beautiful) mug.

Argon One for Pi 4

Les Pounder is trying to keep his cool, but another case and cooling solution for the Raspberry Pi 4 has him a little hot under the collar.

AntiX 19.2

Jonni Bidwell is all for lightweight antics, but projects that make their initial letter lowercase are frowned upon at LXF Towers…

VIRTUALISE ALL THE THINGS

Fed up with breaking Linux installs, and Linux  installs breaking him, Jonni Bidwell looks to  virtualisation to ease his very real woes.

THE RAZOR'S EDGE

More tales from Jonni Bidwell’s pilgrimage to the  2019 Open Source Summit –  this time from virtualisation  guru Erik Nordmark.

PsychOS 3.4.6

Forever 90s’ Jonni Bidwell finds nostalgia and confusion in a weird lightweight/heavyweight superposition of distro-space.

PrimeOS 0.4.5

John Knight reviews a beautiful and promising desktop Android distro, but before falling in love he finds it clouded by a particularly thorny issue.

Linux Lite 4.8

As the lightweight distro now welcomes Windows 7 EOLers, Mayank Sharma wonders if Lite is the right option?

GhostBSD 20.1

There were many people who said BSD didn’t have a ghost of a chance on the desktop. Mayank Sharma was one of them.

Dwarf Fortress

Management’s wondering what Steve Hogarty has been up to in the LXF Server Dungeon, but it’s nothing to worry about, he’s digging a hole to hell.

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB

Jarred Walton tries out AMD’s “just north of mid-range” graphics offering.

On the disc

Discover the highlights from this month’s packed DVD!

Streaming from the command line

Shashank Sharma won’t ever stop singing the praises of the command line, and applications like Musikcube, are the reason why.

Life is Strange 2

Management’s heard that Alistair Jones is going through puberty again so have stocked up on spot cream, but he’s just eaten too much chocolate.

WHEN LINUX WON'T DO

Jonni Bidwell meets Kate Stewart, senior director of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation, to talk about Zephyr, licenses, garbage trucks and reindeer.

EXPLODING FIREWALLS

Protect yourself from whatever is the packet-based   equivalent of fire with Jonni Bidwell’s firewall primer.

OpenIndiana 2019.10

On the way back from his detour to BSD-land, Mayank Sharma runs into another promising open source Unix release.

MidnightBSD 1.2

His soft spot for lone warriors lures Mayank Sharma to the land of MidnightBSD, but he doesn’t escape completely unscathed.

Fedora 31

Mayank Sharma may have upgraded his workstation to get this as soon as it was released, but did it live up to expectations?