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Ubuntu Unity 22.10

Nate Drake takes you on a trip down memory lane as the Unity Desktop makes its official comeback to Ubuntu.

Voyager Live 22.10

Nate Drake explores the glorious union of Gnome and Xfce in a single OS. You'll never look at your desktop the same way again.

AntiX-22

Nate Drake discovers there's lots to love about the fast, lightweight and stable operating system that is AntiX.

Improve your typing

Years ago, when Shashank Sharma had more hair on his scalp than cheeks, he decided to master touch-typing. With these tools, so can you.

PiKISS v1.10.0

Les Pounder is getting to an age where things need to be simple, so when someone said \"Keep It Simple, Stupid\", he took no offence.

Phrozen Sonic 8K

Bigger prints, finer details, Linux support - is that all too much for a girl to ask for, Denise Bertacchi wonders?

Build your own bespoke USB device

Les Pounder uses his snake charming skills again to prove how easy it is to make USB devices with Python and the cheapest of Pis.

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.

The Audacity of it

We chat with Martin Keary about the new features of Audacity, managing a community and the pitfalls of telemetry.

ESCAPE WINDOWS

Looking for a practical alternative to Windows? Nick Peers reveals how to set up and use the extremely user-friendly Elementary OS.

AmOs 22.08.02

Mayank Sharma always falls for beautiful-looking Arch distros, but he wonders if this one does enough to appeal to others...

FEATHER-LIGHT WEATHER MONITOR

Jonni Bidwell doesn't fake it till he makes it. Makes a Pi-powered environment monitor, that is...

Flirc Pi 4 Case

Les Pounder settles down to watch a film, blast some aliens and does a spot of low-power computing while his Raspberry Pi 4 stays cool.

W5100S-EVB-Pico

Les Pounder wants to add another device to the Internet of Things. "Just a 'pico'-sized project from WIZnet," he promises...

Relive the days of BeOS

Michael Reed wonders if he's met the 90s-style desktop of his dreams with Haiku, an open source re-creation of the BeOS operating system.

Organise your fonts and create new ones

Nick Peers reveals how to manage your font collection as well as design new typefaces from scratch using a collection of open source tools.

Run a modern, focused, alternative to Vim

While Shashank Sharma is quite fond of the text editor Vim, he realises that it can overwhelm new users. Thankfully, a simplified variant is on offer...

Porteus 5.0

Mayank Sharma has a soft spot for portable distros, and wonders if the latest Porteus can wean him away from his all-time favourite, Slax.

Total War: Warhammer 3

Management thought the Realm of Chaos was its hot-desking floor, but Fraser Brown knows better and is perma-working from home...

ANALOG ZERO: Get to grips with analog electronic control

Les Pounder "cranks that dial" to relive his youth of soldering irons and 1980s electronics, when a 'bit' was a relatively unknown concept.

GET INTO CODING!

Code monkey Jonni Bidwell's firmware has glitched out, so he must teach himself to code again. He hopes you'll join him for the adventure...

Samsung MUF-256DA

Ganesh T S has never had such a fast thumb... drive!

Inscryption

We're not trapped in here with The Management, they're trapped in here with Jody Macgregor. And that's just the way we like it.

EasyOS 4.2

Michael Reed tries a Linux distribution that's suitable for extremely limited hardware, and finds that it breaks with conventions in some areas.

MakuluLinux Shift

Michael Reed is wowed by the visual bling of MakuluLinux, a distro that claims to be 'game ready' thanks to its many pre-installed components.

Intel Core i3-12100

A lowly quad-core serves up big performance gains, finds Paul Alcorn.

Relive the classic ARM-based RISC OS

RISC OS is an operating system with a fascinating history that dates back decades. Michael Reed tries it out in its current incarnation.

GIMP batch processing

have Tackling mass image processing is a walk in the park when you Karsten Günther on your side and BIMP installed alongside GIMP.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Management doesn't like self-referential things. It just reminds them they're a simple strapline-based comedy construct of Christopher Livingston.

Waveshare CM4-NANO

Les Pounder looks at Waveshare's Compute Module 4 carrier board that offers Raspberry Pi 4 performance in a near Zero-sized package.