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COMMUNITY COMPUTING
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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).

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July 2020
Playing chess in your terminal
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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…

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July 2020
Into the Breach
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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…

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July 2020
Regolith Linux 1.4
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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…

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July 2020
UBUNTU BLASTS OFF!
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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…

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July 2020
AMD Athlon 3000G
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AMD Athlon 3000G

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

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July 2020
The End Of 32-Bit?
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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.

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June 2020
TUX RACER
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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!

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June 2020
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UNPEELING THE ONION BROWSER

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

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June 2020
FuryBSD 12.1
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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.

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June 2020
Mailserver
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Mailserver

Write to us at Linux Format, Future Publishing, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA or lxf.letters@futurenet.com.

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June 2020
Bodhi Linux 5.1
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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.

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June 2020
Argon One for Pi 4
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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.

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June 2020
AntiX 19.2
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AntiX 19.2

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

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June 2020
VIRTUALISE ALL THE THINGS
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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.

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April 2020
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
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THE RAZOR'S EDGE

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

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April 2020
PsychOS 3.4.6
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PsychOS 3.4.6

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

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April 2020
PrimeOS 0.4.5
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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.

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April 2020
Linux Lite 4.8
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Linux Lite 4.8

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

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April 2020
GhostBSD 20.1
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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.

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April 2020
Dwarf Fortress
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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.

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April 2020
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB

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

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April 2020
On the disc
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On the disc

Discover the highlights from this month’s packed DVD!

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March 2020
Streaming from the command line
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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.

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March 2020
Life is Strange 2
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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.

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March 2020
WHEN LINUX WON'T DO
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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.

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March 2020
EXPLODING FIREWALLS
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EXPLODING FIREWALLS

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

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March 2020
OpenIndiana 2019.10
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OpenIndiana 2019.10

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

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January 2020
MidnightBSD 1.2
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MidnightBSD 1.2

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

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January 2020
Fedora 31
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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?

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January 2020