Gameshell Kit

Need to take your love of retro gaming everywhere you go? Check out the open source handheld ClockworkPi GameShell, says Christian Cawley.

Protect Your Privacy

The government wants your data, but they don’t understand tech.  Facebook and Google want your  data – and they do. Jonni Bidwell  tries to disappoint them all.

Behind-The-Scenes Guide To Cryptography

Interested in the inner working of cryptographic tools? Mike Bedford provides a hands-on introduction to the technology of cryptography.

Calculate Linux 18.12

Always looking to cut corners, Mayank Sharma tries out a distro that promises to enhance his geek credentials without making him work for it.

Lull'd By Soft Zephyr

Thea Aldrich assures Jonni Bidwell that with a well-designed  operating system IoT might not end humanity after all.

Septor 2019

Mayank Sharma has a soft spot for projects that promise to protect his privacy. But is this one any better than his current favourite, Tails?

Adata Su630 480GB

Turns out QLC isn’t quite more storage for free. Jeremy laird digs a little deeper…

On The Disc

Discover the highlights from this month’s packed DVD!

HardenedBSD 12

Spooked by the recent string of vulnerabilities in critical components like systemd, Mayank Sharma is looking beyond Linux to protect his cat GIFs.

Life Science

Jonni Bidwell, long suspected of being a robot, hears from  Claire Janisch about the secrets and genius of nature.

Deepin 15.9

Mayank Sharma is glad he didn’t heed the advice of his peers who told him to avoid the gremlin-like cuteness of this distro.

Parrot 4.5

Having reaped the benefits of Kali Linux already, Mayank Sharma wonders what new things Parrot can offer in this saturated space.

Voice Controlled Smart Home

If you utter “Siri”, “Alexa” or “OK Google” in Jonni Bidwell’s home, all the lights go off and the router disconnects.

Kali Linux 2019.1

Once again we have only a single distribution this month, but this time we’re not neglecting our 32-bit users, with 64- and 32-bit versions of Kali Linux.

Debug Serial Comms

Sean Conway walks you through the process of troubleshooting communication problems between a PC application and a serial device.

Emmabuntüs De 2 1.04

Not a big fan of the kitchen-sink approach, Mayank Sharma runs into one distro that’s put in enough effort to perform surprisingly well.

Fedora 30/Ubuntu 19.04

Mayank Sharma wonders just what separates the two leading Gnome-based distros – besides their packaging formats…

Picture In A Mainframe

Jonni Bidwell wants to know if he could install Linux on the mainframe at Future Towers. The Open Mainframe Project’s John Mertic has all the answers.

MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G

Nvidia’s new GPU brings merely a modest boost in performance, thinks Jarred Walton.

Robolinux 10.5

Mayank Sharma isn’t too gullible in real life, but has an uncanny tendency to fall for distros that then don’t deliver on the claims they make.

Quantum Computing

Mats Tage Axelsson introduces you to quantum computing, the coolest tech around. Learn how it works and how you can get started.

Ubuntu 18.04 Gear Up!

There’s a new Ubuntu LTS in town, with a whole new desktop to entice and amaze you. Jonni Bidwell rolls out the orange carpet…

ProgressIve SessIons

Jonni Bidwell talks progressive web apps with Enonic’s co-founder Thomas Sigdestad.

ExaGear Desktop

In his eternal quest for more Pi power, Les Pounder would give an ARM and maybe a leg to run x86 code on his Raspberry Pi.

Google Pixelbook

Hand on heart, this is the best Chromebook to date that Joe Osborne has ever used – or indeed paid for.

Ledger HW.1

An affordable and highly portable ‘hardware wallet’ for your bitcoins, a better bet than your puny UK pounds 

Daydream View

We say Matt Swider is lost in his own world, he says it’s actually Android VR that has finally become a reality.

Deus Ex: MD

Being a game journalist Andy Kelly is used to people not liking him, he just wished he had super-human implants too, so he could punch them in the face.

Crucial MX300 2TB

The only writer we know who’s owned multiple Porsches, Jeremy Laird  sullies his hands with the cheapest 2TB SSD in town.

4MLinux 21.0

Ambitiously minimalist distros can be quite a tempting bait, but will Shashank Sharma bite on this occasion?