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FASTER, BETTER SERVERS!

As the dust settles following Red Hat’s winding down of CentOS, Jonni Bidwell looks for alternative server distributions.

Getting to grips with breadboards

Mike Bedford provides a hands-on guide to using breadboards for those starting out with the Raspberry Pi or other single-board computer projects.

WEB APP SECURITY

Former Dark lord of network operations Tim Armstrong teaches the mystical arts of systems, security and keeping your stuff secret and safe.

Aorus Gen4 7000s

Gigabyte’s SSD is the fastest storage this side of Sean Webster’s oiled drawers.

Bodhi Linux 6.0

Mayank Sharma isn’t embarrassed to admit that there’s something about Enlightenment-based distros that makes him go weak in the knees.

GeckoLinux Rolling

With openSUSE being the only real KDE distro that he’s ever found tolerable, Mayank Sharma wonders if a spin can add anything to that experience.

NomadBSD 130R

While Mayank Sharma has tried a couple of BSD desktop spins, none of them has offered a compelling reason for him to keep them around… until now.

OSGeoLive 14.0

Being cooped up in his home office, Mayank Sharma’s quest to travel the world leads him to a distro that brings the world to him.

Silicon Dreams

Management loves to treat the staff like robots. A defiant Luke Kemp can confirm that they’re certainly not human…

Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K

Print with more pixels per inch than an iPhone 12 Pro, says Andrew Sink.

Intel Core i5 11600K

It’s a chip that tickles Dave James’ price/performance sensibilities.

Samsung 980 1TB SSD

A strange drive for stranger times, says a perfectly normal Alan Dexter.

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Navi 22 joins the GPU party, trimming core counts, die size and price, as Jarred Walton discovers. If only you could get your hands on it…

ALL YOUR DATABASE ARE BELONG TO US

With the help of Patrick McFadin, the Datastax database guru, Jonni Bidwell gets a handle on the wherefore and why of Kubernetes.

A Parent's Guide To Programming

Mike Bedford investigates which languages to consider if you want to help your children get a head-start in coding.

CentOS Stream 8

Mayank Sharma takes a look at the distro that has the open source community up in arms, to see what the hullabaloo is all about.

Terminal multiplexer

Shashank Sharma is enthralled by screen multiplexers, and Byobu presents an elegant and efficient approach to managing multiple windows.

SparkyLinux 2021.03

Its rather unimpressive-looking screenshots intrigued Mayank Sharma, who wants to find how this distro has survived for as long as it has.

SystemRescue 8.0

If you’re as adventurous with your installations as Mayank Sharma, then you too would want to keep a copy of this distro handy…

MX-Fluxbox Pi 21.02.20

Les Pounder is always on the lookout for a new slice of Pi and with MX Linux he discovers something fresh from the oven.

Spiritfarer

In these turbulent times management has shown uncharacteristic compassion and allowed Rachel Watts to contemplate life.

WD Black SN850 1TB

Move over Samsung, there’s a new PCIe 4.0 storage king in town says Alan Dexter, as he reaches for the ermine-lined cloak.

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Zak Storey climbs onto the closest thing the computing industry has to a unicorn, and straps in for the ride of his life.

How To Master Black And White Photography

Mike Bedford reveals the secrets of good black and white photography, an art form that stands alongside its more colourful counterpart.

Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus

A superfast, 2TB second-generation PCIe 4.0 drive that comes in at a decent price? Sign me up, says Alan Dexter.

Vivaldi 3.6

Will someone please stop Jonni Bidwell incessantly whistling the first movement of Four Seasons as he reviews this browser.

Siduction 2021.1.0

Jonni Bidwell is once again seduced by the dark side of the Linux Distribution community, or at least the Debian Sid side.

Cyber Shadow

Management loves saving money, so when Stacey Henley says she’s using fewer pixels and reusing old ideas they were all aboard.

KDE neon 5.21.0

Jonni Bidwell has had it with Gnome, at least for this page, where he dabbles with KDE’s latest desktop delights.

Cosmo Communicator

Is the Linux-compatible Cosmo Communicator PDA out of this world? Christian Cawley boldly launches a five-day mission to find out.