Mabox Linux 20.02
Having convinced himself that the days of striking one-man distros were over, Mayank Sharma is pleasantly surprised when he finds one.

LED Strip HAT Mini
Les Pounder, unlike Gremlins, loves bright lights. So when a new board offered easy access to controllable RGB LEDs, he built a brand new gizmo!

The best Chromebook 2020
If you can see past the snooping nature of Google, Chromebooks are a neat way of accessing the Linux kernel and Linux software, says Neil Mohr.

Top-down arcade games 
Mission controller Calvin Robinson takes us through the basics of programming a 2D top-down perspective video game.

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.

Solving mazes
The a-mazing Mihalis Tsoukalos reveals how graph algorithms and backtracking can be used to quickly provide a solution to a maze..

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Feeling all shook up, Jarred Walton thought AMD was going to shake up the middleaged, when it actually meant just the mid-range GPU market. Sorry

Trident 20.02
As the supposed de-facto BSD desktop metamorphs into a Linux distro, Mayank Sharma is intrigued by its promise to deliver the best of both worlds.

VIRTUALISE EVERYTHING
Bring all your servers, devices and services together with the power of virtualisation tools.

LIBREOFFICE CALC
Use spreadsheets for coding and science.

RASPBERRY Pi PROJECTS Grab your Pi and get building with our top ten maker guides for 2020!.

Deploy Docker the easy way with a Nextcloud server.

CODING CALENDARS Use R and Python to visualise dates and times..

Android-x86 9.0 RC1
As someone who’d think twice before running Android on a smartphone, Mayank Sharma isn’t sold on running it on a PC.

Node-RED thermal monitor
Les Pounder delves further into Node-RED and shows how we can connect sensors and displays to the IoT via MQTT.

Grafana dashboards
Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to install and use Grafana for creating impressive visualisations from external data sources, and build system dashboards..

Clear Linux 31530 
Just as Mayank Sharma was settling into the new Fedora release he thinks he’s found a suitable replacement.

RISC-V business 
Elite hacker Christina Quast discusses security, different methods of hardware attack, and why Jonni Bidwell should no longer tell jokes..

LIGHTER & FASTER Strip Ubuntu back to the bare bones so it
starts, runs and feels quicker than ever!

PLUS! HOW TO…
* STREAM MEDIA
* HACK MINECRAFT
* RECOVER YOUR DATA

Gigabyte Aorus 2TB SSD - This PCIe 4.0 SSD is seriously hot stuff,
says Jeremy Laird. It’s also super fast – for a while. We explain the good the bad and the shiny of the latest SSD technology.

Renaissance Database Man - Jonathan Ellis has successfully made the
transition from the cubicle to the corner office. Mayank Sharma grills him on building databases and breaking Facebook.

Build a Telegram bot - Les Pounder shows us how to create a
Telegram bot that shows system updates and stats from a Raspberry Pi server and broadcast them to the world.

Voyage 10 - Just like its namesake spacecraft that are the furthest man-made probes, Mayank Sharma believes this distro will also go far.

Turtle: Drawing in Minecraft - Calvin Robinson mods Minecraft Pi to work on Linux, so we can code Minecraft mods with Python and add turtle drawing to its bag of block-based tricks.

Raspberry Pi news - The Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit arrives in time for Christmas wishlists, plus scratch your itch for Scratch.

OLED display monitor - Les Pounder shows us how to monitor a Raspberry Pi 4 – running as a file server, for example – with a small screen and a little bit of Python code.

Python: Building in Minecraft - Calvin Robinson hooks mods into the
Minecraft API so that we can directly interface it with some Python programming for faster building – and to do some neat tricks..

Clockwork Pi GameShell kit - Christian Cawley keeps this self-build open source handheld in his back pocket.

Build a better database - Stuart Burns shows how SQL management doesn’t have to be something to be feared if you live with it from an admin’s point of view.

Using analogue HAT interfaces - Les Pounder shows us two more projects using the deceptively simple Explorer HAT Pro – and a little Python code.

Apache Kafka tools - Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to install and create utilities that use Apache Kafka.

Hacking Minecraft with Python - Calvin Robinson creates a custom toolbox for quickly manipulating a Minecraft environment, complete with GUI...

Space station detector- Les Pounder shows us how to create an International Space Station alert system so we never miss it going overhead.

Flask web framework - Mats Tage Axelsson helps you understand the Flask web framework for Python...

Create an information radiator - Les Pounder shows us how to create a low-cost family calender using an old monitor and DAKboard.

InfluxDB, the sexy* database - Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to install,
administer and query InfluxDB, the modern Go-based database optimised for timeseries and IoT sensor systems..

Stop-motion studio - Christian Cawley plays with some Lego and a Pi camera to make a movie – although it’s not quite that simple.

Mailserver- Too much praise – we’ve gone red, scarily clever solutions, hacking RC cars, and we’re going to cover firewalls again..

Linux user groups: Les Pounder celebrates ten wonderful years of OggCamp – plus the latest events, HotPicks: Alexander Tolstoy would just love to help
develop a new generation of nuclear missiles, but he’s already far too busy firing off his own arsenal of weaponised open source software like: Wine, Infinite Image Scroller, Ephemeral, Go-Rsync, FPM,
SteganoGAN, Blessed-Contrib, APFS Fuse, Zopfli, Rabbit Escape, Webq2...

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, News: We catch up with the Librem 5 project, discover EU bug bounties are paying out and wonder what we’ll be doing in 2038...

Linux user groups: Les Pounder charts how 2018 has been a success for the LUG community, and rounds up what’s going on around the UK, Mailserver: One reader converts 100 Eee PC notepads using Lubuntu from the LXF cover disc, someone’s cross about our OCTOCAM review, and suggestions on covering video
upscaling, M.A.M.E., LMMS and GIMP...

Intel Bean Canyon NUC PC: Stuart Burns discovers that power and performance are within your reach in the smallest of Intel’s build-your-own NUC PCs, Sudoku with Go: Mihalis Tsoukalos reveals how to write Go programs that check whether a Sudoku puzzle is correctly solved or not...

News: Microsoft joins the Open Initiative Network
to share patents, Red Hat is bought by IBM,
the sky is falling and oh look a flying pig!, Mailserver: The Editor making mistakes (sheesh – Ed),
wishing for the old days of coding and
wondering about distro security...

Mailserver: Weird things with newsletters, forcibly converting Windows users, loving the MX Linux toolbars and letters make prizes!, Answers: Solving printer problems when using Mint
19, better ways of using LibreOffice Writer, and speeding up a browser’s slow startup...

News: Valve rocks your gaming world by releasing
Steam Play, bringing a torrent of games to
Linux, Linux smashes Windows on AMD
Threadripper CPUs, and Flatpak is one!, Answers: A He-Man reference, a Philip K Dick
reference, a Marcel Proust reference, but
you’ll have to work out the last one yourself...

News: Open source projects are having funding
issues, Vulkan is coming to Android, RISC-V
is coming to India, Mozilla backs open
soure Ultra-HD codecs, while RSS feeds go, Linux user groups: Follow Les Pounder’s advice for making
better Raspberry JAMs. You won’t regret it...

Multi-room control: Nick Peers reveals how to develop your
multi-room audio setup further by adding
touchscreen controllers and Bluetooth, Machine learning bots: Discover how you can identify when your
system’s coming under attack from
malicious bots, with the help of Dan Frost’s
machine-learning expertise...

Netgear ReadyNAS 422: Mark Pickavance proclaims Netgear has
thrown down the gauntlet to other NAS
makers with this solid device, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire: Stuck with the worst river rats to sail the
Severn estuary, Andy Kelly doesn’t like
smell of LFX Towers in the summer...

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X: What’s that Ryzen in the distance? It’s the
second-generation processor shoring up
AMD’s top-end performance range, Gallium OS: Is this the OS you should be running on
your Chromebook? It is if you want a full
Linux distro experience, says John Knight...

Hugo site generator: Mihalis Tsoukalos teaches you how to
use the Hugo Framework – developed
using Google Go – to create a secure web
sites with static files,Maker Life: Getting You Started Kit: Alex Cox tests the painless plug-and-play
Pi programming package for the rest of us...

News: There’s a major Vulkan graphics update, Jolla’s Sailfish OS 3 heads to affordable phones, full Linux apps to appear on ChromeOS and the KDE Slimbook, Python machine learning : Mihalis Tsoukalos teaches you how to
process data using machine-learning...
techniques and Python 3...

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