In this issue

Rescuezilla 2.1
With perennial fat fingers, Mayank Sharma has been messing with hard disks long enough to know that good rescue tools are worth their weight in gold.

The Linux Gambit
Jonni Bidwell once again sets a graphics card on fire, this time calculating winning positions as he prepares to take on open source chess engines…

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

As Alan Dexter discovers, this chip may be the runt of the Zen 3 family, but it delivers where it counts most: gaming.

3 mins

Slackel 7.4

Before he couldn’t work with Arch, he couldn’t work with Slackware, which is why Mayank Sharma jumps at everything that mentions the venerable distro.

3 mins

RebornOS 2020.12.28

The constant deluge of Arch-based distros can put anyone to sleep, but this one makes Mayank Sharma wake up from his slumber.

3 mins

Rescuezilla 2.1

With perennial fat fingers, Mayank Sharma has been messing with hard disks long enough to know that good rescue tools are worth their weight in gold.

3 mins

Garuda Linux 210101

Mayank Sharma has enjoyed one Arch-based distribution this month, but will lightning strike twice or has he been taken in by the distro’s tall claims?

3 mins

Wasteland 3

Management simply hates weirdos and snow, so this is a bad time of year for them and they’re taking it out on Jody Macgregor.

5 mins

BETTER VIRTUAL MACHINES

Forget about the draconian confines of reality and immerse yourself (well, your computing) in a virtual world. Jonni Bidwell’s here with a machines-inside-machines extravaganza.

10+ mins

THE LINUX GAMBIT

Jonni Bidwell once again sets a graphics card on fire, this time calculating chess positions…

10+ mins

Raspberry Pi Pico

In a break from the norm Les Pounder tests the latest Pi: a $4 microcontroller featuring the first ‘Pi Silicon’ created by Raspberry Pi.

6 mins

A terminal multiple window manager

You can’t use the mouse or run multiple windows in a text environment… unless you’re Shashank Sharma and know just the right tool for the job.

7 mins

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