In this issue

SystemRescue 8.0
If you’re as adventurous with your installations as Mayank Sharma, then you’ll want to keep a copy of this distro handy…

Monitor cycles in directory trees
Mihalis Tsoukalos sips on a cold bottle of Mythos in the Greek sun while working with dictionaries, os.walk(), files, symbolic links and directories.

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.

2 mins

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.

3 mins

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.

3 mins

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…

3 mins

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.

3 mins

Spiritfarer

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

6 mins

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.

10+ mins

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.

3 mins

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.

10+ mins

Terminal multiplexer

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

5 mins

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