Ubuntu 21.04
He’s not a fan of release names, so Mayank Sharma is even more perplexed than normal as hippos aren’t known to be hairy.

Prestel
Before super-fast broadband, before Web 2.0, before Web 1.0 there was Prestel. Mike Bedford reveals the online data service that pre-dated the WWW by more than a decade.

Scratch the evil bats!
Les Pounder has landed on a new planet and the evil mutant space bats are trying to steal his space snacks. Defend his snacks!

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Linux Mint 21.1 Vera
Nate Drake meets Linux Mint’s latest offering, code-named Vera, and comes away bowled over by its stunning looks and ease of use.

Packaging formats
There’s a number of ways of getting software on to your Linux-powered computer, and Michael Reed is comparing them to find out which is best.

Kali Linux 2022.04
If you exist in the grey twilight between good and evil, and want to look cool while doing it, David Rutland has just the deitybased distro for you.

Contributing for non-coders
Aaron Peters, who is a coding tinkerer at best, describes some ways that nontechnical folks can contribute to open source projects.

Voyager Live 22.10
Nate Drake talks peanut butter and jelly as he explores the glorious union of Gnome and Xfce in a single OS. You’ll never look at your desktop the same way again.

Open source RAW photography
Linux offers all the pro-level tools you could possibly need for better photos. Karsten Günther is your top-tips guide though the jungle of RAW tools.

The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow
The Management loves digging up dirt, especially on Ian Evenden in this pixel-art pseudo horror set in the more horrifying North of England, eee by gum!

Pimoroni Tufty 2040
Create a full-colour badge or even display live sensor data, using an RP2040 chip sandwiched deliciously to a tiny display. Les Pounder mulls the possibilities..

Openmamba 3.6.21
Before running this indie distro David Rutland was hoping for something of a snake theme with Openmamba. Instead, he got Red Hat with a KDE Plasma desktop.

Lightweight distros
Michael Reed takes a look at five distributions that make the most of limited hardware while still offering an impressive desktop experience..

KDE Neon 2022.08
David Rutland finds that KDE is a delight to behold and regardless of whether it’s a ‘real’ distro, it’s a charming and relaxing place to do his Linuxing.

Creative writing tools
Struggling to compose a story? Nick Peers reviews five tools that all provide more than a simple writing environment to help bring your novels to life..

Condres OS 1.0 
Mayank Sharma isn’t usually so easily fooled, but the fear of missing deadlines made him drink old, odourless wine from a new bottle.

Create a custom LCD menu 
Les Pounder “cranks that dial” to relive his youth of soldering irons and 1980s electronics, when a ‘bit’ was a relatively unknown concept.

MakuluLinux Shift
Michael Reed is wowed by the visual bling of MakuluLinux, a distro that claims to be ‘game ready’ thanks to its many preinstalled components.

Adding distance sensors
Les Pounder merges two low-cost, yet complex ultrasonic sensors to create one must-have Pi-powered gadget that anyone can use.

Open Media Vault 6
Old wine in a new bottle is such a cliché, but that’s exactly how Mayank Sharma likes his software to grow and evolve, especially when it can save your bacon.

Waveshare CM4-Nano-B
Les Pounder looks at Waveshare’s Compute Module 4 carrier board that offers Raspberry Pi 4 performance in a near Zero-sized package

Hackers Toolkit 2022 - Jonni Bidwell unpacks Parrot Security OS and reveals how to use its formidable arsenal of hacking tools.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D - Dave James contemplates what it means for a processor that’s supposed to help games run faster but on Linux has its strengths with machine learning…

Linux Mint Debian Edition 5
Whenever there’s a new LMDE release, Mayank Sharma can’t help but think of the old adage: “It’s the thought that counts.”

A Musical Story
Fun, folk and funk are three things that Management hate with a passion, so Tom Sykes has turned down his speakers.

Arducam 16MP camera module
Quick-off-the-draw Les Pounder can’t shoot shots faster than this camera, which is now available to everyone.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 
In what seems to have become a trend, just when he gives up hope, a project surprises Mayank Sharma with a new release.

Daily Pi 400 desktop use
How capable is the Pi when it comes to carrying out day-to-day computing tasks? Michael Reed powers down his x86 desktop to find out…

UBOS Linux 2022-02-04
Mechanisms for simplifying the installation of popular web tools are like snake oil. Or so thought Mayank Sharma, until he came across UBOS…

Ubuntu alternatives
The ever-curious Michael Reed investigates Ubuntu progenies and finds that they each have their own take on a how a desktop should work…

Neptune 7.0
Debian-based KDE distros are a dime a dozen, so Mayank Sharma is keen to see how it stacks up against the competition.

Integrate DropBox into your code
Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to use the Dropbox REST API with Python to create your own custom programs.

Endless OS 4.0
Five minutes with this distro and Mayank Sharma is reminded of the old adage “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” with this education-aimed distro.

Calculate Linux 22 KDE Edition
Jonni Bidwell was dubious about making Gentoo easy, but after careful Calculation he’s all for the idea.

Edge for Linux
Will Edge find space in the Linux browser market, just because Mayank Sharma thinks Microsoft has done a good job?

Ubuntu Touch OTA-20
Jonni Bidwell once again delights at being able to use hardware that people (not me!– Ed) told him to throw away ages ago.

Whonix 16
Mayank Sharma is a busy man, but when it comes to privacy and security, like Louis Armstrong, he has all the time in the world.

Ubuntu 21.10 vs Fedora 35
Mayank Sharma wonders if there’s more that separates the two leading Gnomebased distros than their different packaging formats (and logo colours! – Ed).

GPIO electronic interfacing 50
Mike Bedford shows you how to get more from your Raspberry Pi or other SBC by getting to grips with interfacing circuitry.

Asus Tinker Board 2S
This is the little board that couldn’t, says Les Pounder as he tries a board that’s definitely no Raspberry Pi.

Node-RED 2.0
Les Pounder enjoys building things, and with Node-RED 2.0 he can build the Internet of Things right from his beloved Raspberry Pi.

Get atomic-clock accurate time
Sean Conway makes use of a Raspberry Pi Hat to pass some time, by setting up a GPS receiver to establish an accurate clock..

EndeavourOS
Arch Linux is beginning to rival Ubuntu as the starting point for modern distros. Neil Bothwick looks at one such distro.

It’s a virtual server world
From a caravan in Wales, David Rutland takes you on a touring holiday through the world of virtual private servers so you can run your own (a server, not a caravan).

Debian 11 GNU/Linux 11
Mayank Sharma can only marvel at one of the oldest distros, which continues to be as riveting as it was almost three decades ago.

Raspberry Pi news
With Dave Jones from the Canonical Foundations team. The Raspberry Pi Foundation and University of Cambridge join forces in the name of research! Pi Storm helps old Amiga’s live beyond the CPU grave and USB booting arrives.

MakuluLinux LinDoz
Always on the hunt for distros that can help him reel in users to Linux, Mayank Sharma finds one that matches his sensibilities.

Arduino IDE 2.0 Beta 7
Les Pounder looks for something a little fresher among his maker buffet.

Bodhi Linux 6.0
Mayank Sharma isn’t embarrassed to admit that Enlightenment-based distros make him go weak at the knees. 

Get to grips with breadboards
Mike Bedford provides a hands-on guide to using breadboards for maker projects.

The RabbitMQ message broker
The three things Mihalis Tsoukalos loves most in the world are messaging, explaining things and rabbits, so he’s in heaven with this tutorial on inter-task communications..

AlmaLinux OS 8.3
Mayank Sharma is stunned that someone would spend a million dollars to create a community-supported clone of a distro. 

Coding a Gun ‘n’ Run shooter
Calvin Robinson uses a custom toolbox for editing a custom-built gaming environment utilising Python and PyGame.

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.

Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB
A superfast second-generation PCIe 4.0 drive at a decent price? Sign me up says Alan Dexter as he takes this well-priced NMVe SSD for a quick spin.

Dynamic diagrams with Mermaid
Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to use Mermaid to create beautiful technical graphs and diagrams you can reuse and update anywhere.

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…

Transform your photos with photostacking tricks.

Update to NextCloud 20 on your Raspberry Pi.

Activate the Linux-powered Robotic Operating System!.

Trisquel 9.0 Etiona
Jonni Bidwell is, for this page only, on a brave quest to banish binary blobs from his legendary Eee PC.

Top-down Python race games
Calvin Robinson creates a racing game in Python with PyGame – there’s nothing like a mad dash to the finish line to get the heart pounding!

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