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).

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..

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..

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!

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!

Open Media Vault 5.5.11
Mayank Sharma wonders what he can achieve with this specialised distro.

Raspberry Pi news
The Raspberry Pi Foundation releases 32 different Compute Module 4 models!

BUILD THE ULTIMATE MEDIA SERVER
Store and stream your videos, music and photos with a feature-rich, Linux-powered home server...

LinuxFX
Cold-hearted Jonni Bidwell shows a rare hint of sympathy for users who want their Linux to look like Windows, even if they really should know better.

Native Pi gaming
Christian Cawley is playing Doom and other classic games on his Raspberry Pi without emulation. He explains how you can try this gaming witchcraft.

Code a 2D shooter in Python
Putting the shooter into top-down shooter, Calvin Robinson brings us another game programming tutorial, Reservoir Bunnies..

EndeavourOS 7.15.2020
Just as HMS Endeavour explored the unknown southern lands, so Jonni Bidwell uses EndeavourOS to explore Arch.

Raspberry Pi news
The Raspberry Pi takes on Amazon’s allconquering Web Services, we marvel at a Pi radio project that makes the world turn, and the results of the Astro Pi competitions are announced. 

How to run Arch Linux on the Pi
Jonni Bidwell installs Arch Linux in less than three days and discovers the best way to browse the web is from the console..

Calculate Linux 
Jonni Bidwell has a slice of celebratory cake as he explores the latest version of the Gentoo distro that’s now 20 years old.

Waveshare Game HAT 
Bored to tears during lockdown, Neil Mohr dusts off one of his spare Raspberry Pis and gets to enjoy endless retro gaming fun thanks to this dinky HAT.

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.

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