In this issue

THE BEST OPEN SOURCE APPS - Unrestricted, fully featured and totally free – all the software you need to unleash your PC!

DUMP TWITTER - Get started with the Mastodon social craze.

Mailserver

Linux is the way forward, is it? The future of alternative computing and all that? My experience of Unix machines only covers the terminals at uni and I wasn’t impressed, although I think they probably had outdated kernels and were badly configured – I never even got around to installing LinuxAPUS on my trusty PPC-powered Amiga (you shouldn’t laugh).

4 mins

Corel Linux 1.0

Corel’s entry into the Linux market has potential, but there are issues.

2 mins

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

It may be a bit behind the times, but Debian is one of the best distributions on the market.

2 mins

SUSE Linux 6.3

We test this long-established German company’s latest distribution effort. Can it hold off the competition?

2 mins

Ubuntu 5.04

Andy Hudson hopes this is one hedgehog that won’t get squashed.

3 mins

Linux-Mandrake 7

Simplicity and a wide range of applications make this a great distribution for all Linux users.

2 mins

The Best OPEN SOURCE Software Ever!

In an attempt to trigger controversy, Michael Reed and Neil Mohr unequivocally state these are the greatest free software apps ever. Probably. We’re just trying to be helpful.

10+ mins

Waveshare Zero to Pi3

Transform your Pi Zero into a Pi 3, they promised Les Pounder, but it's more like adding on go-faster stripes.

2 mins

Master RPI.GPIO

Les Pounder goes back to the early days of the Raspberry Pi - and his career with this classic library! -

5 mins

Free our SOFTWARE!

Taking anything for granted is dangerous, so Jonni Bidwell and Mike Saunders revisit how the free software movement got started to help free us from proprietary tyranny!

4 mins

Jump to a federated social network

Nick Peers reveals how you can get up and running with this free, decentralised and non-profit alternative to Twitter.

9 mins

Universal layer text effects with GIMP

Posters use them, films and presentations are hard to imagine without them: text effects. Attract attention with Karsten Günther and GIMP.

8 mins

Set up your terminal and email like it's 1983

Jump in the hot terminal time machine with Mats Tage Axelsson who emails from the command line using the latest technology.

8 mins

Fantastic Mr Firefox

Nick Peers takes a trip down memory lane to reveal the story behind the rise - and slight fall - of Mozilla's popular web browser.

9 mins

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