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Civilization VI
Gather around children as holographic great, great granddaddy TJ Hafer describes how all this here rocketport used to be fields.
5 min |
June 2017
Linux Format
Floating The Jolla Dream
Navigate the choppy waters of Jolla’s titanic Sailfish OS voyage with the help of Sean Cameron.
5 min |
January 2017
Linux Format
Building Better Devices
Les Pounder explores the new Raspberry Pi Zero W as a platform for the Internet of Things.
2 min |
May 2017
Linux Format
OnePlus 5T
Dual-lens camera and top dog for performance has James Peckham ditching his other smart phones
3 min |
January 2018
Linux Format
Intel Optane 900P
Feeling the need for speed, Jarred Walton takes Intel’s latest storage technology for a Tokyo Drift around the server farms to see what it can do.
3 min |
January 2018
Linux Format
F1 2017
Sick of Linux Format Tower’s underpaid prima donnas and constant queuing, Phil Iwaniuk escapes to a world of overpaid prima donnas and queuing cars.
2 min |
January 2018
Linux Format
Liberate Windows Programs With Wine
Jonni Bidwell can’t afford to buy Central Otago Pinot Noirs, but Wine at least enables him to run programs from the other side.
9 min |
July 2018
Linux Format
Raspberry Pi Robots!
Supervillain Jonni Bidwell is constructing an army of Pi robots. Sneak into his lair and steal his techniques!
10+ min |
May 2018
Linux Format
AMD Ryzen 5 - 2400G
Finally, next-gen integrated graphics performance arrives inside a CPU worthy of your main desktop system. Jarred Walton is suitably impressed.
5 min |
May 2018
Linux Format
Dirt Rally
You don’t have to be a loud-mouthed, producer-punching, overly-tall Amazon  employee to enjoy driving cars, but it does help.
2 min |
April 2017
Linux Format
Beelink A1 TV Box
A good thing in a small package? “Witchcraft!” screams Desire Athrow, before calming down and having a nice cuppa once he knows it has Netflix.
2 min |
April 2018
Linux Format
Iconoclasts
Being repressed by zealots is just another normal day in the office for Andy Kelly at the fanatical Linux Format Towers.
3 min |
April 2018
Linux Format
Inkyphat
Les Pounder loves a good book and can be found reading on his e-ink enabled e-reader, but now he’s the able to create his own e-ink display!
3 min |
April 2018
Linux Format
Preston Hackspace
Get your hands on maker tools a-plenty!
1 min |
April 2018
Linux Format
Storage Wars
Allen Samuels is a veteran of the storage industry, having worked for Citrix and Weitek before moving to Sandisk in 2013.
10+ min |
March 2017
Linux Format
Community Relations
Jonni Bidwell meets Kara Sowles, Puppet Labs’ Community Manager, to learn about the perils of organising tech events.
10+ min |
Summer 2016
Linux Format
MAX30105 Multi Sensor
Nothing gets Les Pounder’s heart racing like a new toy. But how can we monitor his excitement? For that, we need the MAX30105!
3 min |
June 2019
Linux Format
Extix 19.3
The promise of a user-friendly distro lures Mayank Sharma into testing one based on beta software – and then suffering the consequences.
3 min |
June 2019
Linux Format
Solus 4.0
A user-friendly rolling release distro written from scratch sounds more like marketing hype than a usable product – or so Mayank Sharma thought.
3 min |
June 2019
Linux Format
Intel Core i5-8400
After months of endless AMD praise, Jarred Walton finally has some good news for Intel and the Blue processor team.
3 min |
December 2017
Linux Format
Knoppix 8.1
Years after its first release, the distribution is still as fresh and reliable as ever. Take a bow, Knoppix, you’ve impressed Shashank Sharma.
2 min |
December 2017
Linux Format
LibreOffice: Spreadsheets
Whether you’re puzzling out pivot tables or building bar charts, Bobby Moss is determined to make you a cell-wrangling ninja.
10+ min |
December 2017
Linux Format
MotoZero
Evil genius Les Pounder takes a look at an entry-level motor controller that offers four-wheel drive! No terrain is safe from his nascent robot army!
3 min |
December 2017
Linux Format
The Foss
In a deliberate act of provocation, Jonni Bidwell road-trips to Microsoft’s UK HQ to talk open source with the most hospitable Martin Woodward.
10+ min |
December 2017
Linux Format
Escape The Cloud
Join Mayank Sharma as he declares enough is enough, and stops seeding his data to popular cloud services where it’s ripe for harvesting.
10+ min |
August 2018
Linux Format
Transforming The Kernel
Jonni Bidwell meets kernel refactoring guru Julia Lawall and learns that Coccinelle is French for ladybug…
10+ min |
August 2018
Linux Format
Disk Station DS418 Play
While enjoying his extensive collection of 4K media, Lindsay Handmer wonders if there’s more to life than streaming moving pictures?
2 min |
December 2018
Linux Format
Surviving Mars
We often say management is trapped in its own sealed-off bubble. Little did we know Fraser Brown had them trapped on Mars…
2 min |
December 2018
Linux Format
Ubuntu 18.10
Leaning back in his chair while testing the latest iteration, Mayank Sharma wonders if it’s time Ubuntu should only put out LTS releases?
4 min |
December 2018
Linux Format
Elementary OS 5
As a major update of the trendy distribution parades down the Linux ramp, Mayank Sharma wonders if he can use it as his everyday desktop.
2 min |