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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
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
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
Quantum Computing
Mats Tage Axelsson introduces you to quantum computing, the coolest tech around. Learn how it works and how you can get started.
9 min |
June 2018
Linux Format
Ubuntu 18.04 Gear Up!
There’s a new Ubuntu LTS in town, with a whole new desktop to entice and amaze you. Jonni Bidwell rolls out the orange carpet…
10+ min |
June 2018
Linux Format
ProgressIve SessIons
Jonni Bidwell talks progressive web apps with Enonic’s co-founder Thomas Sigdestad.
10+ min |
June 2018
Linux Format
ExaGear Desktop
In his eternal quest for more Pi power, Les Pounder would give an ARM and maybe a leg to run x86 code on his Raspberry Pi.
2 min |
June 2018
Linux Format
Google Pixelbook
Hand on heart, this is the best Chromebook to date that Joe Osborne has ever used – or indeed paid for.
3 min |
February 2018
Linux Format
Ledger HW.1
An affordable and highly portable ‘hardware wallet’ for your bitcoins, a better bet than your puny UK pounds
2 min |
February 2017
Linux Format
Daydream View
We say Matt Swider is lost in his own world, he says it’s actually Android VR that has finally become a reality.
3 min |
February 2017
Linux Format
Deus Ex: MD
Being a game journalist Andy Kelly is used to people not liking him, he just wished he had super-human implants too, so he could punch them in the face.
3 min |
February 2017
Linux Format
Emmabuntüs De 2 1.04
Not a big fan of the kitchen-sink approach, Mayank Sharma runs into one distro that’s put in enough effort to perform surprisingly well.
3 min |
August 2019
Linux Format
Fedora 30/Ubuntu 19.04
Mayank Sharma wonders just what separates the two leading Gnome-based distros – besides their packaging formats…
4 min |
July 2019
Linux Format
Picture In A Mainframe
Jonni Bidwell wants to know if he could install Linux on the mainframe at Future Towers. The Open Mainframe Project’s John Mertic has all the answers.
10+ min |
August 2019
Linux Format
MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G
Nvidia’s new GPU brings merely a modest boost in performance, thinks Jarred Walton.
2 min |
August 2019
Linux Format
Robolinux 10.5
Mayank Sharma isn’t too gullible in real life, but has an uncanny tendency to fall for distros that then don’t deliver on the claims they make.
3 min |
August 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 |