Tricks And Techniques Used By Hackers And How To Guard Against Them.

Join our resident security expert Jonni Bidwell and learn the tricks and techniques used by hackers and how to guard against them.

Best Open Source Tools

Nick Peers reveals 10 fantastic tools and applications that should be on every Ubuntu user’s radar, for maximising their time in the distro.

Quark 20.04

There’s something about distros that mimic the Windows desktop which piques Mayank Sharma’s curiosity…

RASPAD 3 Raspberry Pi tablet

Raspberry Pi tablets are the holy grail of single-board computing. Christian Cawley builds his own using a RasPad 3 kit.

HotPicks

Nuclear Simplest Studio Crazydiskmark Flameshot Wol_qt Identity Sane-airscan Cycle Veloren Ventoy Koi

On the disc

Discover the highlights from this month’s packed DVD!

Raspberry Pi 400

Taking a leaf out of 80s computer design, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has put its latest Raspberry Pi inside a keyboard. Les Pounder checks it out.

Mailserver

Write to us at Linux Format, Future Publishing, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA or lxf.letters@futurenet.com.

Crusader Kings 3

Management might love The King, but they do have suspicious minds and feel caught in a trap hearing Fraser Brown’s plans to get them all shook up.

Develop RAW Photo-Editing Skills

In the first of a two-part series, Alexander Tolstoy shows how to edit RAW files as he explores open source alternatives to Adobe Lightroom.

Live stream from your Linux deskop

Nick Peers reveals how to create a multi-screen live streaming video with the help of OBS Studio.

HotPicks

Firefox Htop Outrun Pixelitor Memavaild Krop Diagrams Xmoto Fortify Oomox Flowblade

Collaborate on office docs with NextCloud

If you’re seeking a secure and effective way of document editing within your Nextcloud instance, Kseniya Fedoruk has the right solution for you.

Manjaro 20.1.1

The distribution that brought Arch to the masses continues to amass new features and win over Jonni Bidwell, who’s never easily pleased.

Mind Control Delete

Management loves a bit of mindless repetition, so Natalie Clayton dances slow-motion rings around them while playing the latest Superhot expansion.

Enos OS 0.4

Swapping out Xfce’s window manager for elementary OS’s proves most pleasing to hybrid fan Jonni Bidwell.

Nvidia GeForce NOW

Nvidia offers stream gaming to all. Neil Mohr activates Suspicious Mode…

ZULIP ECONOMY

Jonni Bidwell talks to Tim Abbott about how a printer notification protocol combined with a kernel patching  mechanism led to the Zulip chat program.

BUILD THE ULTIMATE MEDIA SERVER

Winter is coming and Jonni Bidwell wants   you to enjoy it the right way – with a blanket  and a Linux-powered home media server to warm your heart.

Quickly Put Together A Slick Bibliography

Putting together accurate, searchable bibliographies is rarely a simple job. Kseniya Fedoruk reveals how to do it with less effort, using ONLYOFFICE.

RaspController

Les Pounder needs an easy way to see what all of his Raspberry Pis are up to, but he’s too lazy to move from the sofa…

Seeed Odyssey X86J4105

Les Pounder tries an Intel-powered SBPC with the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO.

HISTORY OF THE PC

In a world of competing processors and operating systems, John Knight explores how the PC began, what powers it and how it’s still going.

LinuxFX 10.6

Cold-hearted Jonni Bidwell shows a rare hint of sympathy for users who want their Linux to look like Windows.

How to recreate the Doctor Who theme

Mike Bedford makes use an analogue synthesiser simulator to generate one of TV’s most iconic and recognisable themes.

BUILD A SMART HOME OFFICE

Wiseguy Jonni Bidwell has some tips on making our homes and home offices smarter, with the latest FOSS offerings.

FUNDING THE FREE

Jonni Bidwell delves into the thorny issues surrounding funding open-source projects and urges you to support your favourite free software.

Easy OS 2.4.1

Puppy Linux has a younger sibling, and like Jonni Bidwell it’s completely container-mad and works well on a boat.

Beyond a Steel Sky

Management loves a totalitarian regime and it loves some nostalgia harking back to when magazines and Ian Evenden used to make a profit…