FREE YOUR PHONE!

Lesser-spotted Jonni Bidwell climbs to the top of a 5G mast to extol the benefits of running Linux on your phone.

Packaging formats

There's a number of ways of getting software on to your Linux-powered computer, and Michael Reed is comparing them to find out which is best.

Return to Monkey Island

The Management thinks three decades is a perfectly fine amount of time for Will Freeman to wait to get an under-inflation pay rise.

Linux Mint 21.1 Vera

Nate Drake meets Linux Mint's latest offering, code-named Vera, and comes away bowled over by its stunning looks and ease of use.

Rocky 9.1

Nate Drake goes head-to-head with Red Hat-based distros this month, so is glad to have the heavyweight Rocky in his corner.

TAG EDITOR Ear Tag

Version: 0.2.1 Web: https://github. com/knuxify/eartag

AUDIO MANIPULATION Easy Effects

Version: 7.0.0 Web: https://github.com/ wwmm/easyeffects

KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM Logseq

Version: 0.8.11 Web: https://logseq.com

OSM EDITOR JOSM

Version: 22.10 Web: https://josm.openstreetmap.de

PowerShell

Version: 7.3.0 Web: https://github. com/PowerShell/PowerShell

Nifty note-taking with Obsidian

Nate Drake walks you through adopting the almighty Markdown-based note-taking app Obsidian to see whether it lives up to its legend.

Create better QR codes

Mike Bedford reveals how to get creative with your QR codes to draw attention to them better and help people sign up to newsletters and more.

Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro

Denise Bertacchi wishes everything in life could be relied upon to add more features while remaining excellent value.

Petoi Bittle Robot Dog

The rise of quadruped robots is upon us - their mission to boost STEM and Al learning with Anj Bryant.

Contributing for non-coders

Aaron Peters, who is a coding tinkerer at best, describes some ways that non-technical folks can contribute to open source projects.

OpenRGB gets a big update

Extensive new device support.

AMD opens up ray tracing

The Radeon Raytracing Analyzer finally goes full open source.

Rust testing the kernel LLVM is ready to check your distro.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

OpenSUSE to drop early 64-bit CPUs

Tumbleweed moves to x86-64-v2 – do you even know which version you have?

Victoria 3

“The peasants are revolting,” cries The Management, but really it’s just Jonathan Bolding serving up their afternoon tea and biscuits.

Nitrux 2.5.1

An impressive beginner distro that’s well worth your time, even if you spend most of it tweaking the settings, says Mayank Sharma.

Kali Linux 2022.4

If you exist in the grey twilight between good and evil, and want to look cool while doing it, David Rutland has just the distro for you.

WattOS R12

Nate Drake explores how WattOS can bring your ancient hardware to life with this zippy, if spartan Linux distro.

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

A beastly \"budget\" gaming CPU that Christian Guyton has found has one big temporary drawback.

Wix

Shashank Sharma takes the feature-rich site builder for a test drive.

ReactOS: the open source Windows

Entering an alternative universe, Michael Reed takes a look at an open source stand-in for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Design and build your dream Pi robot

In his latest series, Les Pounder explains how to plan, design and build your very own Raspberry Pi robot from the basics up.