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.

Fedora 30/Ubuntu 19.04

Mayank Sharma wonders just what separates the two leading Gnome-based distros – besides their packaging formats…

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.

MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G

Nvidia’s new GPU brings merely a modest boost in performance, thinks Jarred Walton.

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.

Quantum Computing

Mats Tage Axelsson introduces you to quantum computing, the coolest tech around. Learn how it works and how you can get started.

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…

ProgressIve SessIons

Jonni Bidwell talks progressive web apps with Enonic’s co-founder Thomas Sigdestad.

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.

Google Pixelbook

Hand on heart, this is the best Chromebook to date that Joe Osborne has ever used – or indeed paid for.

Ledger HW.1

An affordable and highly portable ‘hardware wallet’ for your bitcoins, a better bet than your puny UK pounds 

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.

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.

Crucial MX300 2TB

The only writer we know who’s owned multiple Porsches, Jeremy Laird  sullies his hands with the cheapest 2TB SSD in town.

4MLinux 21.0

Ambitiously minimalist distros can be quite a tempting bait, but will Shashank Sharma bite on this occasion?

Civilization VI

Gather around children as holographic great, great granddaddy TJ Hafer describes how all this here rocketport used to be fields.

Floating The Jolla Dream

Navigate the choppy waters of Jolla’s titanic Sailfish OS voyage with the help of Sean Cameron.

Building Better Devices

Les Pounder explores the new Raspberry Pi Zero W as a platform for the Internet of Things.

OnePlus 5T

Dual-lens camera and top dog for performance has James Peckham ditching his other smart phones

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.

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.

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.

Raspberry Pi Robots!

Supervillain Jonni Bidwell is constructing an army of Pi robots. Sneak into his lair and steal his techniques!

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.

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.

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.

Iconoclasts

Being repressed by zealots is just another normal day in the office for Andy Kelly at the fanatical Linux Format Towers.

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!

Preston Hackspace

Get your hands on maker tools a-plenty!

Storage Wars

Allen Samuels is a veteran of the storage industry, having worked for Citrix and Weitek before moving to Sandisk in 2013.