Community Relations

Jonni Bidwell meets Kara Sowles, Puppet Labs’ Community Manager, to learn about the perils of organising tech events.

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!

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.

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.

Intel Core i5-8400

After months of endless AMD praise, Jarred Walton finally has some good news for Intel and the Blue processor team.

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.

LibreOffice: Spreadsheets

Whether you’re puzzling out pivot tables or building bar charts, Bobby Moss is determined to make you a cell-wrangling ninja.

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!

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.

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.

Transforming The Kernel

Jonni Bidwell meets kernel refactoring guru Julia Lawall and learns that Coccinelle is French for ladybug…

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?

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…

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?

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.

Graveyard Keeper

Management is regretting their love of roast potatoes, as Rachel Weber needs new candles and management is overflowing with excess flab…

Intel Bean Canyon NUC

Stuart Burns discovers that power and performance are well within your reach in the smallest of Intel’s build-your-own NUC systems.

Raspberry Pi 3 A+

Les Pounder sits down for another slice of “classic” Raspberry Pi, the last of the current generation. Does it still provide the nourishment that we crave?

Manjaro Linux 18.0

Mayank Sharma tests a user-friendly Arch-based distro, ignoring the jibes of being called a pseudo Arch user by one very vocal advocate.

Escape Windows

Fed up with Windows 10? Looking to switch to a more user-friendly variant of Linux that gives you the best of all worlds? Nick Peers has all the answers…

QNAP TS-453Be

A versatile high-end NAS for the home or small office says Lindsay Handmer. And who are we to disagree?