Contents If only we could make our GPUs walk the dog for us too…
Reviews Prison Architect.................18 Build your own Alcatraz, then give feedback to the developers. Linux gaming is great
Upgrade your desktop
Norman Stanley Fletcher, you an habitual criminal who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard…
Mirabox............................... 20 ARM power consumption with the connectivity of a proper PC. Ben likes it
Baby processor, grown-up Ethernet connections for all your internets
Get the features, the looks and the freedom with the ultimate desktop environment p34 Roundup: Anonymising distros p26
NOOBs.................................21 Make the Raspberry Pi even easier to get started with, with this distro loader
Snowlinux 4....................... 22 Try the latest desktop distribution to reach out to catch Ubuntu’s slipping crown
Books.................................. 24 If you like to tinker with the old soldering iron, there’s a good chance that one of these books will be of some interest to you
We are the Village Green Tinkering With Shed-Based Electronics Society.
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Talking heads We focus on things that the good guys can use. It’s levelling the playing field to give them a fighting chance. Simon Bennetts on how the web is still being won p42 www.linuxformat.com