Linux Format 249 (Sampler)

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Raspberry Pi User Raspberry Pi news

Kali Linux 2019.01 64- & 32-bit Page 96

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Quantum computing on the Pi, power issues and running x86 programs.

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ 51 Les Pounder wonders what makers can do with this much power?

Using EasyGUI

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CREDIT: IBM

Les Pounder shows us how to use Python to search Google to gain inspiration for our next maker project.

Stop-motion studio

tutorials Terminal: FFF

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Christian Cawley plays with some Lego and a Pi camera to make a movie – although it’s not quite that simple…

Debug serial comms

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Not all file managers look the same, as Shashank Sharma discovered while using FFF – a Bash-based file manager.

shotwell: Build a photo library

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Sean Conway walks you through the process of troubleshooting communication problems between a PC and a serial device.

audacity: Audio editing

Coding Academy Check your Git repos

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apache: Secure and static sites

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DRAW: Vector illustrations

Regulars at a glance 6

Linux user groups

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Les Pounder explains exactly what goes on in Linux Presentation Days.

Mailserver

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Too much praise – we’ve gone red, scarily clever solutions, hacking RC cars, and we’re going to cover firewalls again.

Answers

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Minolta printer drivers, best scanning solutions, Mint won’t shutdown, using ZFS, and Peppermint upgrades.

www.techradar.com/pro/linux

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Create technical and business diagrams and illustrations without paint packages, as Mike Bedford demonstrates.

steam: Game streaming

Google offers the bad news that CPU Spectre bugs will never be fixed in software, FireFox Send service, Pure OS movements and no more web Skype for Chrome OS.

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Stuart Burns shows how to create a secure web server on which you can host statically generated WordPress sites on a secure Apache server.

Mihalis Tsoukalos looks at the next-gen web language WebAssembly, how to develop apps for it in Rust and Go, and how to use them with the help of JavaScript.

News

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John Knight returns to his old recording friend Audacity once again, and finds things have become a little more advanced.

John Schwartzman shows you how to write a Bash shell script that can keep track of all of your Git repositories.

Webassembly and Rust

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Nick Peers reveals how to bring order to your chaotic photo and video library with Ubuntu’s default photo organiser.

Subscriptions

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Back issues

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Overseas subs

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HotPicks

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Alexander Tolstoy would never even imagine posting anything negative online about any glorious government – he’s far too busy critiquing and testing only the best in free and open source software like: Digikam, Olive, Cygwin, LibreOffice, ODrive, Quaternion, Klogg, Hyperfine, Friture, Underrun, Sandspiel.

Your free DVD

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Next month

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Push your Linux gaming to your big TV for real gaming fun, with the help of Alex Cox and Steam In-Home Streaming.

In-depth Turn Arch into Ubuntu

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Jonni Bidwell has spent years perfecting his Arch install, and he’s begrudgingly going to share some insights that make it as easy as Ubuntu to use…

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