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MEET THE TEAM

We’re trying to keep things light this issue, so what’s your top tip for making something run faster or use less memory?

Keep it light

It’s fascinating to read the constant online forum

Newsdesk

THIS ISSUE: Art apps get touch-ups HDR Hackfest hopes KeePassXC passes test Ghostly chicken haunts AMD CPUs

It’s a wrap on HDR Hackfest

Exciting plans are in motion after the 2023 HDR Hackfest in Prague. Simon Ser shares his hopes.

KeePassXC passes audit

Independent security consultant was impressed.

NOT END OF LIFE

Joe Brockmeier is head of community, Percona.

KERNEL KUDOS

Muhammad Usama Anjum is a software developer at Collabora.

AMD haunted by spectral chicken

Kernel code is hen-pecked.

X.Org cleanup

Certain X.Org packages are retired and now archive-only.

Linus commits

Torvalds explains his changes to the Linux kernel.

Distro watch

What’s behind the free software sofa?

IN EURO WE TRUST

Italo Vignoli is one of founders of LibreOffice and The Document Foundation.

BUG OUT

Jon Masters is a kernel hacker who’s been

Kernel Watch

Jon Masters keeps up with all the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.

Answers

Got a burning question about open source or the kernel? Whatever your level, email it to answers@linuxformat.com your Intel branch prediction.

Mailserver

WRITE TO US Do you have a burning

HotPicks

THE BEST NEW OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ON THE PLANET

Adata Legend 960 Max

Heatsinks make everything better, even Shane Downing.

Nvidia RTX 4070

Put that foreign holiday on hold, shouts Dave James, it’s time to invest in a shiny new graphics card instead!

Tiny Core Linux 14.0

Hold on tight as Nate Drake dares to embark on a white-knuckle ride on the stripped-down Tiny Core Linux!

Lubuntu 23.04

Nate Drake samples the lighter flavour of Ubuntu and has brought enough to share.

MidnightBSD 3.0.0

Nate Drake almost gets lost in the labyrinth that is MidnightBSD – a surprising open source alternative to Linux.

ROUNDUP

Kotlin Go Rust Python C++

The Verdict

Beginner coding languages

LIGHTSPEED UBUNTU

Fitness guru Jonni Bidwell is here to trim down your Ubuntu installations for summer. Not a single star jump required.

It’s artificial not human intelligence

The Pi Foundation outlines its approach to teaching AI to young learners.

Micropython 1.20

Supports the Pico!

YOUR JAMMY EVENT HERE!

Les Pounder works with groups such as the

Ubuntu 23.04 Beta

Les Pounder loves the B-52s’ ‘Rock Lobster’ but will he find Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster also rocks or is just a bit rocky?

Creality CR-M4

“Look at the size of that thing!” cries Denise Bertacchi, but this 3D printer from Creality is certainly no moon.

Setting up virtual Python environments

Les Pounder enjoys dancing to Jamiroquai’s ‘Virtual Insanity’, but much prefers losing himself in Python’s virtual environments.

Eye spy with my little Pi API…

Tam Hanna uses the new Raspberry Pi Camera API and Microsoft Azure to create a machine that can classify things.

Join the Pod, Man!

Aaron Peters, unabashed container newbie, explores the Podman management application and why you might pick it over Docker.

Stay on top of your to-do list

If creating to-do lists were an Olympic event, Shashank Sharma would be a winner, seeing as how his just keep on growing.

Search desktop file contents instantly

Super-sleuth Nick Peers reveals how to find any file by searching its contents as well as filenames with the help of Recoll.

Climbing the ALPs

Piling survival essentials such as containers, Btrfs and KVM into his backpack, Matt Holder sets out to conquer OpenSUSE’s latest technological answer to immutable OSes.

LISP - exploring the original AI language

Discover one of the first programming languages, which Mike Bedford realises couldn’t have been more different from its early stablemates.

Creating better documents in AsciiDoc

Making well-formatted documents is a snap for Karsten Günther because he’s learnt how to use a metaformat – and now you can, too.

Master Linux VM creation in Azure

Swallowing his pride, Stuart Burns tests out what Microsoft has to offer for Linux servers in its Azure cloud.

Kicking your music ’80s Amiga-style

Musical Michael Reed shows you how to create an Amigastyle tracker tune using modern open source Linux software.

Generate and then solve mazes with C

David Bolton demonstrates how a Raspberry Pi can create mazes in C/SDL and then solve them with animations.

Spice up your Python console applications

Matt Holder demonstrates how to use the Python Rich library to add formatting to your console applications.