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MEET THE TEAM

We’re looking at the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment this issue, but what’s your favourite desktop of all time?

Desktop upgrades

Everyone thinks they know best when it comes

Ubuntu 24.04 scores 20% faster than Windows 11

Over 100 benchmarks on the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Framework 16 have shown that Ubuntu 24.04 seriously outperforms Windows 11.

Open source Z80 alternative

Zilog has announced the EOL of the legendary Z80, but it may live again.

Microsoft open sources MS-DOS

Criticism has been drawn for the “mutilated” release.

YOU NEED HELP!

Italo Vignoli is one of the founders of

Systemd wants to add sudo replacement

The upcoming v256 release of Systemd is expected to include a sudo replacement called run0.

German state moves to LibreOffice

Schleswig-Holstein switches from Microsoft Office.

Compromised Dockers

Docker Hub hosted millions of imageless containers.

Distro watch

What’s behind the free software sofa?

KEEPING IT REAL

Frederic Plourde is XR lead at Collabora. April

POWER DOWN

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?

Mailserver

WRITE TO US Do you have a burning

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HotPicks

DigiKam Haruna Switcheroo Wallpaper Downloader Joplin Remmina NIS One-Click-Backup Armagetron Advanced Taisei Project Varia Midori

SAVE YOUR OLD PCs!

Bring out your dead PCs! We’ll use 32-bit distros and restoration tricks to revive your old hardware.

SanDisk Pro-Blade

Flashing back to Zip drives, Ganesh TS is perplexed.

Archcraft 2024.04.06

Daring Nate Drake takes a trip in the Archcraft and finds it flies at the speed of light.

Fedora 40

Nate Drake doffs his hat to the very latest version of Fedora as he gives the Workstation edition a twirl.

Austrumi 4.9.3

Nate Drake discovers how a distro can be both fast and clunky at the same time when booting Austrumi.

Calculate Linux

Nate Drake crunches the numbers with Calculate Linux and finds it earns top marks for its excellent performance and features.

Pepper Grinder

Abbie Stone finds management is thrilled to have drill-equipped staff!

Editors for authors

Whether you’re working on a fiction or non-fiction book, Michael Reed believes it’s vital to have an editor that works the way you want.

Ultimate desktop upgrade

Transform your desktop with hot KDE Plasma and a little Jonni Bidwell.

Pi Foundation co-founder Jack Lang dies aged 76

Lang was a “central part of the Cambridge tech entrepreneurship scene” and helped establish the Pi.

Booting Ubuntu

…or not. Not so noble after all, it

Moah memory!

Compute that baby.

MAKE Pi NOT WAR

Les Pounder works with groups such as the

Dosbian 2.5

Les Pounder lives in the past – he loves old computers and can remember a time when Snickers were Marathons.

Creality K1C

Constantly demanding perfection, Denise Bertacchi is finally pleased with Creality. Well, almost.

Build your own weather machine

Les Pounder is normally a ray of sunshine, but is feeling a little under the weather. Perhaps this project will lift the clouds.

Inside Linux

As we delve into what makes Linux tick, your guide Matt Holder explains how abstraction keeps you safely away from hardware voltages

Learn the periodic table

PERIODIC-TABLE-CLI

Getting comfortable with terminal control

LINUX BASICS

Playing a full (Steam) Deck of the classics

BATOCERA

UK’s first expandable home computer

The Microtan 65 was basic but expandable way beyond other ’80s home computers. Mike Bedford explains how to experience it via emulation.

Make secure video calls with Linux

Well-known chatterbox Nate Drake walks newcomers to Linux through the many excellent videoconferencing options on your Linux system.

Feel the pressure with drawing tablets

After ignoring a key feature of Krita, under pressure Neil Mohr brushes away all criticism and paints over his mistakes.

Protect your data with strong encryption

When Stuart Burns was told to lurk around the data centre, he brought a packed lunch and his laptop running Ubuntu 24.04.

LUKS BEFORE YOU LEAP!

Recently, one of my mechanical hard disks started

StartMail

A man who trusts no one, Krishi Chowdhary demands ad-blocking and third-party trackers from his secure email. Looks like he’s found them.

SiteGround

Always demanding more and more features, James Capell suddenly wonders whether he’s willing to shell out for them!

Our green and pleasant phones

The environment is being destroyed by an addiction to devices. Neil Mohr investigates one company trying to turn the tide.

Fairphone 5

Bram Lodewijks casts a meticulous and moral eye over the latest ethical phone.

Create turn-based internet games

David Bolton takes inspiration from his past and explains what postal games are, and what’s needed to create and run one in the modern age.

Code a classic Star Wars scroller

There’s nothing more classic than Star Wars, so Ferenc Deák brushes off his ancient dusty demo code for a scroller celebration.