Purism Librem 5

Generation Linux

We’re all quite old here at Linux Format. Effy’s looking

Open source to sweep across Europe

On 14 May the European Parliament moved to endorse a

Penguins in space!

On its second attempt (reboot? - Ed) the SpaceX-built Falcon

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We reported last issue that Fedora was officially being listed

Case closed!

We reported in LXF258 on the patent case brought against

BIFROST BOOST

With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now

TRYING TOO HARD

Every once in a while, you see a discussion that

Kernel Watch

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 5.7. The new

ONGOING DEVELOPMENT

Sean Kelly has begun to post enablement patches for CXL

Intel Frost Canyon NUC

Frost Canyon is the latest iteration of the Intel NUC

DXT2 1.2

The Windows 7 EOL was too good a hook to

Mabox Linux 20.02

Manjaro is one of the best renditions of Arch Linux

Lair of the Clockwork God

Genuinely funny games are still something of a rarity. So

LED Strip HAT Mini

LED Strip HAT Mini is a Swiss Army knife for

File managers

His co-workers have only seen him by video link and

NEXT-GEN DISTROS

Cast your mind back 15 years, to that pre-credit crunch

OPEN BRITANNIA

Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK (https://openuk.uk), a new non-profit

LEVEL UP!

Les Pounder works for Tom’s Hardware UK writing about the

Raspbian we love you, but this is goodbye…

Things are afoot in the world of Raspberry Pi operating

Official Ubuntu

There’s been a spin of Ubuntu that runs on the

Official 64-bit

But wait, there’s more OS news! Since the Pi 2

Create stop-motion animation with your Pi

Les Pounder is an Associate Editor at Tom’s Hardware and

Hack Stadia stream gaming on to the Pi

Christian Cawley got a bit peckish for Pi and spent

Creating Pac-Man style games in Python

Calvin Robinson is a former assistant principal and computer science

Turn your data plots into visual information

Mihalis Tsoukalos is a DataOps engineer and a technical writer

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Inkscape

Neil Mohr is in the HotPicks seat which has been

Worker

You give Jonni six entire pages to write up the

Birdfont

While Comic Sans gets a bad rep in graphic design

PeaZip

PeaZip is currently one of the best-know crossplatform GUI frontends

Mermaid

We first took a look at Mermaid over three years

Zeal

Taking inspiration from OS X’s Dash, this is a useful

Mixxx

Certain members of the open source community believe it lacks

Stella

One of the most comprehensive emulators known to man is

BZFlag

Here at self-isolating LXF Towers, virtually blowing stuff up has

TheSSS

Spun off from the main 4MLinux project, TheSSS isn’t some

Eqonomize

We first looked at Eqonomize when it was originally launched

Manage your files

Jonni Bidwell uses vim and i3 on an Eee PC,

Design and publish your very own eBooks

Nick Peers dreams of republishing his best work in book

Model and simulate your circuit projects

Mats Tage Axelsson is keen to show you how using

Monitor systems and Docker deployments

Mihalis Tsoukalos is a DataOps engineer and a technical writer

BROWSER WARS 2020

We suspect most readers remember with bitterness and rolling of