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Will the last person to leave please turn out the lights?

Newsdesk

THIS ISSUE: Tactless Torvalds Steam support to stop? Nvidia opens up Fork uplift Linux love gets larger

Distro watch

What’s behind the free software sofa?

Kernel Watch

Jon Masters summarises the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so that you don’t have to.

Answers

This is the 25th Anniversary edition of Linux Format and its Answers pages, so here’s a selection of some of the more common and interesting questions we have received

Linux: the essential learning library

Learning Linux skills has a problem: there are just so many tools and technologies to choose from. Stuart Burns is your guide to success.

HotPicks

THE BEST NEW OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ON THE PLANET

Corel Linux 1.0

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Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

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SUSE Linux 6.3

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Ubuntu 5.04

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Linux-Mandrake 7

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Red Hat 7.3

Richard Drummond asks whether the biggest is necessarily the best as he examines the latest release.

Windows user distros

Elementary OS Ubuntu Deepin Linux Linux Mint Zorin OS Lubuntu Pop!_OS MX Linux

The verdict

Distros for Windows users

Escape Windows 10

Save all your old PCs! Nick Peers reveals how to give them a new lease of life with Linux Mint.

Blast off with coding, making and AI!

From space-based competitions to running AI at home, the Pi Foundation has you covered.

Code Club

We’re in it together.

AI smarts

Enter a world of LLMs.

THE END IS PI

Les Pounder works with groups such as the

Ubuntu 25.04 Beta

For his final Linux Format review, Les Pounder goes back to where it all started for him: Ubuntu and the Raspberry Pi.

QiDi Plus4

Picking up where the Bambu left off, Denise Bertacchi finds a practical if unexciting machine.

Orange Pi RV2

Never one to miss sticking it to the Pi Man, Tam Hanna tests the best little RISC-V board he’s seen.

Network AI clusters to model and move on

Few things can rival the computing demand of AI models. Tam Hanna helps you spread the load with a cluster of affordable systems.

The art gallery at the end of LXF

RASPBERRY PI

Cool terminals

COOL RETRO TERM Credit: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Edit photos like a professional in GIMP 3

Shutterbug Nick Peers reveals how to use GIMP’s new and improved tools to take your photos to the next level.

Retro fix: Dial in to the bulletin board scene

ELECTERM

The hardware that made Linux great

LINUX HARDWARE

Build the ultimate home server setup

DEBIAN

Your first month with a 3D printer

3D PRINTING

STEAL YOURSELF

Nate Drake inducts you into the world of

CVE threat

Funding almost pulled.

Curing rootkit

Invisible to security.

Trezor Safe 3

Nate Drake is a regular Scrooge McDuck as he stows his precious crypto coins in Trezor’s mid-range cryptocurrency hardware wallet.

Burgling Bitcoins

ELECTRUM

Coding for a retro pixel fantasy console

Nate Drake is in Pixel Town, as he shows you how to code a retro classic-style 8-bit game on the PICO-8 fantasy console.

Runing Rust on the Raspberry Pi

David Bolton continues looking at Rust development with SDL2 but now he’s doing it on a Raspberry Pi of all places!