What does Windows 11 mean for Linux?

Microsoft has unveiled a new operating system, but will it play nice?

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution technology now available

The source code is out for AMD’s upscaling technology – but when is it coming to Linux?

AlmaLinux OS 8.4 now available

Claims to be the only community-owned CentOS option

WINE, VULKAN & WAYLAND

Alexandros Frantzis is a senior software engineer at

OVER-DEPLOYED

Keith Edmunds is MD of Tiger Computing Ltd,

Intel makes a move on SiFive

$2 billion apparently offered for the semiconductor startup

New RISC-V CPU hails from China

Chinese Academy of Sciences reveals the Xiangshan CPU

Chromebook sales hit new heights

Rise of 276% year-on-year

Distro watch

What’s down the side of the free software sofa?

SERVES YOU RIGHT

Matt Yonkovit is Percona’s Head of Open Source

TIME FOR A CHANGE

Jon Masters has been involved with Linux for

KERNEL WATCH

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

Answers

Got a burning question about open source or the kernel? Whatever your level, email it to lxf.answers@futurenet.com

Library loafer

We’ll get our top men on it immediately.

LETTER OF THE MONTH

Run my school I’ve been implementing Ubuntu and

Inkscape

Inkscape > Maestrial >Cinnamon >Qmplay2 >GitQlient >Gifski >FreeTube

On the disc

Zorin OS Lite

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Nvidia’s latest Ti takes aim at AMD’s RX 6800, reveals Jacob Ridley.

Koozali SME Server 10

Mayank Sharma has a particular fondness for point-and-click server distributions that roll out in a jiffy and don’t eat into his leisure time

MakuluLinux LinDoz

Always on the hunt for distros that can help him reel in users to Linux, Mayank Sharma finds one that matches his sensibilities

Venom Linux 2.1

Trying to punch above his weight, Mayank Sharma finally finds a sourcebased distro that’ll satiate his need to run a source-based distro

Tribblix Milestone 25

Poking his nose where he’s not supposed to, Mayank Sharma finds himself inside a Solaris variant that he just can’t seem to shake off

WilderMyth

Management doesn’t much like epic storytelling of heroic deeds – even if it is around the watercooler – so Sin Vega is in a lot of trouble

Roundup

ROUNDUP WE COMPARE Office TONS suites OF STUFF SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO!

The Verdict Office suites

T his month’s Roundup has shown that all

RASPBERRY Pi STREAMING

Camera-shy Jonni Bidwell conquers his fears as he harnesses the power of OBS Studio to stream live to his, er, three followers

Streaming basics

The hardware and infrastructure you’ll need to get your stream live

Introducing OBS Studio

The gold standard for home streaming software is open source, powerful and really easy to learn. It’s a triple whammy threat!

Pi-assisted streaming

Use one of your many spare Raspberry Pis as a remote camera or go crazy and run everything from a Raspberry Pi 4

Further, faster, free-er streaming

Discover what else OBS can do, then cut the corporate cord and host your own stream with Owncast

BEHIND THE VPN VEIL

If you take your privacy seriously you need to take VPNs seriously. David Rutland goes off the record, on the QT and very hush-hush

RESCUE & REPAIR

Fixit-bot Jonni Bidwell reveals how rescue distros can quickly diagnose and cure diverse Linux problems

Fancy a micro-ATX Pi Pico running Rust OS?

It’s what the world has been crying out for, right?

Arduino IDE 2.0 Beta 7

Les Pounder gently pushes away a slice of Pi and looks for something a little fresher among the serving plates of his maker buffet

Take better photos with your Raspberry Pi

Mike Bedford explains how to get the most from the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera and learn the basic principles of photography at the same time

Building robots inScratch with GPIO

Take your first motorised step with Les Pounder as he shows you how to use Scratch to build and control a simple robot

Design breadboards, circuits and PCBs

Designing a circuit to interface to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino? Then grab a copy of the open source Fritzing package. Mike Bedford is your guide

Stress-test your CPU

While Shashank Sharma isn’t fond of stress-testing the weighing scale, he’s fine with tools like S-TUI, which help him monitor CPU performance

Get a better image viewer and editor

Nick Peers goes hunting for a top-class image viewer – and is pleasantly surprised by what he finds

Get to grips with virtual networks

Harness the power of VirtualBox networks to create self-contained virtual networks within your own computer. Stuart Burns reveals all

How to easily connect OnlyOffice to your DMS

If you need to edit and co-author documents within your document management system, then Kseniya Fedoruk has the right solution for you

How to emulate an Acorn Electron

Les Pounder takes us back to a time when bedroom coders ruled the world and playground battles were fought for your micro

Build a cloud-based documentation site

Jamie Munro shows you how to set up GitHub, Docusaurus and Netlify to generate a professional-looking static documentation site

Build a static analysis development pipeline

Discover how to build securer web apps in Tim Armstrong’s new series, who starts with the essentials of Static Analysis and CI/CD

Manipulate data like a pro with Pandas

Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable as Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to use Pandas for storing and manipulating tabular data