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MICROSOFT INVASION!

When an immovable penguin meets an unstoppable corporation, always bet on the penguin…

GeForce RTX 4070 Super

Jarred Walton considers what’s so super about mid-cycle updates.

Linux Mint 21.3

Nate Drake keeps things Minty fresh with this incredibly intuitive and powerful Linux distro. Be sure to add some spices.

AV Linux MXE-23.1

Nate Drake puts his ear to the ground to hear the latest version of AV Linux, Enlightenment, rumbling into town.

Solus 4.5 Resilience

Nate Drake’s Irish eyes are smiling at this latest offering from Solus, with improvements to the desktop and under the hood.

SDesk 2024.01.26

Nate Drake discovers the new kid on the block, SDesk, including shiny toys such as Wayland and a brand new browser.

Retrogaming distros

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

The verdict

Retrogaming distros

Hacker’s toolkit

After an extended break, alleged hacker Jonni Bidwell emerges from the shadows to teach you the noble art and keep you out of trouble.

Raspberry Pi supports T Level students

“What’s a T Level?” we hear you ask. Don’t worry, we didn’t know either…

MX Linux 23.1 Pi

Les Pounder spends all day tinkering with Raspberry Pis and the latest MX Linux has got him in a spin.

NVMe Base Pi 5

Everyone, says Les Pounder, is based, especially regarding Pimoroni!

Scare your enemies with a Pi prank box

Yes, Les Pounder is very scary, but buying OEP3W amplifiers from AliExpress is worse. He wonders what pranks he can pull with them…

Enhance your Pi-vacy

A man who likes to keep himself to himself, Christian Cawley explains how to keep online activity private when using a Raspberry Pi.

THE PAW-FECT DISTRO

Nick Peers can hardly ‘container’ himself after taking the Puppy Linux developer’s new distro for a good run off the lead.

Parallel compression

Parallel processing, the computing equivalent of juggling, as Shashank Sharma calls it, can be used to perform everyday tasks to save time.

Get more from your virtual machines

VIRTUALBOX

What’s in a filesystem?

EXT4 Credit: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org

Moving rooms and sharing your game

ADVENTURE GAME STUDIO Credit: www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk

Fix LEDs with some coded CAD models

OPENSCAD Credit: http://openscad.org

Take the Rust-based kernel for a test run

MAESTRO Credit: https://github.com/llenotre

Disk management

Stuart Burns isn’t boring, he’s essential – just like looking after your disks

The Pi 5 as a mini server

A sysadmin’s perspective on setting up and running a new Raspberry Pi 5 for Docker and beyond.

Yodeck

Jonas P DeMuro dusts off his Raspberry Pi so he can take a quick overview of this digital signage service.

Hostinger

James Capell is just the guy to try out a web host that’s easy enough for your granny to use.

Framework

Three years on, the DIY laptop concept has come of age. 

Framework Laptop 16

Slapping parts together, Dave James takes this modular laptop with upgradable GPU for a spin. 

Revealing the shell behind the shell

In the last iteration of the shell, Ferenc Deák managed to reveal the password for his home computer…

Develop games for the CBM-64

David Bolton demonstrates how to develop games in 6502 for the Commodore 64 and run them on the Vice emulator in the 21st century!