MEET THE TEAM

We’re all about building a better server this issue, what tip would you give to our readers if they were setting up a home server?

You’ve been served

I suspect that many readers, whenever Linux is

Wi-Fi networks vulnerable to new FragAttacks

SECURITY

Freenode’s ownership drama sees users switch to Libera Chat

Numerous open source projects ditch the Freenode chat network after claims of a hostile takeover

Audacity shelves telemetry plans

Outcry from users prompts rethink from Muse Group

UNDER A CLOUD

Matt Yonkovit is Percona’s head of open source strategy and a member of SHA (Silly Hats Anonymous)

OUT OF TIME…

Keith Edmunds is MD of Tiger Computing Ltd, which provides support for businesses using Linux

Light ’em up!

OpenRGB is the one-stop solution for PC lighting

Year of the office!

Annual report reveals huge appreciation for LibreOffice

Distro watch

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

BRIDGING THE DIVIDE

Rohan Garg is a software engineer at Collabora

STRAIGHT TALKING

Jon Masters has been involved with Linux for more than 22 years

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

Mailserver

WRITE TO US Do you have a burning

LETTER OF THE MONTH

More maps Thank you for the article on

KDFM

THE BEST NEW OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ON THE PLANET

Oil

Version: 0.8.9 Web: www.oilshell.org E veryone knows Bash,

Mousemic

Version: GIT Web: https://github.com/ ortegaalfredo/mousemic S ome things

Diskgraph

Version: GIT Web: https://github.com/ stolk/diskgraph M onitoring hard

Mergerfs

Version: 2.32.4 Web: https://github . com/trapexit/mergerfs O rganising

Fedy

Version: 5.0.12 Web: https://github . com/rpmfusion-infra/fedy T his

Autokey

Version: 0.95.10 Web: https://github . com/autokey/autokey F or

Eggvance

Version: 1.0 Web: https://github.com/ jsmolka/eggvance L inux is

URL Snake

Version: GIT Web: https://github.com/ epidemian/snake W e’ve seen

Pacstall

Version: 1.2 Web: https://github.com/ Henryws/pacstall P acstall is

Xbrzscale

Version: GIT Web: https://github.com/ atheros/xbrzscale S cale up

Create asynchronous code with Python

ASYNCIO

On the disc

Discover the highlights from this month’s packed DVD!

Aorus Gen4 7000s

Gigabyte’s SSD is the fastest storage this side of Sean Webster’s oiled drawers

OSGeoLive 14.0

Being cooped up in his home office, Mayank Sharma’s quest to travel the world leads him to a distro that brings the world to him

Bodhi Linux 6.0

Mayank Sharma isn’t embarrassed to admit that there’s something about Enlightenment-based distros that makes him go weak in the knees

GeckoLinux Rolling

With openSUSE being the only real KDE distro that he’s ever found tolerable, Mayank Sharma wonders if a spin can add anything to that experience

NomadBSD 130R

While Mayank Sharma has tried a couple of BSD desktop spins, none of them has offered a compelling reason for him to keep them around… until now

Silicon Dreams

Management loves to treat the staff like robots. A defiant Luke Kemp can confirm that they’re certainly not human…

Roundup

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

Desktop virtualisation

Need to run a different distro without rebooting, or run Windows without your friends knowing? Neil Bothwick looks at some virtual options for you

Talking to your guests

Communicating across the divide

Happy snaps

Keeping your guests safe

Ease of setup

Installing the software and a guest OS

Documentation

You know you’ll only look for it when you’re stuck

Compatibility

Will it fit in with your computer system and beliefs?

Useful extras

Additional titbits to tempt you…

Host interactions

How the guest uses the hardware

The Verdict

Desktop virtualisation

FASTER, BETTER SERVERS!

As the dust settles following Red Hat’s winding down of CentOS, Jonni Bidwell looks for alternative server distributions

CentOS remembered

Delve into the illustrious history behind one of the most respected server-targeting Linux distributions

Behold CentOS Stream

Red Hat’s new vision is CentOS Stream and caused a family feud, but would a CentOS by any other name smell so sweet?

Rocky Linux

CentOS’s co-founder has made his own RHELdownstream, and the community is behind him

Building better servers

Want to shift to CentOS Stream? Done with RPM-distros entirely? We have options that will ensure your boxes are firmly ticked

THE X FILES

Jonni Bidwell wants to know why a middle-aged display server is still at the heart of the Linux desktop

WEB APP SECURITY

Former Dark lord of network operations Tim Armstrong teaches the mystical arts of systems, security and keeping your stuff secret and safe

》SALUTE TO THE MAKERS

Pete Lomas is the co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and co-creator of the Raspberry Pi

Huge demand pushes up RP2040 SoC sales

A silicon-starved world demands its integrated circuits and Raspberry Pi is trying to play catch-up

Pico robot board

A Cytron for sore eyes

All-access fun

Breakout RP2040 board

Ubuntu 21.04

IN BRIEF The latest Ubuntu release and the

Scratch sound and motion detection

SCRATCH

Getting to grips with breadboards

MAKER BASICS

Back up and clone your Raspberry Pi

BACKUPS

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Chromebook

FYDE

Recovering deleted files

Shashank Sharma knows from experience that recovering deleted files is far easier than growing hair over a bald patch

Use your mobile as a secondary display

DESKREEN

Import and convert images to 3D models

BLENDER

Emulating the classic Altair 8800

EMUL ATION

Mastering the smallest Linux desktop distro

POKY LINUX

RABBITMQ Exchange messages between tasks

Sending messages and rabbits are Mihalis Tsoukalos favourite things, so he’s in Python heaven explaining how to use both