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Fresh from the farm.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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BYE, 2022!

Jon Masters is a kernel hacker who’s been

Kernel Watch

Jon Masters keeps an eye out for all the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.

ONGOING DEVELOPMENT

Right on cue, following the Linux 6.1 announcement,

Answers

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

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LETTER OF THE MONTH

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Cryptomator

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PowerShell

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JOSM

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Logseq

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Wix

Shashank Sharma takes the feature-rich site builder for a test drive.

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

A beastly “budget” gaming CPU that Christian Guyton has found has one big temporary drawback.

WattOS R12

Nate Drake explores how WattOS can bring your ancient hardware to life with this zippy, if spartan Linux distro.

Kali Linux 2022.4

If you exist in the grey twilight between good and evil, and want to look cool while doing it, David Rutland has just the distro for you.

Nitrux 2.5.1

An impressive beginner distro that’s well worth your time, even if you spend most of it tweaking the settings, says Mayank Sharma.

Victoria 3

“The peasants are revolting,” cries The Management, but really it’s just Jonathan Bolding serving up their afternoon tea and biscuits.

Roundup

Element 1.11.14 » Cinny 2.2.2 » Mirage 0.7.2 » NeoChat 223.09 » Fractal 4.4.0

Ease of installation

Most applications offer multiple package formats for installation.

Look and feel

You’ll see the interface a lot…

Logging in and getting started

Having conversations on Matrix is open until you set up your own groups.

Community and status

Use the power of community for yourself.

How are they made?

Language and framework make a long-term difference.

Encryption options

Look out for ways to protect privacy.

Frequency of updates

To use it, you need updates.

The Verdict

Matrix chat clients

ALSO CONSIDER

Syphon is an up and coming client that

Hot Pi projects

Dig in to our New Year smorgasbord of hot Pi projects, from Pico devices running MicroPython to full-Pi setups, with expert guidance from Les Pounder and Matt Holder.

I like to make it, make it

Welcome to the maker revolution – but first, get your Pi up to speed.

OVERCLOCK YOUR Pi

It’s easy to overclock your Pi to gain

Play retro games

Defend the universe, save the princess, win the race and all without spending a 10-pence piece!

Make a media centre

Settle down with your own open source media centre and watch the latest blockbusters with a side of Pi and popcorn.

Build a Wi-Fi router

Create a Raspberry Pi-based Wi-Fi router as a secure option for use around the home.

Track and scan planes

Use your Raspberry Pi to track aircraft or detect local devices to keep an eye on all kinds of data.

Master the Pi Pico GPIO

Get to grips with the Raspberry Pi Pico’s GPIO to open the gateway to a range of simple projects.

Convert currency

Work with remote data using an API and the Pi Pico W to make a live currency converter.

Build a smart home

Use ESPHome to feed a wide range of useful data to a smart home hub via a Raspberry Pi Pico W.

Control NeoPixel LEDs

Create animated lighting effects with the brightest LEDs connected to your Raspberry Pi Pico.

We’re on the case!

A case isn’t just for Christmas – it’s a life-long home for your chosen Raspberry Pi project, so make sure you pick a good one!

Contributing for non - coders

Aaron Peters, who is a coding tinkerer at best, describes some ways that non-technical folks can contribute to open source projects.

Santa Claus delivers extra Pis for Christmas

Saint Nick, aka Eben Upton, drops 100,000 extra Raspberry Pis on Tiny Tim just in time for Christmas.

Cool Pi 4

Not cool dude!

Aaeon Extreme!

Too much to handle?

Pi-TERNATIVE LIFESTYLE?

Neil Mohr badgers his small children into doing

Petoi Bittle Robot Dog

The rise of quadruped robots is upon us — their mission to boost STEM and AI learning with Anj Bryant.

Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro

Denise Bertacchi wishes everything in life could be relied upon to add more features while remaining excellent value.

Pi robots: motors and control

TUTORIALS Build a robot

Tackling terminal tabular table tools!

With the right tool at his disposal, Shashank Sharma has no trouble making sense of vast heaps of tabular data.

Plan and write your next smash-hit novel

Nick Peers reveals how to develop better stories with the help of our favourite freemium app for budding novelists.

Polish your video footage with Kdenlive

Michael Reed looks at how you can use Kdenlive to produce highquality videos suitable for uploading all over the internet.

More fun with layers and masks

Karsten Günther reveals how GIMP manages layers, what the different types are and how to use masks for subtle effects.

Create better QR codes

Mike Bedford reveals how to get creative with your QR codes to draw attention to them better and help people sign up to newsletters and more.

Nifty note-taking with Obsidian

Nate Drake walks you through adopting the almighty Markdown-based note-taking app Obsidian to see whether it lives up to its legend.

Get Serenity – direct from the source

What do you get if you take a modern kernel, a classic GUI and a handful of custom apps? Michael Reed investigates SerenityOS.

Monitor your TCP/IP networks with eBPF

Naturally suspicious, Mihalis Tsoukalos keeps an eye on all his network traffic using eBPF – and he’ll show you how, too.

Finish your cataloguing app

With a tear in his eye, Matt Holder finishes up our cataloguing database app by adding search and export functionality.