LINUX FORMAT

MEET THE TEAM

No free lunches

They’re not Google’s photos, they’re mine! To the

The right to repair movement gains steam

HARDWARE

Ubuntu working on Windows

OPERATING SYSTEMS

YOUR DATA IS YOURS

Matt Yonkovit is Percona’s Head of Open Source

HORSES & COURSES

OPINION

IBM’s COBOL comes to Linux

PROGRAMMING

Librem 5 progress

HARDWARE

New Android Bluetooth stack

ANDROID

Distro Watch

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

PANFROST TO VULKAN

OPINION

HERE’S STALLMAN

OPINION

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

Audacity

Version: 3.0 Web: www.audacityteam.org Hot off the

Clapper

Version: 0.1.0 Web: https://github.com/ Rafostar/clapper A t

Haguichi

Version: 1.4.3 Web: https://github.com/ ztefn/haguichi T ime to

Media Downloader

Version: 1.1.0 Web: https://github.com/ mhogomchungu/media-downloader L ately

Panon

Version: 0.4.6 Web: https://github.com/rbn42/panon C alling all

Radiotray-NG

Version: 0.2.7 Web: https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng W hen it

Dragit

Version: 0.5 Web: https://github.com/ sireliah/dragit F ile sharing

Balla

Version: GIT Web: https://github.com/ TimothyGramnaes/Ball-game C asual browser-based

Command Line Heroes

Version: GIT Web: https://github.com/ CommandLineHeroes/clh-bash H ow many

Pixelorama

Version: 0.8.2 Web: https://github . com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama T he

Trash-cli

Version: 0.20.12.26 Web: https:// github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli A trash can

On the disc

Discover the highlights from this month’s packed DVD!

Samsung 980 1TB SSD

A strange drive for stranger times, says a perfectly normal  Alan Dexter

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Navi 22 joins the GPU party, trimming core counts, die size and price, as Jarred Walton discovers. If only you could get your hands on it…

Kodachi 8.3

A self-confessed Kodachi fanboy, Mayank Sharma is left speechless by its latest release and doesn’t mind if this review sounds biased (which it is)

Shells.com

Having surrendered most of his existence to the cloud, Mayank Sharma tests a service that might just let him chuck his computer out as well

AlmaLinux OS 8.3

Mayank Sharma is flabbergasted that someone would spend a million dollars to create a community supported clone of a distro

Desperados 3

Management love maverick office types who shoot from the hip, but when Fraser Brown did it they were ducking for cover!

Web browsers

Default web browsers are fine, but there’ll come a time when you’ll demand more from your online tools. Shashank Sharma presents five contenders

ESCAPE GOOGLE PHOTOS

Google’s free photo storage is a thing of the past. Jonni Bidwell has some free software to get your albums in order

Free your photos

Whether at home or in the cloud, your photos deserve a new host

Install Nextcloud

Discover how you can tap into the power of Docker Compose to get Nextcloud up and running in a jiffy just like the professionals

Transfer your photos

Now that Nextcloud is installed and operational, it’s time to get your photos into it, and out of reaching distance from Google

Let’s look at Lychee

Get simply beautiful photo hosting with a tropical, fruity aftertaste

OPENSTREETMAP TURNS ONE HUNDRED MILLION!

Google Maps isn’t the only mapping tool on the block. One alternative in particular, OpenStreetMaps, employs an open crowd-sourcing approach, as Mike Bedford reveals

GET INTO GENTOO

Famed as the fastest penguin on the planet, Mats Tage explains how you to can use it to run the fastest of Tux boxes

BITTEN BY THE Pi BUG

Andy Piper is a senior staff developer advocate

Pi 5 confirmed and the Pico’s name

Eben Upton confirms the Pi 5, another Pico and what the model number actually means

AdaFruit ItsyBitsy

Teeny weeny Pico bikini

Plant your Pico

Seeed maker base

Inky Impression

Les Pounder enjoys pop art and eight-bit computers, so this new screen from Pimoroni is an ideal way to display his favourite style of art

Building code for microcontrollers

CIRCUITPYTHON

Build your own URL shortening service

WEB APPLICATION

System boot speeds

While Shashank Sharma doesn’t much care for cars that can go 0-60 in six seconds or less, he does expect his distro to boot up in no time at all

Administer servers with your browser

Nick Peers reveals how to use Cockpit to access and manage your headless server remotely – no keyboard or display required

Model and render objects in Blender

We love tea at Linux Format Towers – even that fancy herbal stuff – so Michael Reed is going to show you how to make a lovely cuppa… in Blender

Emulating the Commodore PET

Les Pounder relives a time when a roguish smuggler who looked a lot like Harrison Ford shot first and your computer was ready to code in seconds!

Protecting documents with security tools

Kseniya Fedoruk applies digital signatures, passwords and watermarks, to ensure extra security when working with documents in OnlyOffice

Explore Forth on the Jupiter Ace

Mike Bedford reveals the Jupiter Ace, the contemporary of the Sinclair ZX81 that was programmed in Forth rather than the more popular BASIC

Coding Zombie Runner with Python

Calvin Robinson creates a custom toolbox for quickly manipulating a custom-built environment, complete with graphical user interface

Collect and graph metrics with Python

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