In with the old!

We’re in no position to talk about getting

Ubuntu 23.04: Lunar Lobster latest

Exciting things are happening: a new installer, hardened app security and a revamped desktop environment.

Linux on Apple Mx hardware

The Linux kernel now officially supports M-series Macs. But before you get too excited, full integration is a long way off.

It’s a flat future

Flathub to go independent and accept app payments.

END OF LIFE

Donnie Berkholz is senior vice president product at

RELIABLY SECURE

Keith Edmunds is MD of Tiger Computing, which

Fractional scaling is still coming…

Gnome to support protocol.

Half-Life 1 gets ray tracing

Old game given makeover.

Plasma 6 is in development

Version 6 uses Qt6.

Distro watch

What’s behind the free software sofa?

HANDS UP!

Moshi Turner is a software engineer at Collabora.

Kernel watch

Jon Masters keeps up with all the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.

Answers

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

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Time Switch

Version : 2023.01.28 Web : https:// github.com/fsobolev/timeswitch

ChatGPT

Version: 0.11.0 Web : https://app.nofwl.com O penAI’s

Tokodon

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CopyQ

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HSTR

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Katalog

Version : 1.16 Web: https://sourceforge . net/projects/katalogg

Stellarium

Version: 1.2 Web: https://stellarium.org S tellarium

iQPuzzle

Version: 1.2.9 Web: https://elth0r0 . github.io/iqpuzzle

Veloren

Version: 0.14.0 Web: https://veloren.net V eloren

Eiciel

Version: 0.10.0 Web: https://rofi . roger-ferrer.org/eiciel

Forgetpass

Version: 1.0.12 Web: https://github . com/alexkdeveloper/forgetpass Virtually

Sabrent Rocket 2230 SSD

Shane Downing test-drives the perfect Steam Deck drive upgrade.

Intel Core i5 13400F

Being skinflint northern types around here, it’s high praise for Jacob Ridley to say this is the best budget processor right now!

Brave Browser 1.48.171

Nate Drake climbs on his soap box and explains why Brave is the last word in private browsing.

Endless OS 5.0.1

Nate Drake has hours of endless fun with the colourful and simple-to-use Endless OS without once needing to go online.

Vanilla OS 22.10 R7

With his first taste of the ultra-secure Vanilla OS, Nate Drake finds that plain doesn’t by any means equal boring.

Tor Browser 12.0.3

Nate Drake nosedives into the dark net with the Tor Browser and is blown away by its new censorship-resistant features.

Rogue Legacy 2

Workers with endless descendants happy to repeat their work over and over? Anne-Marie Coyle has never seen The Management so happy…

Lightweight desktops

In search of extra speed and efficient use of resources checks out the best lightweight desktop environments

SAVE YOUR OLD PC!

Give your old hardware some extra longevity and beat the fiscal blues. shows you how Windows fails and Linux Mint prevails

New Raspberry Pi camera launched

The £50 camera eliminates rolling shutter artefacts, the bane of digital photography!

RetroFlag GPi CASE 2W

Going back to the future is Les Pounder’s go-to retro phrase – let’s hope this case isn’t as long in the tooth.

Biqu Hurakan

Forever cleaning surfaces with isopropyl alcohol, Denise Bertacchi wonders whether this is the printer for her?

Using the GPIO with MicroBlocks

Les Pounder scratches an itch and builds code for his Raspberry Pi Pico using drag-and-drop coding blocks.

Building a web-based robot control interface

In part five of his series, Les Pounder shows us how to build a custom web interface for controlling your DIY robot.

TRACK YOUR FITNESS

Michael Reed looks at an open source Android app that can track your fitness.

Fast and easy image processing

Shashank Sharma dreams of achieving a leaner version of himself. Until then, he’ll settle for an ImageMagick derivative that’s skinnier, yet useful.

Host your own music streaming server

Nick Peers discovers how to make your personal music collection available from anywhere with this simple, but effective, music server.

Relive classic FOCAL days on your PDP-11

It’s probably not one of your favourite languages, but Mike Bedford says if you want to learn about programming’s heritage, don’t ignore FOCAL.

Enhance GIMP with must-have plugins

For many years, plugins have extended the basic functions of GIMP. Karsten Günther pick the ones he thinks you shouldn’t be without.

Build your own distro with NixOS

“Why, I do declare!” Matt Holder proclaims as he builds his very own operating system, using just an ISO file and declarative text files…

ChatGPT troubleshoots your Linux problems

Nick Peers investigates the different ways in which ChatGPT might help you maintain and fix problems with your PC.

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE!

Interested in learning a new language? Or just curious about current hot technologies? Darien Graham-Smith explores the language leaderboard.

Become a C++ chess master

Tiring of retro gaming rewrites, Andrew Smith turns his grandmaster mind to more classical games in a 3D style.

Observability of the kernel and containers

Barely able to contain himself, Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to use eBPF to monitor applications, the Linux kernel and containers