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MEET THE TEAM

We’re not avoiding the office, we’re building our own and taking it with us, but what’s the oddest place you’ve found yourself doing work?

Freeeedom!

We’re all avoiding the office these days (just

The Red Hat paywall

Red Hat announces source code of RHEL will only be available to paying customers, who can’t redistribute it.

Lemmy numbers spike after Reddit ban

A ban on subreddits helped promote alternative Lemmy with a general boost to federated platforms.

100% free GNU Linux-libre

Bye-bye binary blobs – build a truly free system.

CLONE WARS

“Red Hat’s changes to the way it distributes

DOWN TO THE WIRE

Ashok Sidipotu is a senior software engineer at

Animated JPEGs

FFmpeg has now merged JPEG-XL support. Is this the next step to widespread adoption of the format?

Wine comes to Mac OS

Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is based on CrossOver’s code.

A wild desktop appears!

Kera Desktop touts itself as an easy and exciting way to enjoy your favourite OS.

Distro watch

What’s behind the free software sofa?

WHAT A NUMBER!

Italo Vignoli is one of founders of LibreOffice

BE KIND PEOPLE!

Jon Masters has been involved with Linux for

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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WRITE TO US Do you have a burning

CudaText

ADVANCED TEXT EDITOR

QMPlay2

MEDIA PLAYER

Mixxx

DJ SOFTWARE

Unison

FILE SYNCHRONISER

NormCap

COPY TEXT

Gromit-MPX

ON-SCREEN ANNOTATION

Open Fodder

SHOOT-’EM-UP

Empty Clip

RPG

LocalSend

FILE TRANSFER

Jellyfin

MEDIA SERVER

WD Red Pro 20TB

High-capacity NAS OptiNAND on a platter impresses Shane Downing.

OpenSUSE 15.5

Nate Drake revisits the first Linux distro he ever used and finds that, like a fine wine, OpenSUSE has only improved with age.

Thunderbird 115

Nate Drake takes a sneak peek at the upcoming Thunderbird and finds it still comfortably ruling the roost.

Debian 12 Bookworm

Nate Drake burrows into Debian 12 (Bookworm) and is dazzled by the array of new features, including support for non-free firmware.

Roots of Pacha

Reinventing the wheel sounds like a dream to Management – they’ve sent Andrea Shearon back in time to reap the rewards!

Computer-aided design

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

FREE ALL YOUR FILES

It’s time to stop Big Tech being in control of your online documents. Let Jonni Bidwell show you how with Nextcloud and Collabora Office.

Going over the Pi Pico BASICs

Relive your spaghetti code days on your Pi Pico!

I/O Learning HAT

Les Pounder wants to automate his home because his new office is too far away from the coffee machine. Maybe now he can.

Sovol SV06

Denise Bertacchi wonders what if an Ender and a Prusa MK3 had a baby?

NeoPixel URL control

Les Pounder thinks of NeoPixels as LED candy. They taste awful but look phenomenal. Will they taste better with a slice of Pi?

Set up a game development system

DEVELOPMENT

Bootstrap your LINUX career

Discover how Linux certification can help you. Stuart Burns explains the why and the how, with a few pro tips thrown in for good measure.

EVOLUTION OF CODING

Mike Bedford reveals how the programming languages of the ’50s morphed into today’s most used languages.

Multi-protocol transfer

Shashank ‘Proficient With SMB, SSH, SCP and More’ Sharma never has to rely on thumb drives to move data across different machines…

Take and organise notes with ease

Nick Peers reveals how to put your thoughts and ideas in order with the note-taking app to rule them all.

Build a static project website on GitHub

Matt Holder investigates static site generators, what they are useful for and why they are better than CMS in some situations.

Build a RISC-V LED sign

Tam Hanna takes the GigaDevice RISC-V microcontroller for a spin and creates a gadget that displays impolite messages in large red letters.

Add a little funk to mathematical plots

Always one looking to spice up his life, Ferenc Deák tries out a new function-plotting tool that’s packing a Pascal-like language.

Build your own hardware firewall

Worried about intruders and hack attacks? Nik Rawlinson shows how to take charge of network security with the BSD-based pfSense firewall.

Code your own Python text adventure

Nate Drake guides you through creating your own interactive text adventure with Python. This time, we LOOK at items…

Rediscover speed with the Redis revolution

REDIS

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