Articles by Alexander Tolstoy

• Issue 289 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - FireDM, Mplayer, Rnote, Mailspring, Airsane, Fbcat, Topgrade, Superdux, Winterapples, Casper-fs and Zplora.
  
• Issue 289 - Roundup: Open source app stores - AppCenter, Bauh, Discover, Gnome Software, HaikuDepot
  
• Issue 288 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Falkon, Zapzap, Scribus, Detox, Notepad Next, Whoogle Search, Qxkb5, Freeciv, Gbajs2, Rembg and Lector.
  
• Issue 287 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Weather Widget 2, Fancontrol GUI, Wine, DaedalOS, FreyrJS, Chmod-CLI, Rescuezilla, Warble, SpaceHuggers, Efiboots and Ehh.
  
• Issue 286 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - System Monitor Center, Tesseract, Libtree, Video trimmer, Ntfy, Rusty Aquarium, Caravaggio, FishFight, AssaultCube, Kage Studio, System G
  
• Issue 285 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Fsearch, Mapscii, Telegrand, Girouette, Sysmontask, Luna Paint, AppImageLauncher, Plop, Let’s Surf, QOI and Xplorer.
  
• Issue 284 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Audacity, Pscircle, Edotool, Quickemu, USB Imager, GtkStressTesting, Key Mapper, Sonic Robo Blast 2, NumptyPhysics, Js-dos and Larynx.
  
• Issue 283 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got time to take a week off work and do nothing, he’s too busy testing FOSS like: Glyphtracer, OnlyOffice, Open Video Downloader, gThumb, JPEG XL, Annotator, Monitor, SpaceCadet, A/B Street, Metadata Cleaner and Fake Background.
  
• Issue 282 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got time to go and stuff ballot papers into boxes, he’s too busy stuffing software into his system like: Czkawka, Cozy, Tomatoid5, Scrcpy, VMPK, Biblioteq, Timefind, SuperTuxKart, Fheroes2, Reptyr and Hover Zoom+.
  
• Issue 281 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - PDF Mix Tool, DroidCam, Fractal, Polyfoto, ImprovedTube, LSD, Pam_usb, Billiards, Blues Brothers, EasyEffects and Latte Dock.
  
• Issue 280 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Alexander Tolstoy has no plan to start a land war in Afghanistan, as we all know how that ends. Instead he’s declaring war on the best ever FOSS gems, like: VLC, Ksnip, Waterfox, Far2l, G’MIC, OpenSnitch, WinXP, OpenTTD, 0 A.D., Lutris and KDE Connect.
  
• Issue 279 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Alexander Tolstoy ignores the pain of Russia crashing out of Euro 2020 by providing the lastest FOSS gems, including Inkscape, Maestrial, Cinnamon, Qmplay2, GitQlient, Gifski, FreeTube, Open Surge, Quantum Game 2, YOGA and Cpufetch.
  
• Issue 278 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got time to take his Russian ISS module home – he’s too busy taking home the latest open source offerings, including KDFM, Oil, Mousemic, Diskgraph, Mergerfs, Fedy, Autokey, Eggvance, URL Snake, Pacstall and Xbrzscale.
  
• Issue 278 - Tutorial: Yocto: Build a tiny distro -
  
• Issue 277 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Shortwave, Cosmic, Haruna, Vizex, eBPFSnitch, Evilpixie, Nethogs-Qt, Kitchen Tales, zFRAG, Optimizt and SingleFileZ.
  
• Issue 276 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Audacity, Clapper, Haguichi, Media Downloader, Panon, Radiotray-NG, Dragit, Balla, CommandLineHeroes, Pixelorama and Trash-cli.
  
• Issue 275 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got the time to read every Russian Tweet, he’s far too busy reading every new FOSS release and writing them up here, like Photoflare, Qytdl, KWipe, GabTag, Fvid, Draw.io, Spech, 0 A.D., Quadplay, Guitar and Sonice.
  
• Issue 274 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got time to give tours of multi-million pound grand palaces, he’s too busy touring hot FOSS, including: CudaText, Reco, Pingnoo, Farge, Tty-share, Png2svg, Deskreen, Super Bombinhas, Pomodoro, Pdfarranger and Visum.
  
• Issue 273 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - EiskaltDC++, TabFS, TuxPaint, Chipmunk, Darktable, EasyLogic Studio, Zenith, Tux vs. Yeti, Invasion, Qsnapstore, Dify
  
• Issue 272 - Coverdisc: HotPicks - Waterfox, SongRec, Xsuspender, YUView, AFTL, PixelDefence, Micro-racing, Distribyted, Topalias
  
• Issue 271 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Puddletag, Filmulator, Far2l, Dooble, MiniPaint, Straw viewer, Triangle, Pick2Hand, Zabuyaki, Flying Carpet, Bluedo
  
• Issue 270 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Nuclear Simplest Studio Crazydiskmark Flameshot Wol_qt Identity Sane-airscan Cycle Veloren Ventoy Koi
  
• Issue 270 - Tutorial: Advanced RAW tricks -
  
• Issue 269 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Firefox Htop Outrun Pixelitor Memavaild Krop Diagrams Xmoto Fortify Oomox Flowblade
  
• Issue 269 - Tutorial: Edit RAW photos -
  
• Issue 268 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - LibreOffice Pinta Basilisk Boop-GTK HDCK QtFileExplorer Prelockd Destination Sol Matchimals.fun digiKam GSConnect
  
• Issue 267 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Symphonium Cadmus E4head Gromit-MPX Fsmon Qt-SESAM Video-trimmer Pillar Valley Caveexpress Flatpak Viper Browser
  
• Issue 266 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Audacity, Ksnip PDF, Quirk, Apostrophe, Pidgin, QEMU, Bauh, Blobby 2, JFDuke3D, Parachute, Wihotspot
  
• Issue 264 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Seamonkey, Audacious, Auto-cpufreq, Termgraph, Ulauncher, Httpdirfs, PaperWM, Byte, Vooki, Image Viewer, Edelweiss, OpenTTD
  
• Issue 263 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - MyPaint, Fontpreview, VokoscreenNG, APK Editor, Studio, G’MIC, XanMod, Regards, GZDoom, Typer, Nmap, Strawberry
  
• Issue 261 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Tartube, AwesomeBump, UserManager, Minase, Tutanota, JSPaint, ScreenGrab, Tower Time, Rygar, Hardinfo, Fileinfo
  
• Issue 261 - Roundup: Plotting apps - LibreOffice, Veusz, Jade, Dia, LabPlot
  
• Issue 260 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Trinity, MusicBrain, Picard, Veusz, Reiser5, QtHashSum, NodeTube, Tangram, Bonsai, Qtfm Marble Marcher, The House
  
• Issue 259 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Quentier, Dutree, HandBrake, Darktable, DownZemAll, Typon, Sys2dv, Anki, Eddy, Doomsday, Seeds Game
  
• Issue 258 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Mailspring, eDEX-UI, PNPM, Anbox, Coxy, GTK3-mushrooms, Yazram, Crow, Translate, The Powder, Toy, N-gon, Zstd
  
• Issue 257 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Paperwork, WebTorrent Desktop, Exaile, Npkill, Sampler, App Outlet, Fre:ac, Connectagram, Lunar Lander, Homebrew, Kitty
  
• Issue 256 - Feature: Compile from the source -
  
• Issue 256 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Thunderbird, CUPS, Nedit-ng, Kernelstub, LazPaint, Crusta Browser, HungryCloner, MonkeySling, Evade and Destroy, Drill, Translatium
  
• Issue 255 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Sweet Home 3D, Libre Office, Olivia, FreeTube, Dynamic Wallpaper, Editor, Cloaker, Latte, NRedneck, Pekka Kana 2 Community Edition
  
• Issue 254 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Foliate, F.U.S.S., CPU-X, Chomper, Timeshift, Jade, Gifcurry, Pentobi, SpeedDreams, Libheif, GoTTY
  
• Issue 253 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Slate, Celluloid, Cumulus, GParted, Ranger, Ffsend, Drawpile, XMoto.js, Minetest, Draco Wizardli
  
• Issue 252 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Hyper, DiffPDF, KWin-lowlatency, LanguageTool, Kepka, Password Safe, Devede NG, SuperTuxKart, OpenPatrician, Stacer, WallGen
  
• Issue 251 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - VSCodium, Retropixels, Deen, ConnMan, DeaDBeeF, QtRaw, TBtray, Ninslash, HTML5 Tower Defense, Safe Eyes, GPT fdisk
  
• Issue 250 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - OpenSnitch, Ananicy, PDFsam, TLP, Geary, File Commander, Bookworm, Escape Space, Mr. Rescue, Apart GTK, Falkon
  
• Issue 249 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - DigiKam, Olive, Cygwin, LibreOffice, ODrive, Quaternion, Klogg, Underrun, Sandspiel, Hyperfine, Friture
  
• Issue 248 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Wine, Infinite Image Scroller, Ephemeral, Go-Rsync, FPM, SteganoGAN, Blessed-Contrib, APFS Fuse, Zopfli, Rabbit Escape, Webq2
  
• Issue 247 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Virtualbox, Midori, GSConnect, Fragments, Watchman, RawTherapee, Cinnamon, Lsix, Strawberry, Supertux, Escoria in Daiza
  
• Issue 247 - Roundup: Photo editors - Gimp, Rawtherapee, Darktable, Lightzone, Pixeluvo
  
• Issue 246 - Review: Sailfish X - also Sailfish 3
  
• Issue 245 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Pantheon, Hottoe, Eviacam, Mednaffe, Kded-rotation, Zchunk, Arrow.scm, Blackcat-Youtube- Downloader, Rooster, Astromenace, Gate-demo
  
• Issue 244 - HotPicks: HotPicks - Haiku, Eolie, Heimer, Acid Cam, Audacity, Treeline, GrafX2, EtherApe, Gaupol, Zabuyaki, uRacer
  
• Issue 243 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Gnome, KWipe, Qtwaifu2x, Darling-dmg, Qt Box Editor, Keepassxc, Bimp, Gydl, Xed, Eduke32, ACR
  
• Issue 242 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Zanshin, Radeon-profile, Marker, Tremotesf, LibreSprite, LibreOffice, Socr, Pale Moon, ImageFeatureDetector, Freeciv, Doom Retro
  
• Issue 241 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - MyTetra, SolarSystem, Elisa, Dilay, Stereophotoview, Browsh, Alacritty, OpenRA, Defend
  
• Issue 240 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Jade, System-autoupdate, Avidemux, PrestoPalette, KShare, Asciinema, Qt3124wall, MarkovUI, Speedcrunch, Hadron, Freeserf
  
• Issue 239 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - LxQt, Chafa, qBittorrent, X.org, Krusader, Cronopete, Bottles, Xpiks, Coolreader, Cow’s Revenge, Mindustry
  
• Issue 238 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Gimp, CMake, Peek, Pragha, Smilla, Enlarger, ReactOS, XDM, F3, PIP, Quantum Game, Bombermaaan
  
• Issue 237 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Gnome, Amarok, Shotwell, RawTherapee, Krita, Krunner-translator, Dementia, Stacer, Qsoundrec, Tower game, Battle for Wesnoth
  
• Issue 236 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Falkon, Ternimal, Ddrescue, Wine, Polo, Bleachbit, Gnome Layout Manager, Fstransform, VLC, Daemon-vs-demon, Stupac
  
• Issue 235 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - LibreOffice, Butteraugli, Telegram-Qt, Latte Dock, Dosbox-X, Nitroshare, TupiTube, Polybar, MATE, Phaser Quest, SDLPoP
  
• Issue 235 - Tutorial: Optimise your photos -
  
• Issue 234 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Darktable, Ddgr, Midnight Commander, Flameshot, Liquidshell, Posterizer, Andriod File Transfer, Catimg, Desktopfolder, Bemuse, HexGL
  
• Issue 233 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Firefox, FLOffice, Spivak, Julius, GNU Time, GuetzliImageIOPlugin, Minitube, CaveExpress, QJournalctl, Screenshotgun, Cfg2html
  
• Issue 232 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Audacity, Outwiker, Dnfdragora, Wisetagger, Torrential, DPixel, Otter Browser, Yarock, Zeit, Supertuxkart, Space Logic Adventure
  
• Issue 231 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Storyboarder, Borg, Calibre, Gnome Commander, MConnect, Geary, Zrandr, Glances, Klavaro, BeFive, Smartball, ChickenPeppa.
  
• Issue 230 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Shutter, Trufont, Babe-Qt, SVAR, Palemoon, Imgp,LANShare, Moneyguru, Focuswriter, Agent 008 Balls, Piu-Piu-SH
  
• Issue 229 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - gImageReader, Notepadqq, QupZilla, Green-recorder, Qmmp, YouTube-DL, Torrent File Editor, 0 A.D., Dolphin Island 2, Fontforge, NanoTTS
  
• Issue 228 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Shotcut, Makehuman, Rapid Photo Downloader, Wine, Qt5ct, Parlatype, PulseEffects, Doublespeak, Tilix, Stunt Rally, Dead Ascent
  
• Issue 227 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - G’MIC-Qt, Ubunsys, HTTraQt, Ring, Gsmartcontrol, Scribus, Krita, KWave, SmartDeblur, The Butterfly Effect, Frogatto
  
• Issue 226 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Flowblade, Kmail, Screencloud, ANGRY search, tVitunes, Min, Curlew, Konv Feedreader, SpeedLazer, Extreme Tux Racer
  
• Issue 225 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Otter Browser, Simon, Persepolis, Elisa, Nylas Mail, Libva, GNU Emacs, OpenTTD, Warzone 2100, CMST, Redshift
  
• Issue 224 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - MATE, MtPaint, Meteo-Qt, NTFS-3G, Webenginepart, GNU Nano Classifier, Guetzli LanguageTool, Man vs Olives, Tank island
  
• Issue 223 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - AzPainter, GrSync, KSnip, QRab Findimagedupes, Cloudcmd, Latte Dock, Buttercup, Machines vs Machines, 404 Elm Street, Argos
  
• Issue 222 - HotPicks: HotPicks - Raw Therapee, Qt FLIF Plugin, Babe-Qt, Neofetch, QtPass, KDE Connect, QStardict, RCloneBrowser, Marble, Linux Air Combat, Operation Nautak
  
• Issue 222 - Review: Chapeau 24 -
  
• Issue 222 - Review: FreeDOS 1.2 -
  
• Issue 222 - Review: Peppermint 7 -
  
• Issue 222 - Tutorial: P2P: filesharing -
  
• Issue 221 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Seamonkey, Eqonomize, Gnome Recipes, VPaint, Mermaid, Darktable, 2H4U, Veraball, Kadu, Inkscape, MPD
  
• Issue 220 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - GNU IceCat, CuteReport, Hyper Darling, myFinances SiriKal,i NewBreeze, QWeborf, Abiword, Unknown Horizons, Hexalate
  
• Issue 219 - Feature: Hotpicks - Krusader Digikam Neural Enhance Tuxguitar Devilspie2 Kup, Homebank Featherpad Spek Mouse Boat Freeciv
  
• Issue 219 - Review: Jolla C phone -
  
• Issue 218 - HotPicks: HotPicks - OnlyOffice DE, SVG Cleaner GUI, Profile-sync-daemon, Kexi, Vim, KolorManager, Ungoogled-Chromium, Gradio, Feh, Dave Gnukem, Quetoo
  
• Issue 217 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Krita, Webcamoid, Wine, Wireshark, VirtualBox, Fontweak, Randrctl, Ktuberling, Chromium, QDirStat, CUPS
  
• Issue 216 - Tutorial: Bash - how to write scripts -
  
• Issue 215 - HotPicks: LXF 215 HotPicks - Tolstoy seeks out the best free and open source software with his legion of 3D-printed drones: Cumulus, Ghetto-Skype, Gimp, La Maperia, Lepton, NaSC, Nutty, Qloud, Qt WebBrowser.
  
• Issue 215 - Roundup: Roundup: Financial software - Envelope, KMyMoney, GnuCash, Grisbi and Skrooge.
  
• Issue 214 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Eko, StyleProject, QtVirtManager, SquashFS, Synapse, qBittorent, Trojitá, FlightGear, Raging Gardens, Pdfgrep, Shotwell
  
• Issue 213 - Tutorial: Image editing -
  
• Issue 213 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - QOwnNotes, Neural-style, WeatherDesk, Screenkey, Kronometer, Relax and recovre, Smartmontools, CorsixTH, TSC, Xpiks, Etcher
  
• Issue 212 - HotPicks: LXF212 HotPicks - Our rambunctious Russian slogs through the snowy wasteland of the Interweb, pausing only to chip ice from his grizzled chin, in search of the best in free and open source software: Qupzilla, Mutt, Pandoc, Wego, Alexandra, PCManFM, sk1, DeSmuME, Simutrans,
  
• Issue 211 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Gnome Photos, Piper, Enguage, Digitizer, Pass, Firejail, TBFTSS: The Pandoran Wars, Hextris, Xdg-App, Kid3, NTFS-3G, qTox
  
• Issue 210 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - LibreOffice, Retroshare, Htop, FromScratch, Notes-up, MComix, Logwatch Raincat Pop, Pop, Win! Wammu, Cellwriter
  
• Issue 209 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - MyPaint, Moksha, Knemo,WebcamStudio, KeePassX, FET, Opus, Widelands, Duckhunt-JS, Retext, ABCDE
  
• Issue 208 - HotPicks: HotPicks - Sprut.io Mumble, Let’s Encrypt, Qemu, SuperTux, Biniax, Zeal, PeaZip, Mixxx, MP3fs, Boxes
  
• Issue 207 - HotPicks: HotPicks - GIMP, Taglib, X.org Server, Wireshark, Airnef, ColorCode, OpenTTD, Dukto, Sylpheed, Nixnote2, Enlightenment
  
• Issue 206 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Mate GNU LibreJS Nuntius N1 Double Commander, Deadbeef Lincity-ng, Powermanga Cadubi Arista Eiskaltdcpp
  
• Issue 205 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - SweetHome3D Liri PulseAudio eXeLearning SANE Solar Wolf TORCS FLIF Bomi QMMP
  
• Issue 205 - Roundup: Video Players -
  
• Issue 204 - HotPicks: Hotpicks - Midori, Trinity, Add-on converter, ZSH, Terminator, Mega Mario, Oilwar, Drawpile, Solaar, sView Briss
  
• Issue 203 - HotPicks: Hotpicks -
  
• Issue 203 - Roundup: Filesystems - Btrfs, ext4 and more
  
• Issue 201 - HotPicks: Hotpicks -
  
• Issue 200 - Review: HotPicks -
  
• Issue 200 - Review: Alternative Open Source OSes - Chromium OS Debian GNU/Hurd Haiku OpenIndiana PC-BSD
  
• Issue 199 - HotPicks: HotPicks -
  
• Issue 198 - HotPicks: HotPicks -
  
• Issue 197 - Feature: Escape the GUI -
  
• Issue 196 - HotPicks: HotPicks -
  
• Issue 196 - Roundup: Privacy Distros -
  
• Issue 195 - HotPicks: HotPicks -
  
• Issue 194 - HotPicks: Hotpicks -
  
• Issue 193 - HotPicks: HotPicks -
  
• Issue 193 - Roundup: Vector graphics editors -
  
• Issue 192 - HotPicks: HotPicks -
  
• Issue 191 - HotPicks: Hotpicks -
  
• Issue 141 - Feature: Get next-generation graphics now! - There's a new display server called Wayland in town, and it's set to send the ageing X Window System into retirement. Want to get an early start with this cutting-edge tech? We guide you through the process.
  
• Issue 138 - Tutorial: Shotwell: Sort your photos - If your Pictures folder is full of photos of your cat, then you need this tutorial to sort the wheat from the chaff.