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Issue 293 - Feature: Get into coding - Code monkey Jonni Bidwell’s firmware has glitched out,
so he must teach himself
to code again.
Issue 293 - Feature: Physical code projects - Jonni Bidwell doesn’t fake it till he makes it! So here he is making a Raspberry Pi-powered environment monitor, that is. Roll up your coding sleeves and join in the fun.
Issue 291 - Feature: Inside Bodhi Linux - Three humble developers of Bodhi Linux enlighten Jonni Bidwell on the ways of Zen and the art of distro maintenance.
Issue 288 - Feature: Finding equi-Libre-um - You might think LibreOffice is popular enough to not need assistance from the open source community. Time to think again, discovers Jonni Bidwell
Issue 287 - Feature: Charitable characters - The Emmabuntüs collective enlightens Jonni Bidwell as to its kind and open source efforts, helping to distribute second-hand computers to communities in need.
Issue 283 - Feature: Licence to Bill - Jonni Bidwell’s studied licence minutiae and fears big business threatens the future of copyleft and software freedom.
Issue 283 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Ubuntu 21.10 and Devuan 4.0
Issue 280 - Feature: 30 years of Linux - Discover how a 21-year-old’s bedroom coding project took over the world and a few other things along the way…
Issue 280 - Feature: What makes the kernel tick? - After being around for 30 years, let’s take a peek inside… Linux is just a kernel, but as Jonni Bidwell discovers there’s an awful
lot going on in there.
Issue 279 - Feature: Raspberry Pi Streaming - Camera shy Jonni Bidwell conquers his fears as he harnesses the power of open source to live-stream his extravagant lifestyle.
Issue 279 - Feature: Repair and restore - Fixit-bot Jonni Bidwell activates a hand-picked selection of rescue distros to diagnose and cure diverse Linux problems.
Issue 279 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Rescue toolkit: Clonezilla, Rescuezilla, SystemRescue, Zorin OS 15.3 (32-bit)
Issue 278 - Feature: Faster, better servers - As the dust settles following Red Hat’s winding down of CentOS, Jonni Bidwell looks for alternatives.
Issue 277 - Feature: Linux Formats new $HOME - Jonni Bidwell has one month to save Linux Format’s web presence. He claims that he didn’t sign up for this. Fate has other ideas…
Issue 277 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Ubuntu 21.04, MX Linux 19.4
Issue 276 - Feature: Escape Google Photos - Google’s free photo storage is a thing of the past. Thankfully, Jonni Bidwell has some free software to
get your albums in order.
Issue 274 - Feature: Fortress Linux - Linux is pretty secure, but Jonni Bidwell has studied the threatscape and recommends applying reinforcements.
Issue 274 - Feature: Sensors and sensibility - Remembering a past life where he gazed
on dials and Galilean thermometers,
Jonni Bidwell examines Linux’s system monitoring offerings.
Issue 274 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Linux Mint 20.1, Sparky 5.14
Issue 273 - Feature: Better virtual machines - Forget about the draconian confines of reality and immerse yourself (well, your computing)
in a virtual world. Jonni Bidwell’s here with a machines-inside-machines extravaganza.
Issue 270 - Feature: Chat Zulip - Excited by our recent interview with Zulip founder Tim Abbott, we install the Slack-beating chat system for ourselves, as Jonni Bidwell reports.
Issue 270 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Kali Linux 2020.3
Issue 269 - Feature: Build the ultimate media server - Using Plex
Issue 269 - Interview: Zulip - Jonni Bidwell talks to Tim Abbott about how a printer notification protocol combined with a kernel patching
mechanism led to the Zulip chat program.
Issue 269 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - free ebooks, 4MLinux 34, Enso OS 0.4
Issue 266 - Feature: Linux Mint 20 - Get it. Install it. Love it.
Issue 266 - Feature: Mainframe Mage - Jonni Bidwell reconnects with mainframe guru John Mertic and somehow ends up talking about Doom and cheesecake...
Issue 266 - Feature: Answers - More printers, more Wine and Skyrim, file indexing, file search and light desktops.
Issue 264 - Feature: Community Computing - Erstwhile scourge of the community Jonni Bidwell meets community hacker Jona Azizaj at the Open Source Summit to talk hacking and happiness (packets).
Issue 263 - Interview: Tux Racer - Dan Cauchy brings Jonni Bidwell up to speed on Automotive Grade Linux, coming soon to a car – or even a boat – near you!
Issue 262 - Feature: Protect your devices - It may be the end times out there but Jonni Bidwell will ensure your Linux boxes are equipped to weather the storm.
Issue 261 - Feature: Virtualise everything - Fed up with breaking Linux installs, and Linux installs breaking him, Jonni Bidwell looks to virtualisation to ease his very real woes.
Issue 261 - Interview: The Razor's Edge - More tales from Jonni Bidwell’s pilgrimage to the 2019 Open Source Summit – this time from virtualisation guru Erik Nordmark.
Issue 261 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Solus 4.1, OpenMandriva Lx 4.1
Issue 260 - Feature: Raspberry Pi projects - Sensing the coming of spring, Jonni Bidwell emerges from his state of semi-hibernation and outputs a feature full of glorious maker projects.
Issue 260 - Interview: When Linux won't do - Jonni Bidwell meets Kate Stewart, senior director of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation, to talk about Zephyr, licenses, garbage trucks and reindeer.
Issue 260 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Elementary OS 5.1, Mint 19.3 Cinnamon, BlackArch 2020.01
Issue 259 - Feature: Escape Windows 2020 - Jonni guides you to the land of Linux.
Issue 259 - Interview: Counting Kroahs - Bumbling misfit Jonni Bidwell meets kernel titan Greg Kroah-Hartman for an edifying conversation about all things Linux.
Issue 259 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Pop!_OS 19.10, Bodhi Linux 5.0, Rescatux 0.72
Issue 258 - Feature: Hacker Wars - we look into the Metasploit framework
Issue 258 - Interview: RISC-V Business - Jonni Bidwell is back on the conference circuit, eating snacks and mingling with elite hackers like Christina Quast
Issue 258 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Fedora 31, Kali Light 2019.3, MX Linux 19
Issue 257 - Interview: Over the edge - Dell Technologies’ Jason Shepherd joins Jonni Bidwell in a stylish-looking stairwell in Edinburgh to talk about a de facto standard for edge computing.
Issue 256 - Interview: Database renaissance man - DataStax’s softly spoken co-founder Jonathan Ellis has successfully made the transition from the cubicle to the corner office. Mayank Sharma grills him on databases.
Issue 256 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - NOTE: Condres OS has been discontinued.
Issue 255 - Interview: I dream of Gstreamer - Jonni Bidwell talks to Collabora’s Olivier Crête about everyone’s favourite open source multimedia framework.
Issue 255 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Mint 19.2 Cinnamon, Mint 19.2 MATE, Slax 9.9.1
Issue 253 - Interview: Do you CVE, what I CVE? - Wind River Systems’ David Reyna talks to Jonni Bidwell about keeping the embedded space safe – and also fixing robots on Mars.
Issue 253 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Tails 3.1.4.2, KDE neon 5.16, PCLinuxOS 6.2019
Issue 252 - Interview: Picture in a mainframe - Jonni Bidwell wants to know if he could install Linux on
the mainframe at Future Towers. The Open Mainframe
Project’s John Mertic has all the answers.
Issue 251 - Interview: Terminal velocity - Jonni Bidwell once again provokes readers by fraternising with a Microsoft employee, the ever-knowledgeable James Turnbull
Issue 250 - Interview: Hear me now - Jonni Bidwell takes a break from his frantic conference snacking schedule to interview audiophiles and gentlemen, 64 Studio - Daniel James and Chris Obbard.
Issue 250 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Solus 4.0, Sparky 5.7
Issue 250 - Tutorial: Get more from Steam Controllers and Steam VR -
Issue 249 - Feature: Voice controlled smart home - Microft and OpenHAB
Issue 249 - Interview: Human computer - Never one to turn down talking about high-powered programming over biscuits and coffee, Jonni Bidwell meets the multitalented Omoju Miller.
Issue 249 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Kali Linux 2019.1
Issue 248 - Feature: Life science - Jonni Bidwell, long suspected of being a robot, hears from Claire Janisch about the secrets and genius of nature.
Issue 247 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Mint 19.1 Cinnamon and Xfce
Issue 247 - Interview: Lull'd by soft Zephyr - Thea Aldrich assures Jonni Bidwell that with a well-designed operating system IoT might not end humanity after all.
Issue 246 - Coverdisc: DVD pages - Bodhi 5.0, Voyager 18.10 GE, Sparky Linux 4.9
Issue 242 - Interview: The Code Less Travelled - Jonni Bidwell had never talked to anyone who programmed BASIC for helicopters. Until he met Eleanor McHugh
Issue 241 - Feature: Hacker Secrets - Unlock Kali and Metasploit
Issue 238 - Interview: Civilisation runs on Linux - Jonni Bidwell always suspected Linux would save the world. Industry experts Yoshitake Kobayashi and Urs Gleim all but confirmed his hunch...
Issue 215 - Feature: Rise of the Distros - Linus released the Linux kernel 25 years ago, but the concept of a distribution did not come about until later. We trace the journey from a humble Usenet post to Canonical's Ubuntu.
Issue 212 - Tutorial: Docker on the Pi - It's everywhere, so why not on your Raspberry Pi.
Issue 212 - Coding Academy: Fuzz - The art of dynamic code analysis, where force-feeding your programs various flavours and shapes of junk data can make it much healthier.
Issue 205 - Coding Academy: Unity 3D native on Linux -
Issue 205 - Interview: Tammy Butow - onni Bidwell meets Digital
Ocean’s Tammy Butow to
talk skateboarding, punk rock
and life at the world’s second
largest hosting provider.
Issue 204 - Coding Academy: Glade - Use Glade and Python to code lovely GUIs.
Issue 204 - Interview: Alexis Rossi - Head of Archive.org
Issue 203 - Feature: Free Software at 30 - We look at 30 years of the Free Software Foundation
Issue 203 - Interview: John Sullivan - Head of the FSF
Issue 202 - Feature: Coding Academy - Learn to code!
Issue 201 - Feature: Windows Vs Linux - TLDR: Windows 10 you suck!
Issue 188 - Feature: Arch Linux: Your flexible friend - Jonni Bidwell enters through the narrow
portal that leads to the functional way.
Issue 188 - Coding Academy: Python: Build a multi-Pi cluster - Jonni Bidwell connects a bunch of Pis together in a cluster – affectionately
known as a Bramble – and harnesses their power to crack passwords.
Issue 188 - Coding Academy: Python: Code a Gimp plugin - Jonni Bidwell uses Python to add some extra features to the favourite open
source image-manipulation app, without even a word about Gimp masks.
Issue 187 - Feature: Run Windows apps on Linux - Jonni Bidwell sees double as he harnesses the
heady power of Wine to tap into Windows software.
Issue 187 - Feature: Set up a Secure VPS - Stay thy LAMP stack-installing hand a moment while
we give you a primer on VPS security.
Issue 187 - Coding Academy: Django: Build a custom CMS - You hate WordPress, Drupal hates you and everyone hates PHP. What can
you do? Jonni Bidwell has a suggestion that will help ease your CMS pain.
Issue 187 - Review: Red Star OS 3.0 - Comrades! You are running inferior operating systems. Jonni Bidwell
requires you to upgrade to glorious Red Star OS 3.0 immediately.
Issue 186 - Feature: Low resource applications - Feeling the bloat? Jonni Bidwell offers up a smorgasbord of
lightweight applications that won’t eat up all your memory.
Issue 186 - Feature: Package management - how does it work? - Other operating systems encourage you to download
and run unverified binaries, but Jonni Bidwell finds
this practice entirely odious – Linux does it better.
Issue 186 - Coding Academy: Python: Build a cannon - Learn some object-oriented Python and, just as importantly, blow more stuff
up as Jonni Bidwell continues his adventures with Minecraft:Pi Edition.
Issue 185 - Coding Academy: Python: Hack Minecraft Pi - Use Python on your Pi to merrily meddle with Minecraft.
Issue 185 - Coding Academy: Minecraft: Make a Pi tebuchet - Build your labour of love and then blow it sky high with pyrotechnic
Jonni Bidwell, a stash of TNT and an age-old siege machine.
Issue 184 - Coding Academy: Python: Make a Twitter client - Jonni Bidwell shows you how to do Twitter like a boss. A command-line
boss that accepts arguments and catches errors.