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Issue 228 (September 2017) - Learn more with Linux

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We’re going back to school and boosting your learning with Linux, open source and low-cost single-board PCs, powering your own and children’s education. We’ll equip a laptop with educational tools, run cool hardware projects and get you started as an ace coder. So, if you’re just interested in expanding your mind, want to help your children, or get involved in a Code Club, this issue is the perfect place to start.

But we know study, study, study makes Jane a dull girl, so we’re also looking at the exciting world of mobile phones and what the heck happened to the open source mobile OS dream? How did Canonical mess up so badly with the Ubuntu Phone, and what projects are picking up its mantle?

We have a tutorial on installing the Cyanogenmod replacement Lineage OS, too. Roundup looks at all the file sync tools you need to keep your documents consistent everywhere and everywhen. While our tutorials cover using the Terminal, Vagrant automation, music in the Linux Multimedia Suite, recovery with Scalpel, podcast recording in Audacity and even more!

 Features

Back to school

Open source software in education and on your laptop (Jonni Bidwell)
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Back to school

The hardware, code and projects to ace classes. (Les Pounder)
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The open source phone future

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Interview: Convergence Crash

Simon Raffeiner chronicles his personal journey through the rise and fall of the ‘Ubuntu for mobile devices’ project. (Linux Format)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Fedora 26, Fedora LXQt 26, Mageia XFCE 6.0 (Neil Bothwick)
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Hotpicks

Shotcut, Makehuman, Rapid Photo Downloader, Wine, Qt5ct, Parlatype, PulseEffects, Doublespeak, Tilix, Stunt Rally, Dead Ascent (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Pi Zero print server

(Les Pounder)
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Firewalls with Ufw

(Nate Drake)
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Chain gang

Using chaining (Nick Peers)
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Linux Multimedia Suite

(Shashank Sharma)
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Scalpel file rescue

(Nate Drake)
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Vagrant VMs made easy

(Bob Moss)
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Lineage OS

(Alex Cox)
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Audacity creating podcasts

(Adam Oxford)
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 Coding Academy

The LXF Puzzle

Low- memory sorting (Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Serverless framework

(Dan Frost)
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 Reviews

Thunderborg

(Les Pounder)
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Hollow Knight

(Linux Format)
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Synology DiskStation DS1817

(Linux Format)
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Fedora 26

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Mint 18.2 Cinnamon

(Shashank Sharma)
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SwagArch 2017.07

(Shashank Sharma)
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File sync services

(Mayank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

Next-gen comms, Vulcan, GnuGP, PS3 emulator, FireFox 55. (Matt Hanson)
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News: Pi news

Andy Warburton, Arduino, GPIO Zero, Pimoroni (Linux Format)
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