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Issue 231 (December 2017) - Customise Ubuntu 17.10

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Ubuntu 17.10 has landed with its all-new Gnome 3-based desktop! Follow our guide to customising the new desktop and run Ubuntu 17.10 with the custom DVD remix of eight desktops and get the most from this exciting new release. There’s loads more: If you hate Gnome we Roundup the best alternative desktops to use, help you build your own custom distro, delve into WiFi jamming, discover 10Gb Ethernet, implement our own openVPN, explore SSL certificates, dabble in classic BBC Basic and more!

 Features

Customise Ubuntu 17.10

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Build your own Distro

(Nate Drake)
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Interview: The FOSS

We talk to Martin Woodward at Microsoft's UK HQ. (Jonni Bidwell)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Ubuntu 17.10, Lubuntu 17.10 32-bit, Q4OS 2.4 (Neil Bothwick)
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Hotpicks

Storyboarder, Borg, Calibre, Gnome Commander, MConnect, Geary, Zrandr, Glances, Klavaro, BeFive, Smartball, ChickenPeppa. (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Node-RED using the GPIO

(Les Pounder)
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Wi-Fi jamming

(Nate Drake)
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Terminal: pipes

(John Knight)
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LibreOffice Calc

(Bob Moss)
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Upgrade to 10GB Ethernet

(Tim Armstrong)
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Administeria

Solaris, eBPF (Valentin Sinitsyn)
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HTTPS - secure it with certificates

(Sean Conway)
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OpenVPN

(Nick Peers)
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 Coding Academy

BBC BASIC V

(Nate Drake)
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Kotlin part 3

Code system tools (Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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 Reviews

MotoZero

(Les Pounder)
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Tacoma

(Linux Format)
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Google Pixel 2

(Linux Format)
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Intel Core i5 8400

(Linux Format)
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Intel Core i9 7960X

(Linux Format)
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Knoppix 8.1

(Shashank Sharma)
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Korora 26 Gnome

(Shashank Sharma)
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Desktop environments

Budgie, Deepin, Enlightenment, LXQt, Pantheon (Shashank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

Krack, Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04, Librem 5 funded, new kernel licence, FOSS on the Samsung Galaxy (Matt Hanson)
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News: Pi news

Rachel Lancaster, Pi in West Africa update, Braille Box, JAMs! (Les Pounder)
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