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Issue 246 (February 2019) - The Ultimate Linux Toolkit

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Tuck in to our delicious smorgasbord of open source software treats! We reveal the top 100 tools in our Ultimate Linux Toolkit, as we run a Hotpicks Special. Our experts have hand-picked the best trending tools, helping you discover handy tools that are essential in every aspect of your Linux life.

If that’s not enough to keep you busy, we Roundup Arch distros, optimise our Pi projects, build a jukebox, explore Scribus for covers, email from Emacs, create a bootable USB drive, build static websites with Middleman and loads more!

 Features

The ultimate Linux toolkit

The top 100 tools. (Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Astronomy

(Mike Bedford)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

Missing Windows, Midnight Commander, missing netowrks, Mint 17 background, Ubuntu 18.10 suspend, PDF javascript (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Container Insights

Jorge Salamero (Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Bodhi 5.0, Voyager 18.10 GE, Sparky Linux 4.9 (Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Pi Dropbox

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Optimise Raspbian

(Christian Cawley)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Terminal: file access with ACL

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Scribus

better posters and covers - part 2 (John Knight)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Emacs

Email and video - part 2 (Mats Tage Axelsson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

GRUBby USB drives

(John Lane)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

lwd and Netplan

(Valentin Sinitsyn)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Silverjuke

Build a jukebox (Jamie Munro)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Rhythmbox

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

MiddleMan

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Julia

(Lee Philips)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

Picade X HAT

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

AMD Athlon 200GE

(Linux Format)
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Sailfish X

also Sailfish 3 (Alexander Tolstoy)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

GhostBSD 18.10

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Nitrux 1.1.1

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Total war: Warhammer 2

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Arch based distros

Antergos, ArchLabs, KaOS, Manjaro, Netrunner (Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 More

News: News

Edge HTML dead, PhysX open sourced, RISC-V SoC, Necuno mobile project (Matt Hanson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Kernel news

Linux kernel 5.0 (Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Alan Odonohoe, Escape Room, SteamLink, Code Club book (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.