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Issue 252 (August 2019) - Sort out your storage

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Sort out your Linux storage: protect your files, boost speeds, monitor drives and add RAID today! We explore how you can configure your drives for better, more secure storage. With drive prices never so low, now is the ideal time to build that mirror or RAID6 you’ve always promised yourself. So let us guide you through the jungle of storage types, file systems, configurations and options to get the perfect solution or at least something that works for you.

 Features

Storage perfection

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Pop!_OS in depth

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Answers

Big files small space, your own blog, grep, mount point moving, clear your /tmp, pip (Neil Bothwick)
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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. (Jonni Bidwell)
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 Coverdisc

DVD Pages

Pop!_OS 19.04, OpenMediaVault 4.1.22, Peppermint 10 (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Hyper, DiffPDF, KWin-lowlatency, LanguageTool, Kepka, Password Safe, Devede NG, SuperTuxKart, OpenPatrician, Stacer, WallGen (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

McFly

(Shashank Sharma)
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Sombrero

(Linux Format)
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Explorer Hat Pro analogue

(Les Pounder)
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Fractals - part two

(Mike Bedford)
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Calibre

(Nick Peers)
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FFMpeg Gifs

(Dan Dart)
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Raspivid - streaming to YouTube

(Christian Cawley)
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Humidity monitoring with I2C bus

(Tam Hanna)
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 Coding Academy

apache Kafka

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Parsing XML file in Go and Python

(John Schwartzman)
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Hack a Minecraft GUI

(Calvin Robinson)
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 Reviews

HexagonOS 1.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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OpenSUSE 15.1

(Mayank Sharma)
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Emmabuntüs DE 2 1.04

(Mayank Sharma)
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Robolinux 10.5

(Mayank Sharma)
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MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G

(Linux Format)
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4tronix PiBug 2WD

(Les Pounder)
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Lightweight desktops

Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE), Lumina, LXQt, Moksha Desktop, Openbox (Shashank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

Google annoys everyone, South Korea considers Linux, Unity engine goes official, HiddenWasp malware, Boom RISC-V (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel watch

Martin Schwidefsky, Kernel 5.2rc5 (Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Penguin Watch, Traffic modelling (Les Pounder)
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