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Issue 260 (March 2020) - Raspberry Pi Projects

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Projects, projects, projects! From the Raspberry Pi to Linux to Arduino we’re going to keep you busy in 2020 with only the best maker projects to try! We’re running a maker special with our favourite builds from running a NAS to a fully functional robot builds.

Plus an extra jammed tutorial section including terminal music control, password management, Joplin notes, beginner distros, config control, Docker basics, project management, writing calendars, creating a git monitor and loads more.

Features

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. (Jonni Bidwell)

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Exploding firewalls

(Jonni Bidwell)

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Answers

Swap use, No keyboard, limit root, missing modems, random crashes, Xfce to Cinnamon. (Neil Bothwick)

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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. (Jonni Bidwell)

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Coverdisc

DVD pages

Elementary OS 5.1, Mint 19.3 Cinnamon, BlackArch 2020.01 (Jonni Bidwell)

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Hotpicks

Trinity, MusicBrain, Picard, Veusz, Reiser5, QtHashSum, NodeTube, Tangram, Bonsai, Qtfm Marble Marcher, The House (Alexander Tolstoy)

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Tutorials

Docker

Nextcloud and Docker containers made easy (Chris Notley)

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Joplin

Open source notes (Linux Format)

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Dot files

Find and clean up your config files (Mats Tage Axelsson)

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Emacs

Project management (Aaron Peters)

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Bitwarden

Password management (Nick Peers)

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Terminal

Musikcube streaming (Shashank Sharma)

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Cubic SDR

Receive and process global radio (Sean Conway)

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Coding Academy

Python

Build a Git monitor (John Schwartzman)

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R calendars

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)

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Reviews

Beginner distros

Deepin, Elementary OS, Manjaro, Solus Zorin OS (Shashank Sharma)

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News: News

Internet security, Mozilla troubles, ZFS dislike, Nvidia GPUs, Darktable development, Evernote on Linux? (Matt Hanson)

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News: Kernel Watch

Kernel 5.5 details, OpenStack issues (Jon Masters)

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