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Issue 291 (August 2022) - Faster virtual machines

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We accelerate our virtual machines with GPU power, use Vagrant to manage and spin up many containers and open our Gnome Boxes full of distros! Linux is the perfect platform for top VM performance, we explore how you can get the most from open source virtualisation!

PLUS: The cool guys behind the Bodhi Linux project, Barrier the software cross-platform KVM, the best desktop Raspberry Pi OS options, we explain this Web 3.0 thing, back up with Clonezilla, emulate the IBM 5110, self-host Bitwarden, taking better screenshots and loads more!

 Features

Fast virtual machines

(Jonni Bidwell)
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World Web 3.0

Battle lines are being drawn up as technologies for a Web 3.0 are primed and loaded. Mats Tage Axelsson helps you prepare for a user-owned world. (Mats Tage Axelsson)
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Inside Bodhi Linux

Three humble developers of Bodhi Linux enlighten Jonni Bidwell on the ways of Zen and the art of distro maintenance. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Answers

Issues with VM display sizes, creating password-protected network shares, fantasy partition sizes and missing files, configuring your own function keys and shell scripts. (Neil Bothwick)
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Raspberry Pi distros

Raspberry Pi OS 2022-4-4, Twister OS 2.1.2, Ubuntu 22.04, Pop!_OS 21.10, Manjaro KDE 22.04 (Michael Reed)
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 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Universal Media Server, Beaker Browser, superProductivity, Safe Eyes, Mudlet, StackAndConquer, Bottles and Filmulator. (Mayank Sharma)
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 Tutorials

Terminal - Ventoy

(Shashank Sharma)
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Ksnip - better screen grabs

(Nick Peers)
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emulation - IBM 5110

(Mike Bedford)
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Sonic Pi - algorithmic music

(Mike Bedford)
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Clonezilla

(Michael Reed)
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LXF server - Bitwarden

(David Rutland)
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Barrier - software KVM

(Matt Holder)
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Custom LCD menus

(Les Pounder)
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Systemd and rc.local

(Sean Conway)
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 Coding Academy

Updating our GIT monitoring tool

(John Schwartzman)
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Unix processes and signals in Rust

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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 Reviews

GoDaddy

(Linux Format)
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OpenSUSE 15.4

(Mayank Sharma)
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Tails 5.1

(Mayank Sharma)
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OpenMediaVault 6

(Mayank Sharma)
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OnlyOffice 7.1

(Mayank Sharma)
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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

(Linux Format)
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Waveshare CM4-Nano B

(Les Pounder)
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 More

News: News

What’s with all the hate around snaps? Why is everyone loving the Framework laptop? Is that Linux getting installed in Turkey? And is Gnome landing on phones? (Matt Hanson)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by the robot crazy Kevin McAleer. The Turing 2 Pi cluster computing Kickstarter gets all the funding, learn about a new sensor-packed RP2040, and the Pi Education Research Centre to launch. (Les Pounder)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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