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Issue 295 (November 2022) - Retro emulation

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Build the ultimate retro emulation gaming experience, relive your Amiga Basic days and explore the huge open source emulation world! Discover all the software to enjoy the classic computer days of the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga and more. We’ll even run a mainframe for fun.

PLUS: Search your PC faster, monitor your bandwidth, perfect your 3D prints, full-disk encryption, the best Lightweight distros tested, we dive into Kubernetes and loads more!

 Features

Retro emulation

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Linux in Windows

(Matt Holder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

It's great when you're K8s

Kubernetes explained by Alex Jones (Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

Sorting out icons on removable drives, worrying about BIOS errors, limiting printer access, sorting seven privileges, installing to a USB drive and CUPS explained. (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Sigil, Ventoy, Gopass, Videomass, Castero, Borg, Glances, AWKTC, Battle for Wesnoth, Rymdport and dupeGuru. (Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Using the GPIO with Go

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Terminal - bandwidth

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Fsearch - speed search

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

OnlyOffice - moodle

(Kseniya)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

IcarOS - Amiga OS

(Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Cura - 3D printing

(Alastair Jennings)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

LUKS - full disk encryption

(Stuart Burns)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Emulation - Run a mainframe

(Mike Bedford)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Monitor your CPU with eBPF

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Website Python scraping

(Matt Holder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

File selecting and printing dialogs

(Karsten Gunther)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

Snapmaker 2.0 3-in-1

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

RebornOS 10.2021

(David Rutland)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Openmamba 3.6.21

(David Rutland)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

MX Linux 21.2.1.KDE

(David Rutland)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Salix 15.0

(David Rutland)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Two Point Campus

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Waveshare PoE USB hub

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Khadas VIM4

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Lightweight distros

EasyOS 4.3 Linux Lite 6.0 Lubuntu 22.04 Absolute Linux 15.0 4QOS 4.10 Gemini (Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 More

News: News

We look back on the life of Peter Eckersley, Godot 4 Beta is out, Google launches a new bug bounty, there’s a new Ubuntu Store coming and a fancy Framework laptop! (Matt Hanson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Introduced by Allie Katz who describes their amazing projects. Astro Pi Mission Zero blasts off, and watch the Pi Cast! (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.