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Issue 300 (April 2023) - Best Open Source Apps

We celebrate the best in open source ever, the Linux kernel and wonder where we’d be without the free software movement. Discover our top picks for the best free software, what the oldest open source projects are and revel in our retro distro reviews!

PLUS: Recompile your kernel, switch to Mastodon, run Debian Hurd, email like it’s 1983, discover the best Hotpicks, code Pong, we test the best desktop distros, text effects in GIMP, start using websockets and loads more!

 Features

Answers

For our 300th issue, we rounded up some of the more common problems we’ve dealt with over the years, including dual booting, stalled boots, sharing desktops and more. (Neil Bothwick)
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Best open source ever

(Michael Reed)
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Fantastic Mr Firefox

(Nick Peers)
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Free our software

(Neil Mohr)
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 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

OpenShot, Rsync, Aria2, Claws Mail, Akregator, Konqueror, Pidgin, FlightGear, SuperTuxKart, Qemu and CPU-X. (Mayank Sharma)
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 Tutorials

Find

(Shashank Sharma)
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Mastodon

(Nick Peers)
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Debian Hurd

(Matt Holder)
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GIMP - text effects

(Karsten Gunther)
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Emacs emailing

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
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Master RPi.GPIO

(Les Pounder)
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Control your robot with Bluetooth

(Les Pounder)
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 Coding Academy

Create websocket services

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Coding Pong

(Matt Holder)
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APL after all these years

(Mike Bedford)
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 Reviews

Corel Linux 1.0

(Linux Format)
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

(Linux Format)
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SUSE Linux 6.3

(Linux Format)
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Ubuntu 5.04

(Linux Format)
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Linux Mandrake 7

(Linux Format)
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Waveshare Zero to Pi 3

(Les Pounder)
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Best desktop distro

Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, Slackware (Mayank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

LibreOffice leaps ahead; the latest KDE Plasma interface arrives; Debian 12 freeze begins; a non-GNU Linux is announced; plus Distro Watch and opinion columns. (Nate Drake)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by Brian Corteil, who’s happy to announce the return of CamJam. Plus, a callout to young makers to enter the Coolest Projects competition, and more. (Les Pounder)
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