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Issue 303 (July 2023) - Lightspeed Ubuntu

Run Ubuntu at lightspeed with our guide to taking the world’s most popular distro to the next level by stripping it back, running light desktops, dumping Snaps and customising the server build to your own needs.

PLUS: Turbocharge your search, conquer SUSE ALP, the best coding languages tested, get more from Pi camera, get started with PodMan, try Linux on Microsoft Azure, relive your Amiga tracker music days and loads more!

 Features

Lightspeed Ubuntu

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Podman

(Aaron Peters)
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Climb SUSE ALP

(Matt Holder)
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Answers

Our resident Linux brainiac Neil Bothwick cleverly solves conundrums involving missing drivers, creating caches, setting up a headless Raspberry Pi, the magic of the SysReq key and more. (Neil Bothwick)
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 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

SonoBus, Opal, GSConnect, Nativefier, Desktop Files Creator, SaveDesktop, TagSpaces, War Thunder, Osu!, NightPDF and HomeBrew. (Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Terminal to-do lists

(Shashank Sharma)
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Recoll desktop search

(Nick Peers)
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LISP

(Mike Bedford)
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AsciiDoc

(Karsten Gunther)
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Azure Linux

(Stuart Burns)
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Milkytracker

(Michael Reed)
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Python virtual environments

(Les Pounder)
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Pi camera API

(Tam Hanna)
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 Coding Academy

Mazes in C

(David Bolton)
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Spice up Python apps

(Matt Holder)
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 Reviews

Adata Legend 960 Max

(Linux Format)
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Nvidia RTX 4070

(Dave James)
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Tiny Core 4.0

(Nate Drake)
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Lubuntu 23.04

(Nate Drake)
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MidnightBSD 3.0

(Nate Drake)
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Ubuntu 23.04 Beta Pi

(Les Pounder)
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Creality CR-M4

(Les Pounder)
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Programming languages

Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust, C++ (Michael Reed)
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 More

News: News

The future looks bright for open source digital artists; we report on Red Hat’s HDR Hackfest; KeepassXC passes a full security audit; the kernel is hen-pecked; plus lots more news from the open source orbit. (Nate Drake)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by Les Pounder, who celebrates the return of the Cambridge Raspberry Jam, plus the Pi Foundation outlines its approach to teaching AI. (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.