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Issue 203 (October 2015) - Best Distro 2015

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Discover what is the best distro of 2015 with the definitive guide to every key Linux distro, which will you be installing next? In the Linux Format test-lab of terror are the best desktop, server, rolling release and lightweight distros.

Features

Best Distro 2015

(Mayank Sharma)
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Free Software at 30

We look at 30 years of the Free Software Foundation (Jonni Bidwell)
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The Future of Software Freedom

We look at the threats to a free future. (Neil Mohr)
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Sysadmin

Kali Linux 2.0 (Jolyon Brown)
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Interview: John Sullivan

Head of the FSF (Jonni Bidwell)
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Coverdisc

DVD pages

Mint 17.2 and OpenSUSE 13.2 (Neil Bothwick)
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Hotpicks

(Alexander Tolstoy)
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Tutorials

Build your first robot

(Les Pounder)
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Kodi 14: Set up a media centre

(Mayank Sharma)
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Syncthing

(Neil Bothwick)
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Change your desktop

(Nick Peers)
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Network troubleshooting

Netstat, netcat and lsof (Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Master sFTP

(Afnan Rehman)
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Coding Academy

Elixir

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Sysadmin TCP

(Chris Brown)
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Reviews

Display-O-Tron HAT

(Les Pounder)
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Dirt Showdown

(Linux Format)
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GoG vs Steam

Gaming services. (Mayank Sharma)
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Intel Core i7 6700K

Intel Skylake is here (Jeremy Laird)
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Libre Office 5.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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OnePlus 2 Android phone

(Linux Format)
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Filesystems

Btrfs, ext4 and more (Alexander Tolstoy)
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More

News: Pi news

(Linux Format)
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News: News

(Matt Hanson)
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