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Issue 257 (December 2019) - Lighter and faster Linux

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Ubuntu 19.10 is out and we’re going to rip it apart to make it lighter, faster, quicker to start and generally boost it to the next level. We explore how you can strip back Ubuntu and other distros to make them super lightweight or deploy dedicated options.

PLUS: HDR photography in GIMP, OpenShot video editing, customising your boot menu, recover lost data, cool your Raspberry Pi, fix the Raspbian Bluetooth stack, retro gaming and loads more!

 Features

Lighter & faster Linux

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Recover your files

(Mayank Sharma)
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Answers

Dumping ANSI from your logs, uploading photos from your Pi, Slax on USB, using tail and &&. (Neil Bothwick)
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Interview: Over the edge

Dell Technologies’ Jason Shepherd joins Jonni Bidwell in a stylish-looking stairwell in Edinburgh to talk about a de facto standard for edge computing. (Jonni Bidwell)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Ubuntu 19.10, Xubuntu 19.10, NixOS 19.09 (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Paperwork, WebTorrent Desktop, Exaile, Npkill, Sampler, App Outlet, Fre:ac, Connectagram, Lunar Lander, Homebrew, Kitty (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Node-Red Twitter monitor

(Les Pounder)
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Raspbian Bluetooth stack

(Sean Conway)
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Cool your Pi 4

(Les Pounder)
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WTF! console

(Shashank Sharma)
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OpenShot video editing

(Nick Peers)
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GIMP HDR photography

(Mike Bedford)
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GRUN control your boot

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
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Retropie for classic gaming

(Nate Drake)
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 Coding Academy

Hacking Minecraft games

(Calvin Robinson)
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Building Proton apps

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
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 Reviews

Lakka

Pi-based Retro gaming distro (Les Pounder)
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Acer Chromebook 715

(Jeremy Laird)
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Debian 10 "Buster"

(Neil Bothwick)
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AntiX 19

(Neil Bothwick)
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PCLinuxOS 2019.09

(Neil Bothwick)
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Media Streaming servers

(Shashank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

Gnome goes to patent war, Samsung take Dex away, PS4 streaming comes to Linux, AMD sponsors Blender and AV1 is good. (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel News

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Ubuntu 19.10 bugs, how Pi cases were designed and Astro Pi awards (Les Pounder)
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