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Build a Linux Fortress! Linux is pretty secure, but ever-vigilant Linux Format has studied the threatscape and recommends applying reinforcements… Follow our guide to building a better, securer Linux install from sensible human behaviour, secure firewall ports to mastering encryption, SSH keys, PGP email and more!
PLUS: We monitor our GPUs and CPUs, code a Space Invaders clone, emulate the classic 486 PC, enable GPIO on a desktop PC, test the best window managers, improve your photographs and build a Pi Pico voltmeter.
Features
Fortress Linux
Linux is pretty secure, but Jonni Bidwell has studied the threatscape and recommends applying reinforcements. (Jonni Bidwell) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Sensors and sensibility
Remembering a past life where he gazed
on dials and Galilean thermometers,
Jonni Bidwell examines Linux’s system monitoring offerings. (Jonni Bidwell) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Answers
How to find your files faster, how to rename a set of PDF with silly names, understanding Linux drive names, fixing a Mint that takes forever to shut down and going paperless.
(Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got time to give tours of multi-million pound grand palaces, he’s too busy touring hot FOSS, including: CudaText, Reco, Pingnoo, Farge, Tty-share, Png2svg, Deskreen, Super Bombinhas, Pomodoro, Pdfarranger and Visum.
(Alexander Tolstoy) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Possibly the least well-known components of the Linux desktop, Shashank Sharma knows a few window managers that can help you broaden your Linux experience. (Shashank Sharma) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
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News: News
There’s a lot going on at LibreOffice! There’s a lot going on at the Red Hat office! There’s lots going on at the Canonical office as Ubuntu 21.04 heats up! (Matt Hanson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
News: Pi news
Caroline Keep column. Something is rotten in the state of Pi-land, cry many users as a Microsoft repro is added without consent. Shocking! (Les Pounder) Available as a PDF to subscribers.