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Try the latest release of Ubuntu 21.04 and learn to whoop for Wayland! Take the next-gen display protocol for a spin and see what the future promises. The latest build of Ubuntu is on the LXFDVD and we have a full guide to its new features and getting to grips with Wayland on your graphics hardware.
PLUS: USB guard, Jellyfin media server, Blender physics, emulate the Dragon 32, create Magic Eye photos, handle time series data with Python, get a better 3D modeller, relive Prestel days and loads more!
Features
Get into Ubuntu
The latest version of Ubuntu has landed, and Nick Peers is on hand to show you how to install it and find out what’s new. (Nick Peers) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Prestel
Before super-fast broadband, before Web 2.0, before Web 1.0 there was Prestel. Mike Bedford reveals the online data service that pre-dated the WWW by more than a decade. (Mike Bedford) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Linux Formats new $HOME
Jonni Bidwell has one month to save Linux Format’s web presence. He claims that he didn’t sign up for this. Fate has other ideas… (Jonni Bidwell) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Answers
Piping DVD streams over a network, VPN configuration, mounting your drives each boot, building code with Python, Android transfers and looking into dd. (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Shortwave, Cosmic, Haruna, Vizex, eBPFSnitch, Evilpixie, Nethogs-Qt, Kitchen Tales, zFRAG, Optimizt and SingleFileZ. (Alexander Tolstoy) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
We often find Management going around in circles, so when Evan Lahti introduced this “micro RPG” they were left all in a spin! (Linux Format) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
There are shenanigans afoot with some kernel commits and people are not happy! Google gets told to FLoC off, a million kernel commits, Apple M1 GPU driver progress, a new Spectre issue arises and more chess!
(Matt Hanson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
News: Pi news
The Compute Module 4 gets released in a 4K signage card from NEC, a novel way to add more GPIOs to a Pi 4 and the Wi-Fi
add-on that’s coming for the Pi Pico. (Les Pounder) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
