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Issue 283 (December 2021) - Ubuntu VS Fedora

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Fedora VS Ubuntu which has the strongest opening game? We pit these grandmasters head to head and find out.With Ubuntu 21.10 and Fedoras 35 released we compare both distro's games to see which is playing stronger and how the other can improve. PLUS: Filesystems tested, the trouble with licences, build AutoGrade Linux apps, code a REST client, build a Ghost blog, run your own Babbage Analytical Engine, edit PDFs better, install Chrome OS and more!

 Features

Ubuntu VS Fedora

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Assemble AutoGrade Linux apps

Mats Tage Axelsson guides you through how open source frameworks and Linux can help you navigate the jungle of getting safely to your coding destination. (Mats Tage Axelsson)
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Licence to Bill

Jonni Bidwell’s studied licence minutiae and fears big business threatens the future of copyleft and software freedom. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Answers

How you compile projects from source again, how to get locked out from Mint 20, sorting grey scans out, sorting out UEFI entries and sorting out mail servers. (Neil Bothwick)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Ubuntu 21.10 and Devuan 4.0 (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got time to take a week off work and do nothing, he’s too busy testing FOSS like: Glyphtracer, OnlyOffice, Open Video Downloader, gThumb, JPEG XL, Annotator, Monitor, SpaceCadet, A/B Street, Metadata Cleaner and Fake Background. (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Terminal - Castero

Shashank Sharma has tried all the podcast clients and has finally found one of the best. (Shashank Sharma)
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Emulation - Babbage Engines

(Mike Bedford)
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Okular - Editing PDF files

(Nick Peers)
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Chrome OS - Neverware

(Matt Holder)
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LXF server - Ghost server

(David Rutland)
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Advanced Scratch GPIO

(Les Pounder)
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GPIO electronic interfacing

(Mike Bedford)
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Multiple SPI screens

(Sean Conway)
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 Coding Academy

Multiplayer Galaxians

(Andrew Smith)
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Develop a RESTful client in Go

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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 Reviews

InMotion Hosting

(Linux Format)
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Atari Video Computer System

(Linux Format)
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Whonix 16

(Mayank Sharma)
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Devuan 4.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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Zeophix 3.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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Ubuntu 21.10 VS Fedora 35

(Mayank Sharma)
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

(Les Pounder)
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Filesystems

Reiser5, Ext4, Btrfs, XFS, NTFS (Michael Reed)
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 More

News: News

Google explains its kernel plans with Project Icebreaker, the Software Freedom Conservancy explains things to Vizio, the PinePhone Pro is explained and Fedora explains SilverBlue to us. (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel Watch

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by Michael Horn. The first price hikes for the Raspberry Pi. (Les Pounder)
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