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Issue 284 (January 2022) - Pi-powered media centre

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Let us entertain you with an all-powerful Pi-powered media centre! Snuggle up in front of the big screen and enjoy LibreELEC with Kodi 19 inside pumping out all your 4K HDR streaming fun with music, photos and gaming libraries and a bit of adaptive LED lighting too.

PLUS: better video encoders, build a Pi-based NAS, run a Pi Zero 2 W social server, create a Linux music studio, get better geolocation, switch to Btrfs, run the 8-bit Oric-1, discover why Linux powers all the top supercomputers and loads more!

 Features

Build a Pi-powered media centre

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Supercomputing Linux

(Mike Bedford)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Top of the FOSS

Mail-in-a-box (Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

Find out where your drive space is going, checking on your not-so-bad blocks, backing up a phone to a Pi, disable a touchpad and understanding Dmesg. (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Audacity, Pscircle, Edotool, Quickemu, USB Imager, GtkStressTesting, Key Mapper, Sonic Robo Blast 2, NumptyPhysics, Js-dos and Larynx. (Alexander Tolstoy)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Terminal - Croc

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Stacer - system management

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Emulation - Oric-1

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Qtractor - build a music studio

(Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

LXF Server - Fresh RSS

(David Rutland)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

BTRFS - changing filesystem

(Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Scratch multi-level games

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Build a Pi-powered NAS

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Run a Pi Zero 2 Fediverse server

(David Rutland)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Game of Life

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Accurate IP-based geolocation

(Tim Armstrong)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

Intel Core i9 12900K

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Waterfox F4.0.3

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Edge for Linux

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

NuTyx 21.10

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Ltd Os 0.9

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-20

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Black Mesa

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pop!_OS Pi edition

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Adafruit Cyberdeck Bonnet

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Video conversion tools

Avidemux 2.7.6 Curlew 0.2.5 1.4.2 Shutter Encoder 3.0.16 HandBrake VLC 3.0.16 (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 More

News: News

Man uses Linux and the world loses its mind at system76, Canonical bring Ubuntu to M1 Macs, GitLab suffers serious security issue, Valve recommends Manjaro KDE for Steam Deck and Zink is finally good. (Matt Hanson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Kernel Watch

(Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Introduced by Brian Corteil. Android 12, Arducam camera and Pi 4 overclock. (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.