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Issue 285 (February 2022) - Combat malware

Combat malware the only way we know how with a Tux attack! We investigate malware attack vectors, how ransomware infiltrates systems and how we’ve gone from floppy disk boot viruses to drive-by web browser exploits, so you can better protect your systems.

PLUS: the GNU-loving Guix System, store passwords securely with Swifty, revive the Commodore VIC-20, create rock music effects, record studio-quality audio, test the best backup tools, multi-boot your Pis and more!

 Features

Combat Malware

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Owncloud

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Gnu Guix System

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
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Answers

Sharing photos from phones, LibreOffice and Excel spreadsheets, purging KDE from an install, installing a Wi-Fi driver, remote screen sharing and shell commands. (Neil Bothwick)
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 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Fsearch, Mapscii, Telegrand, Girouette, Sysmontask, Luna Paint, AppImageLauncher, Plop, Let’s Surf, QOI and Xplorer. (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Terminal - Vizex

(Shashank Sharma)
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Swifty password manager

(Nick Peers)
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Emulation - Commodore VIC-20

(Les Pounder)
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GNU Radio - rock music effects

(Mike Bedford)
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Virtual network lab

(Stuart Burns)
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LXF Server - Fediverse

(David Rutland)
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QTractor - recording HQ audio

(Michael Reed)
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Build a temperature display

(Les Pounder)
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Multiboot your Pi

(Christian Cawley)
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 Coding Academy

Build web services with Gin

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Reducing gaming lag

Tim Armstrong shows off Latency.GG – an open-source global internet measurement platform aiming to reduce lag and jitter in multiplayer games. (Tim Armstrong)
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 Reviews

Easyspace web hosting

(Mike Williams)
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Intel Core i5 12600K

(Linux Format)
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Endless OS 4.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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4MLinux 38.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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Calculate Linux 22 KDE

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Stellaris

(Linux Format)
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Pimoroni Display HAT Mini

(Les Pounder)
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GUI backup tools

Deja Dup 42.8, BackupPV 4.4, Vorta 0.7.5, Grsync 1.3.0, Back in Time 1.2.1 (Michael Reed)
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 More

News: News

Germany is trying to switch to open source again and the EU wants to embrace public code, the Linux community wants to help Linus, Blender 3.0 details, Proton supports DLSS games and new Firefox sand boxing. (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel Watch

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by Les Pounder. Raspberry Pi Trading eyes up floating on the stock market, there’s a new Legacy OS in town and the Sol-20 lives again! (Les Pounder)
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