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Issue 286 (March 2022) - Secure your VPN

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Secure your VPN and truly hide your online tracks! We explore how VPNs work, how you can run your own using WireGuard, why you shouldn’t blindly trust commercial VPNs, what the Mozilla VPN is all about and just where Tor fits into all of this.

PLUS: The Raspberry Pi turns 10, boot multiple distros off your USB sticks, get the best text editor, build Linux from Scratch, build dynamic timelines, emulate the MSX, get protected with hardware keys loads and more!

 Features

Secure your VPN

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Linux from Scratch

(Aaron Peters)
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Answers

Synching your music, checking a drive has been wiped, creating a simple reminder, moving an old install to a new machine, sorting your UUIDs and all about initramfs. (Neil Bothwick)
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Raspberry Pi turns 10

(Neil Mohr)
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Perl turns 34

(Jonni Bidwell)
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 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

System Monitor Center, Tesseract, Libtree, Video trimmer, Ntfy, Rusty Aquarium, Caravaggio, FishFight, AssaultCube, Kage Studio, System G (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Terminal - pa

Password manager (Shashank Sharma)
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Timeline

(Nick Peers)
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Emulation - MSX

(Les Pounder)
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Ventoy

Multi-boot USB devices (Matt Holder)
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Tubikey

hardware key protection (Stuart Burns)
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LXF server - recipe manager

(David Rutland)
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Libreoffice - ebook

(Michael Reed)
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Run multiple hats

(Les Pounder)
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 Coding Academy

Build 3D gaming world in Python

(Andrew Smith)
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Integrate DropBox into your code

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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 Reviews

Intel NUC 11 Extreme PC

(Linux Format)
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Kingston XS2000 External SSD

(Linux Format)
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Nepture 7.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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Slackel 7.5

(Mayank Sharma)
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Siduction 2021.3.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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Pop!_OS 21.10

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Oxygen not Included

(Linux Format)
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Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye

(Les Pounder)
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 More

News: News

2022 promises much for Linux gaming, TikTok in GPL licence trouble, Linux boosts Intel CPUs, Mint teams up with Mozilla, ransomware targets Linux and a.out is out. (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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