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Issue 289 (June 2022) - Bulletproof Ubuntu 22.04

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Discover Ubuntu 22.04 LTS codenamed the Jammy Jellyfish! We unpack all the crucial new features (Gnome 42 and Wayland) and updates, how to get it installed and configured to perfection.

PLUS: get packing with Open Build Services, tweak Linux on the Valve Steam Deck, clean up your hard drives, read ebooks in the terminal, get more from Wine, build a custom email server, discover new FOSS app stores and loads more!

 Features

Bullet-proof Ubuntu 20.04

Cast aside your old OS and begin life anew with Ubuntu 22.04, says Jonni Bidwell. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Get packing

Are you keen to give back to the FOSS community, but don’t know where to start? Mike McCallister shows you one way to do a good deed. (Mike McCallister)
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All hands on deck!

Jonni Bidwell pries a Steam Deck from PC Gamer’s cold anthropomorphised hands and gets his game on. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Answers

Backing up and syncing Keepass, trying to backup PhotoRec files, controlling screen mirroring to a TV, sorting out-of-tree module support, plus a look at the tmpfs system. (Neil Bothwick)
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 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

FireDM, Mplayer, Rnote, Mailspring, Airsane, Fbcat, Topgrade, Superdux, Winterapples, Casper-fs and Zplora. (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Terminal - ebooks

(Shashank Sharma)
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Czkawka

Clean your drives (Nick Peers)
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Emulation - Amstrad PCW

(Les Pounder)
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Home Automation

Explore NFC tags, energy monitoring and the Wireguard VPN (Matt Holder)
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Wine

(Michael Reed)
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LXF server - email

(David Rutland)
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Multipass

(Stuart Burns)
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Python based reaction games

(Les Pounder)
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 Coding Academy

File system tools in Rust

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Updating old Blackjack code

(Andrew Smith)
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 Reviews

Seagate EXOS 20TB HDD

(Linux Format)
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HostGator

(Shashank Sharma)
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Linux Mint Debian Edition 5

(Mayank Sharma)
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Fedora 36

(Shashank Sharma)
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Ubuntu22.04 LTS

(Mayank Sharma)
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A Musical Story

(Linux Format)
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The Last Cube

(Linux Format)
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Armbian 22.02 Jammy XFCE

(Les Pounder)
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Arducam 16MP camera Module

(Les Pounder)
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Open source app stores

AppCenter, Bauh, Discover, Gnome Software, HaikuDepot (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 More

News: News

How the open source community is reacting to the Ukraine war, a new RISC-V computer, real Apple M1 support, a rolling Ubuntu release and Fedora is to be 32-bit no more. (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by Linux Format’s own Matthew Holder. We take a look at the latest moves to manage the Pi supply, a new arm is in town but this one isn’t a processor, and Arduino takes on the Pi Compute. (Les Pounder)
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