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Issue 309 (December 2023) - Manage your apps

Blast off with Podman! Join the Pod and manage your apps effortlessly. We dive into the new container tech that’s sweeping the open source world and replacing Docker as the faster and easiest way to have a dependency-free app life. PLUS: build a Pi-controlled robot arm, AI for admins, code a Python web scraper, make Linux printing easy again, build the ultimate Amiga PC, tweak your kernel scheduler, we test Raspberry Pi 5 killers and loads more!

 Features

Manage your apps

Podman (David Rutland)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Entropy isn’t what it used to be

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Wordpress Vs Wix

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

answering queries about Rsync, RAID, GRUB, data destruction, Baloo and more. (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Administeria

Stuart Burns welcomes the use of AI but urges caution when providing it with data and trusting what it produces. (Stuart Burns)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Pika Backup, AionTask, Planify, Nyrna, Inspector, Imgp, NewsFlash, RufasSlider, Heroic, Tagger and Monophony. (Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Terminal - calcurse

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

CUPS

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Wordpress part 2

(Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Kernel scheduler

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Amikit Amiga emulation

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Create a Pico USB camera trigger

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Control a robotic arm

(Matt Holder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Scrape the web with Python

(David Bolton)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Smart Home data processing

(Matt Holder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

Addlink A93 4TB SSD

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Intel Arc A580

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Tails 5.18

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

SpiralLinux 12.231008

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pisi Linux 2.3.4

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Dual-fan heatsink

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Creality Ender 3 V3 SE

(Denise Bertacchi)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

RP2040 Matrix

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

AnkerMake M5C

(Denise Bertacchi)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Mozilla VPN

(Mike Williams)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

CDNetworks CDN Pro

(Mike Williams)
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Pi 5 killers

Pi 5, Orange Pi 3, Udoo Vision, Rock 5B, Asus Tinker Board R2 (Tam Hanna)
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 More

News: News

FOSS collaboration hit by tech embargo; AI power use; KDE 6 arrives on desktops; Linux boosts Cyberpunk 2077 frame rate; beta release of Nvidia driver; Jellyfin seeks help from devs; and more. (Nate Drake)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Introduced by Les Pounder, who is excited about the arrival of the Pi 5, plus we learn about initiatives for young coders. (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.