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Issue 311 (February 2024) - Stay safe online

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Stop Net Nasties! Banish adverts, snoopers, trackers and malware to the Pi Hole for homewide network protection. We’ll get you setup with the total network defence solution – it’ll even run on a PC – and help defend all of your gadgets then we’ll extend it with a VPN to your mobile devices too!

PLUS: Build a classic Lucasarts-style adventure, code your own terminal, emulate analogue computers digitally, the rise and fall of BASIC, rolling Rhino Linux, build a torrent box, get a greener PC, build a MotionEye CCTV system, cross-platform coding, the best file managers and loads more!

 Features

Stay Safe Online

Set up Pi-Hole for maximum protection. (David Rutland)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Roll out the rhino

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Rise and fall of BASIC

(Mike Bedford)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Green PC machines

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

(Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Administeria

Stuart Burns explains why he’s ditched his MacBook Pro in favour of a second-hand ThinkPad, plus offers advice for sysadmins (Stuart Burns)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

hotpicks

Recoll, Polybar, Curtail, Betterbird, BleachBit, FileZilla, JDownloader 2, Gods Deluxe, Naval Battle, Fantascene and Audacity (Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Shell recall

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

MotionEye CCTV

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Analogue computing

(Mike Bedford)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Point and Click Adventure

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Build a Pi Pico piano

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Torrent Pi machine

(Christian Cawley)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Cross platform Kivy development

(Matt Holder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

LXF Shell

Redirection (Ferenc Deak)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

Intel Core i5 1400K

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Endeavour OS 11 2023

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

SysLinuxOS 12.2

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

OpenMandriva Lx 5

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Steam Deck OLED

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Ubuntu 23.10 Pi

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Bambu Lab A1 Mini

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

AccuWeb Hosting

(Mike Williams)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

SmartProxy

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

File managers

Dolphin, Krusader, Midnight, Commander, Nemo, Thunar (Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 More

News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Introduced by Les Pounder, who tips his HAT at Pineberry Pi, plus exciting news for young makers, and a dark theme for Pi OS (Les Pounder)
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News: News

Google blocks ad blockers, X.Org set to be ex-Org, GIMP 3 inches towards release, PipeWire 1.0 is no pipe dream, plus industry insiders’ opinions and a look at some of the latest distro releases. (Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.