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Issue 313 (April 2024) - Hack your systems

Get kitted out with the ultimate Hacker’s Toolkit and all the knowledge you need to get started probing your networks, cracking your passwords, customising the kernel and building payloads to hijack Android devices. We get you up and running with Kali Linux and how to use it.

PLUS: discover Easy OS the best live distro, finish building your point-and-click adventure, add plug-ins to the LXF Shell, write your own Commodore 64 game in assembly, create models in OpenSCAD, we explore the Framework laptop and loads more!

 Features

Hack your Systems

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

The Paw-fect distro

Puppy Linux EasyOS (Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

PDF signatures and conversion, KDE Wallet, grabbing YouTube movies (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Framework laptops

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Administeria

Stuart Burns laments the cost of IPOs, plus talks up disk management as well as using the Pi 5 as a mini server. (Stuart Burns)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Index, QDirStat, VokoscreenNG, Atop, Sleek, SimpleX Chat, RustDesk, UnCiv, Naikari, Nyxt and Pin It! (Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Terminal - parallel processes

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

VirtualBox

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Filesystems - Ext4

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

Adventure Game Studio part 4

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

OpenSCAD p1

(Tam Hanna)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pi prank box

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pi VPN box

(Christian Cawley)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Maestro Rust kernel

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Revealing the shell

(Ferenc Deak)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Develop games for the C64

(David Bolton)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

GeForce RTX 4070 Super

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Linux Mint 21.3

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

AV Linux MXE-23.1

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Solus 4.5

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

SDesk 2024.01

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

MX Linux 23.1 Pi

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

NMVe Base Pi 5

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Retro gaming distros

Recalbox, Batocera, RetroArch, RetroPie, Lakka (Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 More

News: News

Change at top of Mozilla, Plumbers Conference in the pipeline, donation to help Rust shine, Ryzen AI on Linux horizon, plus views and opinions from industry insiders, and a round-up of the latest distro releases. (Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Introduced by Les Pounder, who weighs up the pros and cons of Raspberry Pi Ltd’s proposed IPO. (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.