Without Ubuntu, the current Linux landscape would be unrecognisable. Back in October 2004, the first 4.10 (2004.10) release of Ubuntu, with its intriguing Warty Warthog code name, leapt from obscurity to being one of the most downloaded Linux distrib

As opposed to music players, which can be used to enjoy your own music collection, radio A exposes you to new and, sometimes, old wonders that you otherwise might not come across. While some graphical music players let you stream internet music, CLI

Debian-based Parrot Security boots straight into the live desktop, where the installer is invoked from an icon. It’s nice to see a distro that embraces Btrfs as the main partition format. Other than that, it’s a fairly standard Linux GUI installation

Diet Pi, the low-resource Swiss army knife of distros, runs on anything, so it’s fitting that there D is a new alpha version for the Raspberry Pi 5. After downloading the 170MB disk image – yeah, Diet Pi v9.1 is that small – we used Raspberry Pi Imag

These distros are focused on a technical area of computer use, penetration testing, but that doesn’t mean they’re T not suitable for beginners in this discipline. It’s not much of a surprise that a Gentoo-based distro like Pentoo is more complicated

On 20th March 2024, Redis announced that as of version 7.4, the software will be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available Licence (RSALv2) and Server Side Public Licence (SSPLv1). The Open Source Initiative characterises the Server Side Publi

In late March 2024, Microsoft software engineer Andres Freund was flying home to San Francisco from his native Germany. He’d been doing some micro benchmarking and saw that his system’s sshd processes were using an unusual amount of CPU resources. Th

DigitalPlat, FlyOS developer, proudly announces on its main page: “Imagine coding on your phone, connecting a keyboard and mouse, and effortlessly accessing your favourite tools like LibreOffice, VSCode, GIMP, Jupyter and more. It’s a complete Linux

K ali works differently from the others as it has the security tools in the root of the app launcher. If you know what you’re looking for, the whole thing is searchable from the launcher. The ‘normal’ apps are located in the Usual Applications folder

Kali has it all if you want a pre-made networkhacking distribution. It has an impressive number K of editions to cover most installation scenarios, plus a slick-looking lightweight desktop and a huge set of built-in, well-categorised hacking tools. I

Michael Reed is a sound man in every sense of the term. XLR microphone cables are balanced – negative and positive versions of the signal are sent through the wires. Any differences must have come from the outside of the cable and are removed electri

Previously in Linux Format… We covered how to write P 6502 (LXF312) first on a website and then using an assembler, and then how to develop for the Commodore 64 (LXF313). In this article, we’re continuing with the C64 but moving way from 6502 assembl

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. It may be a film cliché but often there’s more truth told in jest than many might want to admit. If you read certain parts of the internet, you’d think that’s what happened

It’s that most special time of the year when Canonical releases a new Ubuntu LTS. This I time, the creature it has loosed unto the world is Noble Numbat. And what a fine specimen it is. OK, full disclosure before we get stuck in: we’re basing our eva

We began by installing the latest stable release of the AMD64 edition of each distribution into a VirtualBox virtual machine. VMs are good for this sort of work as you can make sure that each distro is working within an identical environment. Apart f

CachyOS is a powerful and secure alternative to Arch, sporting its own secure kernel and custom apps. Use the intuitive installer to choose from a huge range of desktop environments and window managers. CPU: 1GHz Mem: 3GB (4GB best) HDD: 30GB (50GB b

Do you have a burning Linux-related issue that you want to discuss? Write to us at Linux Format, Future Publishing, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath, BA1 1UA or email letters@ linuxformat.com. I’ve just installed Linux Mint. It was very easy and it’s gre

Oscilloscopes are expensive and largely reserved for makers or electronics engineers O who need to understand what a circuit is doing. We can’t make our own, simple oscilloscope and logic analyser with a £4 Raspberry Pi Pico, right? It turns out that

Version: 4.6.1 Web: www.darktable.org If you’re a shutterbug, chances are you’ve got a camera that can save RAW images. I And with Darktable, you can create a professional digital darkroom to convert and process your digital negatives. The app is ava

Neil Mohr has been playing with analogue and then digital photography all his life. Can you believe Linux Format has never run a Krita tutorial, despite many reviews over the C years? Krita has finally turned v5 and we’re taking a flying tour of its

SoM: LM4A (T-Head TH1520 12nm, Quad C910) RISC-V 1.5GHz GPU: Imagination BXM-4-64 GPU Mem: 16GB LPDDR4X Storage: 128GB eMMC + external NGFF SSD, microSD Display: 7-inch touch 1,280x 800 LCD, 1x mini HDMI Input: 72-key keyboard, RedPoint Camera: 2MP

LXF316 will be on sale Tuesday 28th May 2024 Word processors that can help craft that novel you’ve always been talking about and organise large projects. Revive the old roleplaying system for a digital age as we recreate our own play-by-mail gaming

You should reboot to a boot menu (which is quite hard to read on a HiDPI display). Choose Y Ubuntu (it’s the default option, with Windows Boot Manager below it if you installed alongside Windows) and in a few seconds, you are greeted with a login scr

Old data should be backed up, and it’s becoming easier to read files created and saved on other platforms. Thanks to emulation and advances in how data is read on old formats, you can back up cartridges, cassettes and even disks, from 8-bit and 16-bi