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Chinese-developed distro OpenEuler is denied entry to oss-security’s linux-distros mailing list. Is this the end of open source collaboration? In mid-October 2023, a contributor to the Linux distro OpenEuler created a thread on OpenWall to request th

I remember TurboPrint from my early Amiga days and saw it mentioned on YouTube for Linux. Could you do a bit of digging and find out if it is still available for Linux, and if so, could you review it? Ian Learmonth Neil says… Thanks for your letter

A ddlink has long been a budget alternative for SSDs, whether highend or low, and it has doubled down on this status by highlighting the new A93 as a ‘value’ selection. These are misleading descriptions because inexpensive drives such as the A93 can

The Intel Arc A580 is finally here. Announced in 2022, we initially expected to see the card go on sale in early 2023. Functionally, it looks very much like the A750 and A770 8GB. The key difference is that four additional Xe-Cores have been disabled

T ails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is a Debian-based securityfocused Linux distro. Although its creators are keen to stress that there’s no such thing as complete anonymity online, Tails can come very close if used properly. Tails is a live O

A ccording to the official documentation, “SpiralLinux is a selection of desktop spins built from Debian GNU/Linux, with a focus on simplicity and out-of-the-box usability across all the major desktop environments.” In other words, installing it mean

We need to copy a great deal of data from the client’s live server. While doing so, using the cp -R command, the server slows down quite a bit. Copying after 5pm, out of office hours, helps but we also need to copy during the day, at a lower speed, s

P isi Linux comes to us from Turkey and has been in active development since 2014. It follows a rolling release model. While it’s built from scratch from a stable base, Pisi is inspired by an older version of the Pardus operating system. The Pisi pro

Raspberry Pi 5 killers WE COMPARE TONS OF STUFF SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO! Orange Pi 3B Udoo Vision Rock 5B Raspberry Pi 5 Asus Tinker Board R2.0 Tam Hanna used thousands of SBCs in an automotive application and lived to tell the tale. Single-board compu

The concept of open source is a wonderful thing – and without it, the technological landscape in which we exist would be fundamentally different, and probably worse. Not least because your favourite computer mag would have no reason to exist. Its gre

A fantastic report by the Raspberry Pi Foundation outlines how its A CoderDojo and Code Club are helping young coders around the world. CoderDojo was started in 2011 by self-taught coders James Whelton and Bill Liao in Co. Cork, Ireland. They wanted

IN BRIEF Looking like something from an industrial future, the dualfan heatsink for all models of Raspberry Pi Zero is a cooling beast. Under load, it kept our Raspberry Pi Zero 2W cool, with and without cooling fans. Easy to build, great to use and

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IN BRIEF Packing the power of the Raspberry Pi Pico into a board half its size, then adding 25 RGB LEDs seems like a dream combo. It works well, but the biggest issues are the lack of Wi-Fi and castellations for surface mount soldering. If you don’t

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As a Linux user, if you’ve ever visited a site secured by SSL, securely wiped a drive or digitally signed an email, you’ve made use of the Linux kernel’s built-in RNG (random number generator). It works by collecting entropy (disorder) from various s

Bash scripting is a cornerstone of the Unix and Linux world. It empowers developers, system B administrators and even casual users to automate tasks, process data and manage systems. But what if you could supercharge your scripting with the power of

IN BRIEF CDNetworks CDN Pro (previously known as CDN360) is a powerful and professional CDN from cloud computing expert CDNetworks, which also offers a host of other high-end cloud services. CDN Pro scores an immediate thumbs-up for its vast network

IN BRIEF From the maintainer of Firefox and champion of web freedom, Mozilla VPN does feel like a service you can trust. Reasonably priced when taken for a year, it offers average speeds and a poor unblocking service. Mozilla VPN began life as a simp

We’re continuing our look at running a selfhosted WordPress website on page 60, but publishing a personal website needn’t be costly or complicated. User-friendly platforms such as WordPress and Wix let you publish online for free – you might not even

Pika Backup AionTask Planify Nyrna Inspector Imgp NewsFlash RufasSliderH eroic Tagger Monophony Version: 0.6.2 Web: https://apps. gnome.org/PikaBackup There’s no dearth of apps that help you back up important data, and that’s a good thing. If you T h

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