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On my ancient HP MicroServer, I run FreeNAS, so I can centrally store my data. RClone enables me to copy data to and from various cloud platforms. Completing the package is Home Assistant and various containers, so I can tie all of my smart home gear

My crystal ball is only slightly better than a second-hand Magic 8 Ball, but gazing into it for a preview of 2024 provides a little clarity. Namely, non-stop hype for AI/ML and direct impacts on open source. Money and resources follow hype, so projec

Like every year, there will be two new major releases of LibreOffice in 2024 – version 24.2 in February and version 24.8 in August– the numbering no longer being progressive. In 2024, there will be many accessibility-related innovations, the result o

n 21st November, Jehan Pages, the lead developer of the GNU Image O Manipulation Program (GIMP), announced on Patreon that the muchanticipated GIMP 3.0 is tentatively scheduled for release at the Libre Graphics Conference in May 2024. In broad ter

Beloved by pen-testers everywhere, Kali’s latest iteration includes Gnome 45, giving it the benefit of better search features in Nautilus and full-height sidebars. Kali Linux AMD64 and ARM64 will also now be available on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azur

A recent data corrupting bug in the ext4 filesystem served as a timely reminder about the benefits and limitations of ‘stable’ kernels. The goal of the ‘stable’ kernels is to allow end users and developers to run with the latest and greatest, without

Linus Torvalds announced one of the final Release Candidates for what will be Linux 6.7 (-rc5), making us on track to start the new year with a shiny new 6.7 kernel, and the corresponding twoweek merge window for new features that will eventually sta

Pi Pico or Pico W A buzzer 15x M2M jumper wires 7x push buttons Large breadboard Blu Tack, modelling clay, doublesided tape Code: https://github.com/lesp/ LXF311-Pi-Ano/archive/refs/heads/ main.zip As I write this, Christmas is on the horizon an

As ever, you’ll get the best results from your Raspberry Pi if you set this project up on a fresh installation of your favourite OS. We used Raspberry Pi OS Lite. One of the key strengths of the Raspberry Pi is its fire-and-forgetability. That key qu

If you feel ‘admin’ is too insecure a username for your main account, after setting your password, browse to the MotionEye configuration folder and open motion.conf in a text editor. Uncomment the # @admin_ username admin line and change admin to you

Shell history is one of the most useful and powerful tools at your disposal if you spend S a lot of time working with the CLI. While you can easily tweak the settings on your preferred shell to store 500, 2,000, or even more commands, Atuin offers so

Don’t miss next issue, subscribe on page 16! From the pioneering machines of the ’40s to the home computers of the ’80s, we’ve put F some fascinating computers through their paces via emulation in LXF. But they were all digital, and this ignores an i

Stuart Burns is a Linux administrator for a Fortune 500 company specialising in Linux. I’ve been growing dissatisfied with living in a Mac OS-centred world, so have swapped my £1,800 MacBook Pro for a £250 second-hand ThinkPad as an experiment. The r

We’re sure we’re not the only ones who have tried to download a large W file while watching Netflix at the same time. The stuttering and buffering will drive you crazy. There is no simple built-in way to manage local network I/O. The fix? Wonder Shap

Sometimes novice administrators don’t S understand that cloud disk performance management and optimisation can be an art form. Some cloud providers limit individual disk I/O performance to ensure decent performance is available to all. As an example,

PipeWire 1.0 was released late November (see right), a major milestone in a long journey that I had the opportunity to be a part of. When rumours about PipeWire being a possible successor to PulseAudio had begun circulating in 2018, I was working on