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We`re wildly excited about the Raspberry Pi, and you should be too. It`s a full, working PC, it runs Linux and it costs just $25. It`s not Windows 8-certified, but it`s going to change the way the world thinks about computing.We go behind the scenes to bring you the inside story of this revolutionary bit of kit.
Elsewhere in the magazine we speed up your Linux box to within an inch of its life, pick the best distro for your creaking old PC that`s currently gathering dust in the attic (or struggling to cope with the latest bloatware from Microsoft), and talk to Michael Meeks about the moral forces at work when you choose your distro.
Gasp in shock as Gentoo 12 is revealed as the best distro ever, and feel a warm glow when we try KDE 4.8 and discover that it doesn`t suck (on the contrary, it`s fantastic – we just had to put some flame-bait in here to annoy our KDE-using editor). All this and more, coming to a shiny PDF reading device near you!
On the DVD: CentOS 6.2 + Linux Games Live. Plus 5 other distros!
Features
Raspberry Pi
Introducing the Raspberry Pi – the
$25 Linux box that’s going to revolutionise programming.
(Jonathan Roberts) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
A week in Minecraft
Explore a stonkingly popular adventure game
that’s eight times bigger than planet Earth...
(Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
We caught up
with Michael Meeks to get the inside perspective on
the massive changes they, and desktop
Linux as a whole, have gone through in the
past few years.
(Jonathan Roberts) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
We resist the urge to make disparaging remarks about reality TV
while showing you how to set up your own Big Brother house.
(Leo Maxwell) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
FontForge, Ishw, Gnome photo frame, Pyexpander, Eperiodique,
FileMonitor, SpaceFM, Domination, Eliot, Mungempo
(Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Tutorials
Arduino: Make a chatbot
Why bother with people when you could be instant messaging with your
ever-faithful Arduino pal?
(Nick Veitch) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Get started on using some of Linux’s many MIDI tools, including Rosegarden, to make beautiful music. (Jono Bacon) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
LemonPOS
On a mission to solve unanswered questions, we discover a viable piece of point of sale software – LemonPOS. (Shashank Sharma) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Coding Academy
Assembly: Know your code
In this month’s foray into low-level programming, Mike Saunders
explains how to use code libraries, input and math operations. (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Back to basics: Sorting
More algorithms, higher efficiency and faster sorting.
Jonathan Roberts introduces Quick Sort. (Jonathan Roberts) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
PHP: Extending our calendar
Following his second tutorial, Mike Mackay explains how to add
the functionality to dynamically select races and view details. (Mike Mackay) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Reviews
AfterShot Pro
Bibble used to be the only choice on Linux for processing RAW photos.
Now owned by Corel and renamed, Adam Oxford finds out what’s new.
(Adam Oxford) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Devolo dLan 500
We look at an upgrade to the popular AV-compatible
devices for
transferring
network data
across mains
power
(Graham Morrison) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Gentoo 12
The Mayans definitely got it wrong. The world can’t end now, not when we have possibly the best live DVD ever created. (Shashank Sharma) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Do you have machines acting as paperweights because they can’t keep up
with the hardware demands of modern distros? We can help.
(Mayank Sharma) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
More
News: FOSDEM 2012
Also: France acknowledges the Windows tax, Ubuntu for businesses, HUD, Plasma tablets, and Canonical ends development on Kubuntu. (Andrew Gregory) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Distrowatch: News from the vaults of distro development
