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Issue 273 (March 2021) - Better Virtual Machines

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Effortlessly orchestrate all your virtual machines! We explore the best open source solutions for a simpler, easier virtual life. From the VirtualBox basics, to Qemu and on to Xen server solution XCP-ng and advanced GPU virtualisation with Intel VT-g.

Plus piles of open source tutorials, reviews and coding like: the Twin terminal window manager, game engine Roundup, get started with ZFS, emulating the BBC Micro, Active Directory with Samba, decoding satellite images, assembly coding on the Pi and loads more!

Features

Better virtual machines

Forget about the draconian confines of reality and immerse yourself (well, your computing) in a virtual world. Jonni Bidwell’s here with a machines-inside-machines extravaganza. (Jonni Bidwell)

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The Linux Gambit

(Jonni Bidwell)

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Answers

WoL, bootless DVDs, dd backupd, systemd services, lpstat, CUPS (Neil Bothwick)

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Coverdisc

DVD pages

Manjaro 20.2, GeckoLinux 152 (Jonni Bidwell)

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Hotpicks

EiskaltDC++, TabFS, TuxPaint, Chipmunk, Darktable, EasyLogic Studio, Zenith, Tux vs. Yeti, Invasion, Qsnapstore, Dify (Alexander Tolstoy)

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