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Issue 222 (April 2017) - Jedi Master the Terminal

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Jedi master the terminal! In an age of advanced GUIs, touch screens and high-definition displays why even consider the 80-character wide text-only terminal option? Control and universality. The ability to administer every aspect of a system is attractive enough, but when you realise these skills are transferable in one guise or another across a large chunk of the Unix universe, surely you can see the advantage? Focus your Linux powers to use the full force of a CLI! Plus all this too:

Privacy distros - we roundup the best distros for protecting your details online
Open source P2P - using filesharing for the good of all!
Nginx webserver - Get more from the low-resource webserver on and off the Raspberry Pi
Tiling window managers - Discover how to take control of your windows
MicroPython bots - Build battling radio controlled robots
Pi Compute Module 3 - we look at the new industrial dev board
Dirt Rally - amazing racing comes to Linux

 Features

Build the Ultimate server

The base LXF server install (Jonni Bidwell)
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Jedi Master the Terminal

(Mayank Sharma)
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Administeria

Datacentre Operating System DC/OS part 2 (Jolyon Brown)
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Interview: Cory Doctorow

(Jonni Bidwell)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Mint 18.1 Cinnamon, Mint 18.1 MATE, Scientific Linux 7.3 (Neil Bothwick)
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HotPicks

Raw Therapee, Qt FLIF Plugin, Babe-Qt, Neofetch, QtPass, KDE Connect, QStardict, RCloneBrowser, Marble, Linux Air Combat, Operation Nautak (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Python: Make a digital assistant

(Les Pounder)
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CMS: Build a content server

(Sean Conway)
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MicroPython: Robot Wars with micro:bit

(Les Pounder)
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Nginx: set up a web server

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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P2P: filesharing

(Alexander Tolstoy)
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Window tiling managers

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
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 Coding Academy

AngularJS

Build a single-page web app (Kent Elchuk)
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Write wc in Python

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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 Reviews

Pi Compute Module 3

(Les Pounder)
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Chapeau 24

(Alexander Tolstoy)
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Intel Core i3 7350K

(Linux Format)
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FreeDOS 1.2

(Alexander Tolstoy)
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Dirt Rally

(Linux Format)
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Intel Pentium G4600

(Jeremy Laird)
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Peppermint 7

(Alexander Tolstoy)
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Privacy distros

Linux Kodachi, Subgraph OS2, Tails, Trusted End Node Security (TENS), Whonix (Mayank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

Microsoft Munich, GitLab failure, Goodbye 32-bit, Kodi crackdown (Matt Hanson)
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News: Pi news

Google AI, MeARM, Asus Tinker SBPC (Les Pounder)
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