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Issue 233 (February 2018) - Build the Best PC!

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Build the best PC! We help you get the Linux system you’ve always dreamed of with our expert guide. Easy-to-follow step-by-step advice. Choose AMD Ryzen or Intel Core processors. Set up the optimal filesystem, with your favourite open source distro, add a spot of bcaching and never look back!

Protect yourself with the best password manager, choose from the latest Chromebooks, discover the Calamares installer framework, code more Android apps, build your own desktop environment, tweak your Gnome desktop and so much more.

 Features

Build the best Linux PC!

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Calamares installer

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Interview: the Good Coder

Ann Mwangi (Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Mint 18.3 Cinnamon, Fedora 27 Gnome, OpenMediaVault 4 (Neil Bothwick)
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Hotpicks

Firefox, FLOffice, Spivak, Julius, GNU Time, GuetzliImageIOPlugin, Minitube, CaveExpress, QJournalctl, Screenshotgun, Cfg2html (Alexander Tolstoy)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Custom Pi QR creator

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pi audio streming

Using volumio (Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Terminal Mplayer

(John Knight)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

LibreBase exciting databases

(Bob Moss)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Tweak your Gnome

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Build your own desktop

(Mark Chisholm)
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Administeria SSH

(Valentin Sinitsyn)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Android Studio

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Kotlin

Write system tools (Mihalis Tsoukalos)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

DietPi

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Acer Chromebook R 11

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Asus Chromebook Flip C302

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Google Pixelbook

(Linux Format)
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Lakka 2.1

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Uruk GNU/Linux 2.0

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

The Signal from Tolva

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Roundup Password managers

Bitwarden, Encryptr, KeePassXC, LazLock, Password Gorilla (Shashank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

Net neutrality, RISC-V and Western digital, Patreon's changes, Mozilla speech recognition, Steam Wishes. (Matt Hanson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Archie Roques, Renegade Pi clone, CoderDojo 2000 (Linux Format)
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