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Issue 245 (January 2019) - Top Maker Projects

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This issue we’re celebrating maker culture and helping all the many people that we expect will be wondering what to do with their new toys after Christmas. So jump on board and join the maker revolution and build something fun, something shared and something open source!

For those that just want to stick to their desktops (or laptops) then we’ve plenty of projects for the rest of you. Trying out the best web servers, getting started with Scribus, Emacs, Go, QT5, Kubernetes, analogue computing and loads more so dive in and enjoy!

 Features

The best maker projects

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Tame the cloud - Kubernetes

(Keith Edmunds)
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Answers

Mint 19 upgrade, delete duplicate files, RAID probing, Grub PXE, Case sensitive web server (Neil Bothwick)
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Interview: School of hard blocks

Dr Catherine Mulligan (Chris Thornett)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Manjaro 18.0 KDE, Fedora 29, Fedora 29 Net install (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Pantheon, Hottoe, Eviacam, Mednaffe, Kded-rotation, Zchunk, Arrow.scm, Blackcat-Youtube- Downloader, Rooster, Astromenace, Gate-demo (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Pushover

(Les Pounder)
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Build your own Chromecast

(Christian Cawley)
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Emacs

Pour scorn 'pon your Vim using colleagues (Mats Tage Axelsson)
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Terminal

Boxes - get creative in ASCII (Shashank Sharma)
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Scribus

Design a magazine (John Knight)
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Openmodelica

Analogue processing (Mike Bedford)
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Administeria

Dtrace and tmux (Valentin Sinitsyn)
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 Coding Academy

Go Sudoku

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Qt5 Designer

(John Schwartzman)
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 Reviews

DVB TV uHAT

(Les Pounder)
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Graveyard Keeper

(Linux Format)
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Pop!_OS 18.10

(Mayank Sharma)
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Raspberry Pi 3 A+

(Les Pounder)
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AMD Threadripper 2970WX

(Zak Storey)
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Intel Bean Canyon NUC (NUC8i7BEH)

(Stuart Burns)
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Manjaro Linux 18.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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Web servers

Apache, Nginx, Lightpd, Openlitespeed, Tomcat (Kent Elchuk)
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 More

News: Main news

Ubuntu insights, High-end Linux boxes, RISC-V upgrades, Apple closes door on Linux, More secure Nextcloud (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel news

Kernel 4.20 features, more on Spectre (Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

PoE HAT issues, new funding for schools. (Les Pounder)
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