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Issue 258 (January 2020) - Hacker Wars

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We explain how your systems are attacked, show you how to penetration test them and how to train yourself up using the Metasploit virtual machine as part of the Kali Linux suite. PLUS: How Blender took on the 3D world, the best audio editors, design your own processor, write music scores, enhance the Gnome desktop, run an open Quake server, build an Android tablet and loads more!

 Features

Hacker Wars

we look into the Metasploit framework (Jonni Bidwell)
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How Blender hit the big time

(Jim Thacker)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

renaming Windows files, Mint install partitions, reading Windows files, clone drives, pipes, split big files (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Interview: RISC-V Business

Jonni Bidwell is back on the conference circuit, eating snacks and mingling with elite hackers like Christina Quast (Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Fedora 31, Kali Light 2019.3, MX Linux 19 (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Mailspring, eDEX-UI, PNPM, Anbox, Coxy, GTK3-mushrooms, Yazram, Crow, Translate, The Powder, Toy, N-gon, Zstd (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Vim

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Musescore

(Nick Peers)
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Gnome desktop extensions

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

Logisim: design a CPU

(Mike Bedford)
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Libreoffice: text docs to rich docs

(Andrew Davison)
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ChromeOS

Build a Chromebox with Chromium OS (Christian Cawley)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Build an Arduino powered robot

(Les Pounder)
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Lineage OS

Build an Android tablet (Christian Cawley)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Quake

Run an open source gaming server (Christian Cawley)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Micro:bit walkie-talkies

(Calvin Robinson)
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Database access with C++

(John Schwartzman)
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 Reviews

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

(Linux Format)
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Fedora 31

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Clear Linux 31530

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

OpenIndiana 2019.10

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

MidnightBSD 1.2

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Arduino Nano 33 IOT

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Arduino Nano Every

(Les Pounder)
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Audio editors

Ardour, Audacity, LMMS, Ocenaudio, Qtracto (Shashank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

Google mainlines Android, Microsoft Defender for Linux, fwupd update, Debian mulls init, GNOME fightback and a PinePhone (Matt Hanson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Kernel Watch

Someone leaves Red Hat, Linux 5.4 (Jon Masters)
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News: Arduino User

For one issue only! Arduino on GitHub, multi-touch kit, Escape room case (Les Pounder)
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