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Issue 278 (August 2021) - Faster, better servers

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CentOS is dead, long live CentOS! We’re building better, faster servers with the next generation of distros, powering us along is CentOS Stream and the all-new Rocky Linux. We explore why the change happened, how to switch and is Rocky Linux the way to go…

PLUS: we recover files with Photorec, use tablets as second screens, create models in Blender, try out the classic Altair 8800, build a tiny distro with Yocto, explore why X11 is so terrible, test the best desktop virtualization and loads more!

 Features

Faster, better servers

As the dust settles following Red Hat’s winding down of CentOS, Jonni Bidwell looks for alternatives. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Why X11 is awful

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Web-app securty

Former Dark Lord of Network Operations Tim Armstrong teaches the mystical arts of systems, security and keeping your stuff secret and safe. (Tim Armstrong)
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Answers

Modern modem problems explored, mini-Wi-Fi module problems attacked, sorting BIOS time-based issues, and Let’s Encrypt certificate shenanigans dealt with. (Neil Bothwick)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Bodhi 6, Lubuntu 21.04, AntiX 19.4 (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got time to take his Russian ISS module home – he’s too busy taking home the latest open source offerings, including KDFM, Oil, Mousemic, Diskgraph, Mergerfs, Fedy, Autokey, Eggvance, URL Snake, Pacstall and Xbrzscale. (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Photorec file recovery

(Shashank Sharma)
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Deskreen: Mobile second screens

(Nick Peers)
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Blender: Modelling images

(Michael Reed)
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emulation: Altair 8800

(Mike Bedford)
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Yocto: Build a tiny distro

(Alexander Tolstoy)
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Webcams in Scratch

(Les Pounder)
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Get to grips with breadboards

(Mike Bedford)
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Backup and clone your Pi

(Christian Cawley)
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Chromium OS on your Pi

(Linux Format)
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 Coding Academy

The RabbitMQ message broker

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Asynchronous code with Python

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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 Reviews

Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 7000 SSD

(Linux Format)
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OSGeoLive 14.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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Bodhi Linux 6.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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GeckoLinux Rolling 999.21

(Mayank Sharma)
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NomadBSD 130R-20210508

(Mayank Sharma)
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Silicon Dreams

(Linux Format)
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Ubuntu 21.04 Pi

(Les Pounder)
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Desktop virtualisation

Aqemu 0.92, Gnome Boxes 40.1, VirtualBox 6.1.22, Virt-manager 3.2, VMWare Workstation Player 16.1.2 (Neil Bothwick)
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 More

News: News

Worry about FragAttacks on your Wi-Fi, worry about using Freenode, worry about using Audacity, don’t worry about using DLSS on Linux or random RGB lights or LibreOffice because it’s doing fine! (Matt Hanson)
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News: Pi news

Pete Lomas is in the column chair. The Pi Foundation releases the RP2040 SoC SMD. (Les Pounder)
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News: Kernel Watch

(Jon Masters)
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