Linux Format Magazine - June 2024
Linux Format Magazine - June 2024
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In this issue
UPGRADE TO UBUNTU 24.04 LTS
The latest Ubuntu is here. Jonni Bidwell has come out of hibernation just to celebrate and (in between cake and tea) tell you all about it.
Build your own oscilloscope
Discover how to build an oscilloscope with a Raspberry Pi Pico, an old Android device and a spare Les Pounder.
Create your first WebSocket service
Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to use the Go programming language to work with the WebSocket protocol.
9 mins
Fantastic Mr Firefox
Nick Peers takes a trip down memory lane to reveal the story behind the rise - and slight fall - of Mozilla's popular web browser.
9 mins
Set up your terminal and email like it's 1983
Jump in the hot terminal time machine with Mats Tage Axelsson who emails from the command line using the latest technology.
8 mins
Universal layer text effects with GIMP
Posters use them, films and presentations are hard to imagine without them: text effects. Attract attention with Karsten Günther and GIMP.
8 mins
Jump to a federated social network
Nick Peers reveals how you can get up and running with this free, decentralised and non-profit alternative to Twitter.
9 mins
Free our SOFTWARE!
Taking anything for granted is dangerous, so Jonni Bidwell and Mike Saunders revisit how the free software movement got started to help free us from proprietary tyranny!
4 mins
Master RPI.GPIO
Les Pounder goes back to the early days of the Raspberry Pi - and his career with this classic library! -
5 mins
Waveshare Zero to Pi3
Transform your Pi Zero into a Pi 3, they promised Les Pounder, but it's more like adding on go-faster stripes.
2 mins
The Best OPEN SOURCE Software Ever!
In an attempt to trigger controversy, Michael Reed and Neil Mohr unequivocally state these are the greatest free software apps ever. Probably. We’re just trying to be helpful.
10+ mins
Linux-Mandrake 7
Simplicity and a wide range of applications make this a great distribution for all Linux users.
2 mins
Ubuntu 5.04
Andy Hudson hopes this is one hedgehog that won’t get squashed.
3 mins
SUSE Linux 6.3
We test this long-established German company’s latest distribution effort. Can it hold off the competition?
2 mins
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
It may be a bit behind the times, but Debian is one of the best distributions on the market.
2 mins
Corel Linux 1.0
Corel’s entry into the Linux market has potential, but there are issues.
2 mins
Mailserver
Linux is the way forward, is it? The future of alternative computing and all that? My experience of Unix machines only covers the terminals at uni and I wasn’t impressed, although I think they probably had outdated kernels and were badly configured – I never even got around to installing LinuxAPUS on my trusty PPC-powered Amiga (you shouldn’t laugh).
4 mins
Recreating the classic Bomberman
When we said \"go out with a bang\", Andrew Smith took it to heart and decided to blow more than just the blinking doors off!
10 mins
How to trace code directly with eBPF
Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to take advantage of eBFP with a range of different programming languages.
10+ mins
Deck the hardware
We revisit and trick out the Valve Steam Deck a year on from release.
10 mins
Making Git so easy, we say it's Magit!
Aaron Peters uses the Emacs Git client Magit to perform a long overdue update of his LXF repository.
10+ mins
Getting creative with algorithmic art
Mike Bedford demonstrates how you can exercise your left and right brain simultaneously by generating algorithmic art.
10+ mins
Using enhanced layer features with G'MIC
Karsten Günther takes a look beyond GIMP's standard layer functions. Besides special GIMP operations, tasks provided by G'MIC loom into view.
10+ mins
Giving praise to the TempleOS
Michael Reed delves into one of the most unusual operating systems he's ever seen and explores the story behind its creation.
10 mins
No changes allowed!
Matt Holder explores immutable operating systems, containerised apps and containers to see if they describe the future of the Linux distro.
9 mins
Add and monitor control sensors
Making sense of the situation, Les Pounder shows us how to use sensors with a robot to get about town!
10+ mins
Batch convert and optimise your images
Nick Peers reveals how to quickly apply the same changes to multiple images at once with the simple-to-configure Converseen.
5 mins
Super system monitor
No sniggering at the back as Shashank Sharma shows you his bottom.
5 mins
Pico GPIO control with JavaScript
Les Pounder strays from Python to show us that JavaScript, the language of the web, is a viable Pico alternative.
5 mins
Pi Camera Module v3
The latest version of Pi's mainstream camera module has autofocus, HDR and wide angle, proclaims Les Pounder!
2 mins
Arduino 2.0.3
Les Pounder loves tinkering with hardware, so when Arduino revealed its latest IDE, he had an excuse to tinker some more.
2 mins
Pi USER
Millions and millions of RP2040s! | More Pis in store
2 mins
Linux Format Magazine Description:
Publisher: Future
Category: Computer & Mobile
Language: English
Frequency: 13 Issues/Year
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