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KDE 4ON reimagined YOURwww.linuxformat.com/downloads*Get the byFREE ISO Rosa of the DVD DVDLinux from 3 top Raspberry Pi add-ons + Hotpicks, code and more! #1 for Free Software BUILD YOUR OWN DISTRO Create the perfect operating system for you and show Mint,Fedora and Ubuntu how it should be done 8 pages of programming excellence Concepts Compress images p84 OpenEuphoria Code happy p86 HTML 5 Scrolling effects p90 Firefox vs Chrome Also inside… The browser wars blitz through IS YOUR the Linux Maginot line p20 FREE DVD Ubuntu for phones MISSING? Why you will want one – as soon Speak to your as they’re in the shops p50 newsagent A cyborg speaks now! OS/4 OpenLinux Relive the glory days of the Amiga, When I use it on aeroplanes then relax with Steam games p18 people go ‘What is that? That looks so cool!’ Collection managers Karen Sandler on showing off with Gnome 3 p42 Keep tabs on your hoard of shiny things p26 Cloud computing Package management Web applications Amazon cloud stuff FPM Juju Charms Harness the power of Forget RPMs and Deb – Enable mere mortals someone else’s servers this is the one to rule them all to install your web apps TuxRadar.com Welcome #1 for Free Software What we do We support the open source community by providing a resource of information, and a forum for debate. We help all readers get more from Linux with our tutorials section – we’ve something for everyone! We license all the source code we print in our tutorials section under the GNU GPLv3. We give you the most accurate, unbiased and up-to-date information on all things Linux. Who we are In this issue, Ben looks at some great add-ons for the Raspberry Pi. So we asked our contributors, what Raspberry Pi add-ons would they like to see? 22 years of brilliance It’s been 22 years since Linus Torvalds made his now famous announcement proclaiming the availability of Linux. Linus recently mentioned this on his Google+ account, so he must still think this was a significant moment. But this is also the month when Steve Ballmer announced his Chris Thornett Andrew Gregory Efrain Hernandez- departure from Microsoft. Its easy. Id like a A waterproof laser Mendoza The public image of Ballmer and Torvalds couldn’t be further device that found attachment for my My add-on would removed, and neither could the ‘products’ these two leaders incorrect and sharks. I’d then open a worm hole inappropriate use an SSH tunnel to a beach bar in manage. We used to liken this difference to the battle between apostrophes. to fire them from Acapulco. Goliath and David, but as Linux and Free Software have gone my bunker. from strength to strength, it has become more of a fight between generational shifts in development. It seems to me that for the majority of its life, Microsoft has been run democratically; pools of the smartest brains on the planet push their ideas through various levels of management, each with their own departments, agendas and backing. The Ben Everard Mayank Sharma Jonathan winning ideas aren’t necessarily the best, just those championed A missile proof I’d make an Roberts fl thermal exhaust interconnected A retina scanning by in uential leaders like Steve Ballmer. Linux, on the other port – this Death tower of Pis then device I could use hand, is meritocratic. If a large enough contingent thought Linus Star will last! truly discover the on the folks at wasn’t doing a great job, they’d do it themselves. Just as anyone value of Pi! Linux Format. can create their own distribution (see our feature, p34). Good ideas flourish because they’ve got great support, not because they’re championed through one management tier after another. Microsoft is losing its footing in the rapidly developing and fluid field that technology has become, whereas Free Software evolves to fit new trends and demands Mike Saunders David Cartwright Nick Veitch dynamically, because it’s partly the reason for those trends in A GPIO to MikeOS I’d turn my Pi into I’d use mine to the first place. Microsoft needs to become more open, it needs connector so I can an annoy-a-tron, create a trusted to become more flexible, give its great teams more autonomy continue to play dress as a janitor, network without with x86 asm on and hide it beneath ever connecting to and reduce its management burden. It needs to become more my Pi! Theresa May’s the internet again. like open source or risk the consequences. desk. Graham Morrison Editor [email protected] Juliet Kemp Shashank Sharma Neil Bothwick A device to interface I’d like a device to Has anyone the Pi to Babbage’s make the perfect mentioned sharks Difference Engine cup of coffee, from with lasers yet? for the ultimate bean to cup! They have?! Damn Subscribe today esoteric API! you, Gregory! See p32 for awesome deals www.tuxradar.com November 2013 LXF176 3 Contents “Whatever good things we build, end up building us.” Reviews OS/4 OpenLinux ...............18 Has this app-packed, user-friendly Ubuntu derivative bitten off more than it can chew? OS/4 OpenLinux – the distro that’s trying to please everyone. Create your perfect PC-BSD 9.2 ........................19 operating system and BSD made easy? Is that even possible? Here’s the place to find out. show Mint,Fedora and Ubuntu how it should be done p34 Roundup: Collection managers p26 Getting into the swing of deciding which browser is best. Firefox vs Chromium .......20 The browser behemoths go head-to-head. Find out which packs the biggest punch. Devolo LiveCam................ 22 A wireless IP webcam that claims to work with Linux. Talking heads I’m with Gnome because I Well it looks pretty slick, but how think it’s awesome, but if does it work? another free software Books ................................. 24 Keep fit while coding and every recipe you solution wins, I don’t mind might need for your Raspberry Pi. Karen Sandler on why she backs open source p42 4 LXF176 November 2013 www.linuxformat.com On your free DVD Rosa Freshen up your KDE Peppermint Four Lightweight cloud-friendly OS Treat yourself or a loved one to an LXF PLUS: HotPicks and tutorial code p96 subscription! p32 Don’t miss... Raspberry Pi add-ons .........46 Three of our favourite extras. Ubuntu Phone ......................50 The story so far… Open vSwitch .......................54 The open source server software. Coding Academy Tutorials Coding Concepts ................. 84 Dual booting Ben Everard compresses his JPEGs – and it’s VirtualBox/Fedora ........... 68 not as painful as it sounds. Run two separate distros off the same external hard drive. OpenEuphoria ....................... 86 Juliet Kemp makes us all happy with a language Package management that’s fast to read and quick to compile. FPM .................................... 70 Mike Saunders discovers an easy way to Skrollr .....................................90 build Debs and RPMs. Ben Everard whips up some JavaScript to add some tasty scrolling effects to your HTML. Regulars at a glance News ............................. 6 Subscriptions ...........32 Answers .....................92 Groklaw closes, Ubuntu Edge Never miss an issue – and save YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED funding shortfall and two new useful pennies too. Amazon angst? Data Crow The only Torrent tracker you can gun-based games. dilemmas? We soothe your really trust is your own. Sysadmin ...................56 Linux-based headaches. User groups ................ 11 Dr Chris uses open software to File sharing Sun, sea and a Raspberry Jam at build a closed firewall and discovers Next month ...............98 BitTorrent ...........................74 Barcamp Blackpool and all the LUGs the power of Sed. The Linux handsets heading to a Share files and folders using Transmission meeting in a town near you. phone shop near you. and set up a Torrent tracker. HotPicks ....................60 Mailserver ...................12 Picks even hotter than the Cloud services Forgotten forks, ancient on sale dates, Hungarian Grand Prix: a AWS .....................................76 and some useful tips on how to con customisable text editor, a handy Try out Amazon’s cloud services without parting with any cash. the fraudsters. wiki engine and your very own Linux-based burglar alarm. More cloud services Roundup ....................26 Juju .....................................80 Five collection managers reviewed Back issues ...............66 Cloud-enable your services. Witch doctor and rated – you’ll never lose track of Missing an issue? Get in touch to Our subscriptions team is Nick Veitch shows you how. your stuff again. collect the set. waiting for your call. www.tuxradar.com November 2013 LXF176 5 9000 THIS ISSUE: Ubuntu Edge War games GPL violation Android arguments BIG BROTHER Groklaw shuts down Award-winning, software freedom-defending legal site to close over privacy fears. roklaw, the legal site set up to US out or to the US in, but really fight the protracted SCO vs anywhere. You don’t expect a stranger GIBM case (see boxout, below) to read your private communications to has folded after 10 years of award- a friend. And once you know they can, winning campaigning journalism. The what is there to say? Constricted and site’s founder, Pamela Jones, cited fears distracted … That’s how I feel.” that she would not be able to protect the identity of sources in the light of Thanks for all the fishes recent revelations over email security. Jones, a paralegal by training, set up Writing in the site’s last post, Jones Groklaw to bridge the gap in said: “The owner of Lavabit tells us that understanding between the worlds of he’s stopped using email and if we knew the programmer and the courtroom.