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VIE Full Circle RE W THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #162 - October 2020 U B U 10 NTU 20. ) m o c . r k c i l F ( k e r e D : o t o h P DDEEMMYYSSTTIIFFYYIINNGG NNMMAAPP THE NETWORK MAPPER full circle magazine #162 contents ^ Full Circle Magazine is neither affiliated with,1 nor endorsed by, Canonical Ltd. HowTo Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY Python p.23 Linux News p.04 Podcast Production p.30 Command & Conquer p.20 Linux Loopback p.XX Everyday Ubuntu p.46 Rawtherapee p.33 Ubuntu Devices p.XX The Daily Waddle p.35 My Opinion p.XX Krita For Old Photos p.40 My Story p.50 Letters p.59 Review p.57 Inkscape p.37 Q&A p.60 Review p.53 Ubuntu Games p.63 Graphics The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 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Full Circle magazine is entirely independent of Canonical, the sponsor of the Ubuntu projects, and the views and opinions in the magazine should in no way be assumed to have Canonical endorsement. full circle magazine #162 2 contents ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : WELCOME TO THE LATEST ISSUE OF FULL CIRCLE his month, we have the usual suspects of Python, Inkscape, Krita and Rawtherapee, Podcast T Production but Erik begins a new series (in Command & Conquer) about Nmap. To paraphrase Groucho Marx: "it may look complicated, it may sound complicated, but don't let it fool you. It really is complicated". But this month brings the Krita series to an end. I'm sure you know by now that the next version of Ubuntu, and it's cousins, have been released. Well, Adam Hunt springs to the rescue with a review of the brand spanking new Ubuntu 20.10 with reviews of the other flavors in the coming months. Elsewhere, we have an excellent piece from Hüseyin about how, in 2015, a municipality in Find Full Circle on: Turkey converted to using Pardus Linux and LibreOffice. It just shows how it can be done! facebook.com/ fullcirclemagazine That's it for this month. Stay safe and well! twitter.com/#!/fullcirclemag http://issuu.com/ All the best, and keep in touch! fullcirclemagazine Ronnie https://mastodon.social/ [email protected] @fullcirclemagazine Weekly News: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/ feed/podcast http://www.stitcher.com/s? fid=85347&refid=stpr http://tunein.com/radio/Full- FCM PATREON : https://www.patreon.com/fullcirclemagazine Circle-Weekly-News-p855064/ full circle magazine #162 3 contents ^ NNEEWWSS Submitted by ErikTheUnready LIBREOFFICE CELEBRATES 10 Rust as a hobby, presented a comic, includes tools for running more but quite working draft DOS than 85 thousand games and YEARS OF THE PROJECT OPENSSH 8.4 RELEASED: : Subsystem for Linux (DSL). 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The development of the office suite as implementation and includes sftp subsystem sources are distributed The distribution kit is built on a project independent of Oracle, client and server support." under the AGPLv3 license. Ubuntu 20.04 and includes all not requiring developers to updates, as of September 2020. transfer property rights to the Just a long list of changes: A DOS environment with a DSL code and making decisions based layer can be run in the form of a https://ualinux.com/ru/news/reliz- on the principles of meritocracy. https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/ QEMU virtual machine, or installed ubuntu-gamepack-20-04- openssh-unix-dev/2020-September/ on real hardware. Linux programs platformy-dlya-zapuska-igr The project was created a year 038826.html are launched using the dsl utility, after the takeover of Sun similar to the wsl utility. Microsystems due to MIR DISPLAY SERVER 2.1 dissatisfaction with the tight DSL (DOS SUBSYSTEM FOR https://twitter.com/charliesome/ RELEASED: control of development by Oracle, status/1308061921032110085 09/29/2020 which prevented interested LINUX) PROJECT FOR companies from connecting to RUNNING LINUX he release of the display server RELEASE OF UBUNTU collaboration. APPLICATIONS FROM MS- T Mir 2.1 is out, the development GAMEPACK 20.04: is continued by Canonical, despite ENVIRONMENT https:// DOS : 09/29/2020 the abandonment of the 09/28/2020 blog.documentfoundation.org/ development of the Unity shell and blog/2020/09/27/libreoffice-10th- buntu GamePack 20.04 is the Ubuntu edition for harlie Somerville, who develops anniversary/ U available for download, which smartphones. Mir remains in C the CrabOS operating system in full circle magazine #162 4 contents ^ NEWS demand in Canonical projects and about 1600 interactive text games, https://lists.freedesktop.org/ of using the Xen Hypervisor on is now positioned as a solution for including games from LucasArts, archives/mesa-announce/2020- Raspberry Pi 4 boards. Adapting embedded devices and the Humongous Entertainment, September/000600.html Xen to work on previous versions Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be Revolution Software, Cyan and of Raspberry Pi boards was used as a composite server for Sierra, such as Maniac Mansion, OBS STUDIO 26.0 VIDEO hampered by the use of a non- Wayland, which allows any Monkey Island, Broken Sword, standard interrupt controller that application that uses Wayland (for Myst, Blade Runner, King's Quest 1- STREAMING SYSTEM does not have support for example, built with GTK3 / 4, Qt5, 7 , Space Quest 1-6, Discworld, RELEASED: virtualization. The Raspberry Pi 4 or SDL2) to run in Mir-based Simon the Sorcerer, Beneath A 30.09.2020 used the usual GIC-400 interrupt environments. Installation Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, controller supported in Xen, and packages are prepared for Ubuntu and The Legend of Kyrandia. BS Studio 26.0 for streaming, the developers expected that there 18.04-20.10 ( PPA ) and Fedora O streaming, compositing and would be no problems starting Xen. 30/31/32 . The project code is https://www.scummvm.org/news/ video recording is out. The code is But in reality, everything turned distributed under the GPLv2 20200927/ written in C / C++ and is distributed out not to be as expected, and in license. under the GPLv2 license. Binaries order to make Xen work on the MESA 20.2.0, A FREE are generated for Linux, Windows Raspberry Pi 4, noticeable changes https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ and macOS. had to be made to the code to mir-2-1-0-release/18527 IMPLEMENTATION OF work with memory. The fixes were OPENGL AND VULKAN The development goal of OBS included in the Linux 5.9 kernel, SCUMMVM 2.2.0 IS OUT: RELEASED: Studio is to create a free version of and now Xen is recognized as ready for virtualization on Raspberry Pi 4 09/29/2020 09/29/2020 the Open Broadcaster Software application, not tied to the boards. he release of the free cross- epresented by release of free Windows platform, supporting https://xenproject.org/2020/09/29/ platform interpreter of classic API OpenGL implementation OpenGL and extensible via plugins. T R xen-on-raspberry-pi-4-adventures/ games, ScummVM 2.2.0 was and Vulkan - Mesa 20.2.0 . In Mesa released, which replaces 20.2 implemented full support for https://github.com/obsproject/obs- executable files for games and OpenGL 4.6 for GPU Intel (i965 studio/releases/tag/26.0.0 PALE MOON 28.14 allows many classic games to run drivers, iris) and AMD (radeonsi), BROWSER RELEASED: on platforms for which they were OpenGL support 4.5 for GPU AMD XEN HYPERVISOR SUPPORTS 30.09.2020 not originally intended. The project (r600), NVIDIA ( nvc0) and llvmpipe, RASPBERRY PI 4 BOARD: code is distributed under the OpenGL 4.3 for virgl (virtual the 30.09.2020 he Pale Moon 28.14 web GPLv2 license. GPU Virgil3D for QEMU / KVM), as T browser has been released, a well as Vulkan 1.2 support for Intel he developers of the Xen fork of the Firefox codebase to In total, it is possible to launch and AMD cards. project announced the provide better work efficiency, more than 250 quest games and T implementation of the possibility preserve the classic interface, full circle magazine #162 5 contents ^ NEWS minimize memory consumption specifications for the OpenGL pache Software Foundation and provide additional family, Vulkan and OpenCL, Organization introduced A FEDORA LINUX EDITION FOR customization options.