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Full Circle Magazine #165 Contents ^ Full Circle Magazine Is Neither Affiliated With,1 Nor Endorsed By, Canonical Ltd Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #165 - January 2021 UUBBUUNNTTUU UUNNIITTYY 2200..1100 UNITY DESKTOP LIVES ON full circle magazine #165 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.19 Linux News p.04 Podcast Production p.23 Command & Conquer p.16 Linux Loopback p.XX Everyday Ubuntu p.35 Ventoy p.26 Ubuntu Devices p.XX The Daily Waddle p.39 My Opinion p.38 p.XX My Story p.41 Letters p.51 Review p.45 Inkscape p.29 Q&A p.50 Review p.49 Ubuntu Games p.55 Graphics The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This means you can adapt, copy, distribute and transmit the articles but only under the following conditions: you must attribute the work to the original author in some way (at least a name, email or URL) and to this magazine by name ('Full Circle Magazine') and the URL www.fullcirclemagazine.org (but not attribute the article(s) in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you must distribute the resulting work under the same, similar or a compatible license. 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 #165 2 contents ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : WELCOME TO THE LATEST ISSUE OF FULL CIRCLE ew year, new issue. Within these fine pages we have more Python, more Podcast production, N more Inkscape, and a piece on Ventoy for both Linux and that other OS of whom we shall not speak. "Ventoy? What's Ventoy?" I hear you ask. It's a little known piece of software that you install on a USB stick. Once it's installed you then simply copy distro ISO files onto the USB stick. And, like magic, it'll boot to a menu with your ISO files ready to run. It's bordering on witchcraft. Elsewhere, we have Erik starting another short C&C series. This time on using LMMS. Richard continues with his quest for the holy grail of cookery software. Then, Adam brings us a look at Ubuntu Unity 20.10. Find Full Circle on: New year, new you. Please consider submitting an article. The reserves are running low and facebook.com/ Erik is, in all honesty, keeping the magazine afloat with articles (C&C, Q&A, game reviews, How-To's fullcirclemagazine etc.). Without him and the host of regulars this magazine would have sunk years ago. Please send an article on whatever subject you love the most. It can be a review of software, hardware, even a twitter.com/#!/fullcirclemag book. Your story of how you got into Linux. Anything. All it takes is a couple of regular writers to http://issuu.com/ leave and the magazine will shrink or sink. fullcirclemagazine https://mastodon.social/ So, after some doom and gloom to start the year: send some articles! @fullcirclemagazine All the best for 2021! Ronnie Weekly News: [email protected] 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 #165 3 contents ^ NNEEWWSS Submitted by ErikTheUnready NEW VERSION OF program to automate the and ships with the Linux 5.10 compared to the pseudo-FS / proc, downloading content using the kernel. Updated in this version: but instead of the parameters of MARTMONTOOLS S : HTTP / HTTPS and FTP protocols, is firefox 84.0.1, thunderbird-78.6.0, the current OS, it reflects the state 12/31/2020 out. libreoffice 7.0.4.2, filezilla 3.51.0, of the browser tabs. TabFS consists smplayer 20.6.0 and gimp 2.10.22. of a FUSE module with a user-space new version of https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ Full support for installing the file system implementation and a smartmontools, 7.2 has been A bug-wget/2020-12/msg00024.html distribution on external USB-drives browser add-on for exporting the released , containing smartctl and or SSD-drives has been contents of open tabs. The code is smartd applications for monitoring implemented to obtain a portable distributed under the GPLv3 and controlling (S) ATA, SCSI / SAS working environment. The ability to license. Supported operating and NVMe disks supporting SMART SLACKEL 7.4 DISTRIBUTION update the environment installed systems are Linux and macOS. technology. Supported platforms RELEASED: on external media is also include Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin 02.01.2021 supported. TabFS allows you to use various (macOS), Windows, QNX, OS / 2, existing command line utilities to Solaris, NetBSD and OpenBSD lackel 7.4 distribution is http://www.slackel.gr/forum/ work with the contents of open platforms. S available , built on the viewtopic.php?f=3&t=655 tabs as with ordinary files, as well Slackware and Salix projects, and as create scripts to simplify the You can see all the major fully compatible with the processing of data in tabs (you can changes here: https:// repositories they offer. A key write a handler in any familiar www.smartmontools.org/browser/ TABFS – A FILE SYSTEM FOR feature of Slackel is its use of the programming language, without tags/RELEASE_7_2/smartmontools/ constantly updated Slackware- WORKING WITH BROWSER the need to create a browser add- NEWS Current branch. The graphical TABS: on). environment is based on the 01/03/2021 https://www.smartmontools.org/ Openbox window manager. The https://omar.website/tabfs/ size of the bootable image with he TabFS project is a file system Live mode is 2.2 GB, available in 32 T that displays the contents of GNU WGET 1.21 and 64 bit. The distribution can be tabs open in Chrome or Firefox as a used on systems with as little as ELEASED hierarchy of files, encompassing R : 512 MB of RAM. 01/01/2021 tabbed sites and browser options. The state of files in directories The new release is synchronized wo years since the last major directly reflects the state of tabs in with the current Slackware branch T release GNU Wget 1.21, a the browser - TabFS can be full circle magazine #165 4 contents ^ NEWS THE QT COMPANY HAS the code of the Qt WebEngine and library of basic graphical interface programming interface Qt Script modules, which are linked elements, was released. Although implemented in a separate libtls RESTRICTED ACCESS TO THE to external dependencies under Tcl is mainly used for creating user library. It will be accessible and a SOURCE CODE OF THE LTS the LGPL license. interfaces and as an embedded ported version will be shipped as BRANCH OF QT 5.15: language, Tcl is also suitable for the "dev-libs / libretls" package 01/05/2021 A patch release of Qt 5.15.3 is other tasks. For example, for web with a link to OpenSSL. The libtls scheduled to be published in development, building network fork is being developed as part of a uukka Turunen, director of February for commercial users only. applications, system administration separate project, LibreTLS , which T development at the Qt The Qt Company has expressed its and testing. The project code is allows you to build programs Company, announced the willingness, upon request, to distributed under the BSD license written for libtls using OpenSSL restriction of access to the source provide maintainers of external Qt instead of LibreSSL repository for the Qt 5.15 LTS modules with access to private https://sourceforge.net/p/tcl/ branch, released last May. The repositories, which will give mailman/message/37189924/ https://www.gentoo.org/support/ limitation was introduced in community members the news-items/2021-01-05-libressl- accordance with the plan opportunity to observe changes in GENTOO DROPS SUPPORT support-discontinued.html announced a year ago, which Qt 5.15 LTS. Bug fixes and FOR LIBRESSL IN FAVOR OF implies public publication of the vulnerabilities can also be ported OPENZFS 2.0.1, ZFS code of changes in LTS branches from the dev branch where new Qt OPENSSL AND LIBRETLS: IMPLEMENTATION FOR LINUX only before the building of the releases are being developed. 06.01.2021 next major release. Typically, patches first appear on a AND FREEBSD: given branch and then migrate to ichał Górny notified all of the 07.01.2021 In December, the release of Qt the stable release branches. M decision to terminate 6.0 was made, the code remains LibreSSL support as an alternative n interim release of the available and the publication of the https://lists.qt-project.org/ to OpenSSL. From February 1, A OpenZFS 2.0.1 project is now first corrective update 6.0.1 is pipermail/development/2021- 2021, LibreSSL and the associated available, the ZFS file system expected in the coming days. January/040798.html USE flags will be hidden. Advanced implementation for Linux and Starting from January 5, only users can continue to use LibreSSL, FreeBSD. The project became owners of a commercial license will but Gentoo maintainers warn that known as "ZFS on Linux" and was be able to access the code with TCL / TK 8.6.11 RELEASED: patches will no longer be accepted previously limited to developing a updates for the Qt 5.15 branch.
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