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Full Circle Magazine #166 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 #166 - February 2021 UUBBUUNNTTUU WWEEBB 2200..0044..11 A REPLACEMENT FOR CHROME OS? full circle magazine #166 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.25 Linux News p.04 Podcast Production p.29 Command & Conquer p.23 Linux Loopback p.XX Everyday Ubuntu p.41 Make a Budget p.32 Ubuntu Devices p.XX The Daily Waddle p.39 My Opinion p.48 p.XX My Story p.XX Letters p.51 Review p.51 Inkscape p.35 Q&A p.58 Review p.55 Ubuntu Games p.61 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 #166 2 contents ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : WELCOME TO THE LATEST ISSUE OF FULL CIRCLE ithin this new issue we have yet more Python, the final part of the Podcast production series, W more Inkscape, and an article on making a simple budgeting spreadsheet. Elsewhere, Richard is going back to some retro gaming with Everyday Ubuntu. What's your opinion on light and dark themes? We have an opinion piece on that. And a review of Ubuntu Web. Ubuntu who? Yes, there's a web based Ubuntu that's trying to move into the turf belonging to ChromeOS. And if you need to put said distro onto a USB stick, then we have an article about using Unetbootin. Which I can heartily recommend as I've used it many a time in the past to make a bootable USB stick. Find Full Circle on: If you're looking for some help, advice, or just a chit chat: remember, we have a Telegram group. facebook.com/ I mention this as I've been giving out the wrong link in a couple of emails. The link is: fullcirclemagazine https://t.me/joinchat/PujkVNIY2PO9xxCf. I hope to see you there. Come and say hello. twitter.com/#!/fullcirclemag Last thing for this month is that this issue is coming at you from my new PC. Gone is my old http://issuu.com/ tower. God only knows how many years ago I bought that PC. It's been given retirement and in fullcirclemagazine comes the new Entroware Ares all in one (with Ubuntu 20.04). I'll write a review of it soon. https://mastodon.social/ @fullcirclemagazine Anyway, stay safe, and all the best for 2021! Ronnie [email protected] 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 #166 3 contents ^ NNEEWWSS Submitted by ErikTheUnready ZENTYAL 7.0 SERVER release 5.0 to support IMAP, managers, private browsing mode, recently, which have been Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, end-to-end encrypted sync, tab identified as issues blocking the RELEASED : CalDAV, and CardDAV. MySQL 8 is grouping mode, sidebar, transition to Wayland. For example, 27.01.2021 used to store SOGo data. The DNS configurator with many settings, it is now possible to share your server implementation has been horizontal tab display mode, and desktop using the ‘Pipewire’ media entyal 7.0 is available, built on moved to BIND 9.16.1. The default test mode built-in email client, rss server. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Z size of RSA keys has been increased reader and calendar. (Whew!) specializing in creating servers for to 4096 bits. The base package https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ servicing the local network of small includes the bridge-utils and libvirt- https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/ trying-wayland-by-default-again/ and medium businesses. The clients packages. releases/ 20575 distribution is positioned as an alternative to Windows Server and https://zentyal.com/news/zentyal- includes components to replace 7-0-announcement/ Microsoft Active Directory and WAYLAND AS THE DEFAULT DNF PACKAGE MANAGER Microsoft Exchange Server ON UBUNTU 21.04? RELEASED: services. The size of the iso image is 28.01.2021 29.01.2021 1.1 GB. VIVALDI 3.6 BROWSER RELEASED: he Ubuntu developers have he package manager DNF 4.6 is All aspects of the distribution 28.01.2021 T made the decision to migrate to T available, which is the default are managed through a web Ubuntu 21.04 using the GNOME for Fedora Linux and RHEL 8. DNF is interface, about 40 different ivaldi Technologies has user environment, which by default a fork from Yum 3.4, adapted to modules are combined to manage V announced the release of the runs on the Wayland protocol. work with Python 3 and uses the the network, network services, final version of the proprietary Using proprietary NVIDIA drivers hawkey library as a backend to office server and enterprise Vivaldi 3.6 browser, based on the will continue to offer an X server resolve dependencies. Compared to infrastructure components. Chromium engine. The browser is based session by default. For the Yum, DNF has noticeably faster being developed by the former rest of the configurations, the X- performance, lower memory The new release includes the developers of Opera Presto and based session will be listed as an consumption, and better transition to the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS aims to create a customizable and option. dependency management. base. Domain controller and Active functional browser that preserves Directory implementation has been the privacy of user data. Key They note that many of the The new version adds support updated to Samba 4.11 . The SOGo features include a tracking and ad GNOME session restrictions on for " comps ", a file with metadata Team Pack has been updated to blocker, note, history and bookmark Wayland have been removed for dividing packages into full circle magazine #166 4 contents ^ NEWS functional groups, in the operations development of LibreOffice to https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ the NX Firewall is also of rolling back the history of receive a badge confirming the ubuntu-core-20/20487 distinguished, which allows you to changes (redo, rollback and undo) . contribution of the participant to control network access at the level An option has been added to the the development and including of individual applications. Basic filter_modules directive to filter information about the NITRUX 1.3.7 DISTRIBUTION applications include Index file out obsolete versions based on the achievements. manager (Dolphin can also be module_obsoletes parameter. The WITH NX DESKTOP: used), Kate text editor, Ark archiver, log dnf.log provides reflection of https:// 31.01.2021 Konsole terminal emulator, packages installed or removed via blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/ Chromium browser, VVave music DNF API. Added functions to the 2021/01/29/announcing-libreoffice- he release of the distribution kit player, VLC video player, API to load the repository cache. new-generation/ T Nitrux 1.3.7 , built on the LibreOffice office suite and Pix Ubuntu package base, KDE image viewer. https://github.com/rpm-software- technologies and the OpenRC init system has been published . The management/dnf/releases/tag/ UBUNTU CORE 20 https://nxos.org/changelog/ 4.6.0 distribution develops its own NX changelog-nitrux-1-3-7/ MONOLITHIC DISTRIBUTION Desktop , which is an add-on over AVAILABLE: the user's KDE Plasma 01/29/2021 environment. The AppImages self- LIBREOFFICE NEW contained package system and its RELEASE OF OPNSENSE GENERATION INTRODUCED anonical has released Ubuntu own NX Software Center are being "MARVELOUS MEERKAT": TO ATTRACT YOUTH TO THE C Core 20 , a compact Ubuntu promoted to install additional 31.01.2021 distribution adapted for use on applications. The boot image is 4.3 PROJECT: GB in size. The developments of the new release of the OPNsense 01/29/2021 Internet of Things (IoT) devices, containers, consumer and industrial project are distributed under free A 21.1 firewall distribution is licenses. presented , which is a fork of the he Document Foundation has equipment. 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