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Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #164 - December 2020 ) m o c . r k c i l F ( e c u r B a s i L : o t o h P VIE EVIE RE W R W L K U U 0 B 0 B .1 U 0.1 UNTU 20 CCOOOOKKIINNGG WWIITTHH UUBBUUNNTTUU NTU 2 KOOKBOOK AND COOKIES full circle magazine #164 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.15 Linux News p.04 Podcast Production p.18 Command & Conquer p.13 Linux Loopback p.XX Everyday Ubuntu p.29 Erase with nwipe p.20 Ubuntu Devices p.33 The Daily Waddle p.37 My Opinion p.38 p.XX My Story p.XX Letters p.52 Review p.41 Inkscape p.23 Q&A p.49 Review p.45 Ubuntu Games p.XX 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 #164 2 contents ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : WELCOME TO THE LAST ISSUE* OF FULL CIRCLE es, within this last issue of FCM* we have more Python, more Podcast production, more Y Inkscape, and a very timely piece on using nwipe. Maybe you'll get the gift of a new hard drive? Well, nwipe will help you properly erase that old drive. Personally, by the time I replace a hard drive it's usually given me so much grief that I happily take the old one outside and smash the living daylights out of it with a large hammer. Following on from last month's review of 20.10, we have reviews from Adam of Kubuntu and Lubuntu 20.10. In other reviews, Erik takes a look at Goggle Music Manager and interviews the developer. Find Full Circle on: Elsewhere this issue, we have Flash giving us a brief cookery lesson. I'm definitely going to try facebook.com/ his cookie recipe. Wish me luck. I've got the fire blanket and extinguisher at the ready. I'll know fullcirclemagazine they're ready when the smoke alarm goes off. twitter.com/#!/fullcirclemag In other news: Ubports have released another update to their mobile Touch OS. OTA-15 brings http://issuu.com/ more under the hood changes and sets the stage for another big version update in the future. fullcirclemagazine https://mastodon.social/ That's it for FCM*. Stay safe and well! @fullcirclemagazine All the best! Ronnie Weekly News: [email protected] http://fullcirclemagazine.org/ * the last issue of 2020 that is... :) 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 #164 3 contents ^ NNEEWWSS Submitted by ErikTheUnready GNOME CIRCLE INITIATIVE code is distributed under an open conferencing platform, Gitlab RHEL users, an additional paid source license approved by OSI . repository, and a Nextcloud based Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) FOR LATFORM GNOME P repository account. subscription is offered, updates DEVELOPERS: Developers who join the with critical fixes will be released initiative are not required to follow https://www.gnome.org/news/ for RHEL 6 branch until June 30, 11/30/2020 the GNOME development schedule 2020/11/gnome-circle/ 2024. Oracle Linux 6 support will and develop on the GNOME end in March 2021. he GNOME Project introduced infrastructure. For applications, it is the GNOME Circle Initiative to T desirable, but not required, to END OF SUPPORT FOR https://www.mail-archive.com/ make it easier for third-party package in the Flatpak format, scientific-linux- projects to enter the GNOME follow the GNOME interface design CENTOS 6, RHEL 6 AND [email protected]/ ecosystem. Until now, joining the guidelines, and provide SCIENTIFIC LINUX 6: msg00057.html GNOME project required a components for integration with transition to the GNOME the GNOME desktop (icon, desktop 11/30/2020 infrastructure and adherence to file, and screenshot for the the project's rules of development, application manager). For libraries, ovember 30 was the last day OPENZFS 2.0 RELEASE, which was a barrier to the entry it is desirable to maintain glib, N of support for the CentOS 6, into the GNOME community of follow GNOME coding guidelines, RHEL 6 and Scientific Linux 6 ZFS IMPLEMENTATION FOR developers developing personal and provide documentation. branches, which have expired and LINUX AND FREEBSD projects. GNOME Circle does not accept will no longer be maintained. The projects that require a Code Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 branch 12/01/2020 With the help of GNOME Circle, Transfer Agreement (CLA). was conceived in November 2010 it is planned to reduce the barrier and has been supported for 10 fter a year and a half of to entry into the project and GNOME Circle members, in years. A development , the OpenZFS organize interaction with addition to promoting their 2.0 project has been released , developers developing programs development more broadly, will All Scientific Linux 6 related developing the implementation of based on the GNOME platform. In have access to grants from the packages have been moved to the the ZFS file system for Linux and order to become a member of the GNOME Foundation for conference archive, which will break the FreeBSD. The project became GNOME Circle, it is enough to travel and marketing. Participants Scientific Linux 6 yum repos using known as "ZFS on Linux" and was develop a quality application or will also be given access to GNOME the official servers. Users are previously limited to developing a library that uses the GNOME services such as @ gnome.org encouraged to upgrade their module for the Linux kernel. After platform or GTK library, and the email, blog hosting, video systems to branches 7 or 8. For the transfer of support for full circle magazine #164 4 contents ^ NEWS FreeBSD, it was recognized as the LIGHTTPD 1.4.56 HTTP for managing the available server of the basic Mutter plugin. All main implementation of OpenZFS components. The size of the panel elements are applets, which SERVER RELEASE WITH and was removed from the installation image is 1.2 GB. An allows you to flexibly customize mention of Linux in the name. All HTTP / 2 SUPPORT online demo is provided to get the composition, change the ZFS development activity for Linux acquainted with the capabilities of placement and replace the and BSD systems is now 12/01/2020 the interface . The project implementation of the main panel concentrated in one project and is developments are distributed elements to your taste. Among the being developed in a common he lighttpd 1.4.56 lightweight under free licenses. available applets are the classic repository. T http server has been released . application menu, task switching The new version contains 600 https://community.nethserver.org/ system, area with a list of open OpenZFS is already used in the changes. The most significant t/nethserver-7-9-released-roasted- windows, viewing virtual desktops, FreeBSD upstream (HEAD) and is innovation is the implementation chestnut-edition/17002 power management indicator, included with Debian, Ubuntu, of support for the HTTP / 2 volume control applet, system Gentoo, Sabayon Linux and ALT protocol , which is still disabled by status indicator and clock. default and requires the Linux distributions. Packages with BUDGIE DESKTOP 10.5.2 the new version will soon be installation of the "server.h2proto" https://getsol.us/2020/12/02/ prepared for major Linux and "server.h2c" options in RELEASE: budgie-10-5-2-released/ distributions, including Debian, server.feature-flags. Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL / CentOS. 03.12.2020 https://www.lighttpd.net/ FreeBSD keeps the code in sync SQLITE 3.34.0 RELEASE: with the current OpenZFS 2020/11/29/1.4.56/ he developers of Solus have unveiled Budgie 10.5.2 desktop. codebase. OpenZFS has been T 03.12.2020 tested with Linux kernels 3.10 The Budgie desktop is based on GNOME technologies, but uses its through 5.9 (last release supported NETHSERVER 7.9 SERVER he release of SQLite 3.34.0 , a kernels from 2.6.32) and FreeBSD own implementations of the DISTRIBUTION IS AVAILABLE GNOME Shell, panel, applets, and T lightweight DBMS designed as 12.2, stable / 12 and 13.0 (HEAD) a plug-in library, has been branches. notification system. The project 02.12.2020 code is distributed under the GPLv2 published. SQLite code is distributed as a public domain, i.e. https://zfsonlinux.org/ license. In addition to the Solus ethServer 7.9 is out, which distribution, the Budgie desktop can be used without restrictions N offers a modular solution for also comes in the form of an and free of charge for any purpose.