CONTENTS September LV006 The ninth project: create 115 page of awesome. Mission accomplished!

18 REGULARS SUBSCRIBE 06 News ON PAGE 60 The NSA is watching us drool over the new Model B Raspberry Pi.

08 Distrohopper Try Voyager 14.04, Netrunner and RHEL; and think on when 8 you name your next project. 10 Gaming RASPBERRY PI PROJECTS Civilization: Beyond Earth is coming to . All other Track a space station, program activity rendered pointless. Minecraft, set up a security cam and 12 Speak your brains Let us know what’s going on in more. What are you waiting for? your precious cerebral cortex. Not you, Crown Prince Ekoku!

16 LV on tour The grapevine tingles with news from Edinburgh, Verona 30 and Bristol.

40 Interview Daniel Stone, one of the movers and shakers behind the Wayland display server.

54 Group test Do your productivity a favour by switching to one of these tiling window managers.

60 Subscribe! And whet your appetite for the feast of Free Software to come in LV007.

Why KDE 5 is going to rock, and avoid the 62 Cloud admin Build, ship and run blunders of early 4.x releases distributed applications with containers and Docker.

64 Core technologies More arcane lore from Dr Chris Brown’s compendium of Linux.

68 FOSSpicks Picks so free, they’re freer than a bird dressed up as William Wallace. 110 Masterclass 34 38 26 Keep tabs on your hard FORK IT FAQ: SLACKWARE drive with Smart and Projects sometimes Apart from being Meet the oldest distro GSmartControl. split, but it’s usually Swedish for ‘crayon’, in town – it still has 114 My Linux desktop for the best – here’s this image editor is many fans. Once you Boudewijn Rempt, the main man behind Krita, invites us into his why it happens and beating Gimp at its try Slackware, there’s mysterious den. how we’ve all gained. own game. no going back.

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46 CentOS 7 Krita: Get started with Build a quiz in Python, This respin of Red Hat brush modes and layers EasyGUI and Pygame Enterprise Linux brings all the features at none of the cost. Paint your masterpiece with Free Use functions, variables and Software and the Divine Stallman. lists to expand your skills.

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48 Minetest Immerse yourself in a blocky world of digging and building. Tor: Encrypt your Linux 101: Master your Wait – that sounds familiar! internet traffic package manager 49 Opera Developer 24 You may not have anything to Find out what’s going on at the Shock horror – a non-free web hide, but you can still help. heart of your Linux distro. browser for Linux. The thing is though, it’s actually jolly good…

90 98 50 AfterShot Pro 2 Bibble became AfterShot which has now become version 2. Can this release be the for Linux?

51 Harmony Smart Control Logitech wants to replace your ever-growing bundle of remote Arduino & Python: Sigil: Create quality controls with a single mobile Build robotic weaponry ebooks for any OS application. Is it made of win? Add face recognition software Self publishing is the future of the 52 Books Something old, to a toy gun. Mayhem ensues! novel, so why not try it today? something new, and something that has us terrified of the NSA. 102 Code ninja: Callbacks 104 Alan Turing and the and non-blocking IO Manchester Mark I Let your JavaScript flow free Nazis defeated, our hero as a mountain stream. Turing is just getting started.

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