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DOWNLOAD PRO-LEVEL MUSIC MIXING MAGEIAFREE Digital audio workstations 1 Ardour 6.5 2 MusE 4.0 3 LMMS 1.2.2 4 Qtractor 0.9 5 Waveform Pro 11.5 PLUS! HOW TO… 8 EMULATE THE APPLE II VIDEO CALL WITH JITSI RENDER WITH BLENDER The #1 open source mag PLUG & PLAY Pi PROJECTS Amazing builds you can complete in a day: Bitcoin CCTV security Multi-room audio Machine learning Retro games and more! pages of 67 tutorials & features Expert advice on the best coding languages for school Transform your photos with better GIMP effects Discover how Kubernetes is transforming Linux use GAME CODING MAKE SYSTEM TOOLS Create a first- Using Python to control person shooter the Linux filesystem 2021 May LXF WELCOME Pico boo! WHO WE ARE I remember people used to talk about market disrupters and truly the We’re trying out Raspberry Pi and Pico Raspberry Pi was just that. In a world projects this issue – so what’s your that looked like it was falling into a corporate-owned walled garden of favourite maker project or Pi add-on? locked-down “smart” devices, like the Apple iPad and Google Nexus phones, came 10 thousand bare-naked Raspberry Pis that happened to run Jonni Bidwell Linux. Who’d be mad enough to want to My RetroPie set up is losing me lots of hours. buy one of those? Forty million Pi sales But I’ve also been mesmerised by magnetic later and here we are… marble tracks from a local maker in Bath. It’s not like the Raspberry Pi was They’re laser-cut from wood with stylish living unique as a device. Beagle and Arduino had similar single-board computers, hinges for the curvaceous bits. A modern take but at much higher prices and without necessarily the software backing it on a childhoodhildh d classic.l Check them out at https://deepmake.io. up. At the time I read a lot of Pi criticism pointing out the better specs of competing devices, while completely ignoring the software and price point. It’s not quite the same, but when the Apple iPhone launched there were Nick Peers better and more capable devices such as the Nokia E90. However, Apple put My favourite Pi project was one I documented the software in place and made its device easier to use and to develop for. way back in LXF239 and 240: creating a If anything, the Raspberry Pi – much like the Apple iPhone – sparked the multi-room audio system with Logitech Media imagination of developers around the globe. It drew together a community Server and a Pi Zero running PiCorePlayer. to develop the software and put in place a charitable body to drive the It’s three years since I installed it, and I’m still logistics and direction of hardware development. So nine years on the llistening to music through it every single day. Raspberry Pi Foundation is able to release the $4 Pi Pico, which it’s designed entirely itself and can ship worldwide without a hitch. Remarkable. We’re having our annual look at the best Raspberry Pi projects in Les Pounder conjunction with Tom’s Hardware, because our very own Les Pounder has For me the Raspberry Pi Pico has been a jumped ship and works for them now, creating endless top-notch Pi news, runaway success, more so now that I have reviews and projects. The dirty splitter! (Don’t worry Les still writes for us.) the Maker Pi Pico board from Cytron. For $10 It’s not all Pi talk, though. We start a series looking at the basics of using I have a Pico and lots of connections for Grove the amazing Blender, try special effects in GIMP, explore Kubernetes, review components, a speaker, micro SD card reader educational programming languages, create a basic first-person shooter and lots of built-in LEDs to play with. aping Wolfenstein, emulate the classic Apple ][, test audio workstation software and loads more! So enjoy. Mayank Sharma I thought I had seen them all, but then last week I heard of a Russian doctoral student who trained a Raspberry Pi 3 to detect and Neil Mohr Editor track mosquitoes with the help of OpenCV [email protected] and AI, before it triggered the mounted one-wattttlaser lto t zap them out of existence. Michael Reed The Pi 400 might be the next thing I buy for myself. My plan would be to turn it into a retro Subscribe computing workstation. It’s always appealed to me to be able to recreate older machines & save! such as the Amiga and the Acorn Archimedes On digital and print – and have them on tap, in my living room. see p24 www.techradar.com/pro/linux May 2021 LXF275 3 PLUS! SUBSCRIBE NOW! Contents Page 24 REVIEWS PLUG & PLAY AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 17 Zak Storey climbs onto the closest thing the computing industry has to a unicorn, and straps in for the ride of his life. PI PROJECTS Jonni Bidwell plunders Tom’s Hardware to bring you the best in Raspberry Pi-based entertainment. Turn to page 32 to see the fruits of his labours. WD Black SN850 1TB 18 Move over Samsung, there’s a new PCIe 4.0 storage king in town says Alan Dexter, as he reaches for the ermine-lined cloak. SparkyLinux 2021.03 19 Its unimpressive appearance intrigued Mayank Sharma, who wants to find how this distro has survived for as long as it has. SystemRescue 8.0 20 If you’re as adventurous with your installations as Mayank Sharma, then you’ll want to keep a copy of this distro handy… In association with CentOS Stream 8 21 Mayank Sharma studies the distro that has the open source community up in arms, to see what the hullabaloo is all about. ROUNDUP IN-DEPTH Spiritfarer 22 In these turbulent times management has shown uncharacteristic compassion and allowed Rachel Watts to contemplate life. Audio workstations 26 A parent’s guide to programming 42 The Linux desktop has always had its share Mike Bedford investigates which of music software. Michael Reed looks at programming languages to consider if the cream of the current Digital Audio you want to help your children get a head- Workstations crop. start in coding. 4 LXF275 May 2021 www.linuxformat.com CONTENTS ON YOUR Pi USER FREE DVD Mageia 8.0 Raspberry Pi news 46 AntiX 19.3 Interest heats up for the Coolest Projects, See page 96 plus Ethernet double-whammy and MicroPython is piped on to the Pi. MX-Fluxbox Pi 21.02.20 47 Les Pounder is always on the lookout for a new slice of Pi and with MX Linux he discovers something fresh from the oven. DVD pages 96 Escape from evil space squids! 48 This issue’s coverdisc is your chance to try Les Pounder has to evade the clutches of out the long-awaited Mageia 8 and the the evil space squids, but can he do the lightweight antiX 19.3. Jonni Bidwell takes maths to escape the planet? you through both Linux distributions. New tricks for the Pico voltmeter 50 Tam Hanna expands his basic Raspberry Pi Pico voltmeter to improve accuracy and add TUTORIALS a resistor measurement capability. TERMINAL: Fresh multiplexer 58 Shashank Sharma is enthralled by Byobu, an elegant and efficient solution for managing multiple terminal windows. CODING ACADEMY JITSI: Perfect video conferencing 60 Move over Zoom – Nick Peers reveals how Code a first-person shooter 88 to set up your own public (and private) Calvin Robinson looks to the iconic group video chats for free with Jitsi Meet. PC games Doom and Wolfenstein 3D for inspiration, in the latest instalment in RENDER: Getting started in 3D 66 his game coding series. Even if you’ve never used Blender before, Michael Reed will have you blending like a Monitor cycles in directory trees 92 pro by the end of this tutorial. Mihalis Tsoukalos sips on a cold bottle of Mythos in the Greek sun while working with EMULATE: The classic Apple ][ 70 dictionaries, os.walk(), files, symbolic links Les Pounder steps into his time machine and directories. and travels back to 1977, and not just to watch Star Wars on the big screen for once. REGULARS AT A GLANCE GIMP: Add special effects to photos 82 Fancy getting more creative in your photography? Mike Bedford introduces a News 6 Subscriptions 24 few special effects for you to explore. Way-hay for Wayland we cry, NASA lands Tux on Mars, there’s a modular Linux Back issues 64 OFFICE: Co-editing documents 86 laptop coming, Python2 is going on Fedora, Get hold of previous Linux Format editions – Integration of OnlyOffice Docs with SteamLink goes open source and all your but watch out, they’re selling out fast! Confluence enables multiple users to edit servers belong to Microsoft! office documents, finds Kseniya Fedoruk. Overseas subscriptions 65 Kernel watch 10 HotPicks 75 IN-DEPTH Answers 11 Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got the time to We provide the light at the end of various read every Russian Tweet, he’s far too busy long tunnels, including solving network reading every new FOSS release and problems, fixing a scanner that won’t do its writing them up here, like Photoflare, Qytdl, one job and making Wi-Fi work as it should. KWipe, GabTag, Fvid, Draw.io, Spech, 0 A.D., Quadplay, Guitar and Sonice. Mailserver 14 Coding hitch using Python, success in DVD pages 96 running a distro off a USB stick, what Kubernets krazyness! 54 Microsoft wants from Linux, and more.