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Discover Ansible the new puppet mAster pages of 46 projects + Raspberry Pi Create a Pi Tor box Code for the kernel Go green with Linux PLUS Make money and Get into Linux today! run a Linux business 100 BEST Linux APPS Your essential guide to all the must-have open source apps Open NHS We exert influence over the Beat Big entire healthcare community Brother around the use of open source The best anonymising Peter Coates on open source in the NHS p44 distros tested and rated Guitarix guide Networking fu School of rock! Build a router Pro-level virtual music Boost security and amps come to Linux hack your own router TuxRadar.com Welcome Get into Linux today! What we do We support the open source community by providing a resource of information, and a forum for debate. We help all readers get more from Linux with our tutorials section – we’ve something for everyone! We license all the source code we print in our tutorials section under the GNU GPLv3. We give you the most accurate, unbiased and up-to-date information on all things Linux. Who we are The best of FOSS This issue we asked out experts: What tool do you find essential, couldn’t live without and Today, we’re celebrating the best of FOSS and why? And no, you can’t all say Emacs… championing the 100 best open source software projects. Software that you must have and shouldn’t miss out on. From big-names like LibreOffice to the tiniest tools Jonni Bidwell such as rtorrent, we’re running a catalogue of our top 100 Well, I never leave the house without must-have tools – and it even includes 70 that will work on the Chrome, but that’s another story. As far as FOSS goes, for me it’s all about the little old and new Raspberry Pi! things so often taken for granted: grep, Of course, if you really love a piece of software, why not ping, tail, lsof and nano (because contribute to it? That’s the real beauty of open source: the sometimes vi is too hard) can solve so many problems. Also MPD controlled by ability to get involved with the most exciting or your most loved phone is the badger’s nadgers. projects, whether big or small. We’re sure we’ve missed out on some favourite tool or project here, and we’re also sure you’ll let us know what that is. So make sure you email us and we’ll let Neil Bothwick everyone know Mailserver on page 12. Well I do use Emacs, but… I’m not sure there is anything so essential. There is so But what use is software without something to run it on? much choice in the free and open source For once we have three systems that come with Linux pre- world that if anything disappeared I’d be installed in our Reviews section starting on page 17. We have a able to find a usable alternative. Having said all that, I’d be hard pushed to do new HP workstation-class laptop, a Dell workstation desktop without ZShell running in screen session and the latest Chromebook from Acer. It’s certainly a sign of the over SSH. time that we’re able to run regular system reviews with PCs that have a flavour of Linux as a default OS option. I’m also excited that we’re interviewing Peter Coates on how Sean Conway Mozilla Firefox is the go-to FOSS for me! the British NHS is using open source in its infrastructure on I cut from Microsoft’s SuperMarioNation page 44. Alongside this a feature on how you can not only run a Internet Explorer software when AOL business with open source, but how a business can deploy and released Netscape. I was a last holdout with that, staying with the web browser maintain open source systems on page 48. We’ve got a new until it reached its end of life. A weaning to sysadmin’s coding series from Dr Chris Brown on page 84 while Firefox was the alternative. No amount of another Brown: Jolyon Brown takes the reins of Administeria on Chrome will give me cause to change. page 56 and Jonni looks into MariaDB on page 88. So enjoy the issue and we’ll be back with more next month! Les Pounder The Arduino project is very dear to my heart. It started the Maker movement with art students in Italy, and thanks to its pricing and ease of use it’s become a huge success. Children and adults around the world have built projects great and small thanks to the blue PCB and its great set of resources. Neil Mohr Editor Mayank Sharma [email protected] VirtualBox! It’s taken the fear out of testing beta software and unfamiliar distros. I can create isolated environments using geekier solutions such as OpenVZ and LXC, but I still prefer the idiot-proof VirtualBox and save all my geekiness for tinkering with whatever it is that I need the virtual Subscribe & save! environment for. Digital and print, see p34 www.linuxformat.com April 2015 LXF196 3 See page 11 for Contents full details. “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” Reviews The HP ZBook 15u G2 ............. 17 Squeeze workstation power into a laptop and add a dash of Linux on top. Magic. BEST 100 Dell Precision T5810 ........18 Put a workstation in workstation’s clothing, then add a dash of Linux on top. Also magic. Linux tools The best FOSS that you can’t afford to miss p36 A workstation-class desktop to make Linux fly like it deserves! Roundup: Acer Chromebook 13 .......19 A new Chromebook that’s packing a new Anonymising distros p28 Nvidia Tegra K1, can it cut the mustard? AMD FX-8320E ................. 20 A ‘budget’ octo-core CPU from AMD might grab your attention, but should it? If you can spot the eight cores from here, you’re better than we are. Tiny Core 6.0 .....................21 Tiny by name, tiny by nature. The latest evolution of the minimal Linux distro. NetRunner 14.1 ................ 23 An updated release of a distro that makes KDE enjoyable, even for Mint users! Opera 27 ............................ 24 Yuck, proprietary software! The question is whether Opera can do better than Firefox? Interview Philips 4K display ............ 26 4K is here, the Linux desktop is ready, so where are all the affordable monitors? I could take, consider, Dying Light ........................27 implement, and share. A city terrorised by brainless, shambling humans getting in your way. Bath, on Fridays. FOSS was a revelation! Peter Coates on open source in the UK’s NHSp44 4 LXF196 April 2015 www.linuxformat.com On your FREE DVD Mint 17.1, Kodi 14, Scientific Linux, TinyCore and more! The best distros money can buy. Treat yourself or a loved one to an LXF PLUS: 164-page Android eBook p96 subscription! p34 Don’t miss... Linux in business.................. 48 How you can run a successful Linux business supporting and running FOSS for all. School of Guitarix....................52 Mix pre-amps and amp models with effects and emulations, and service society by rocking. Coding Academy Tutorials Kernel hacking ...................... 84 NTP Dr Chris Brown is back in a regular series of Time gentlemen! .............. 68 system programming tutorials, kicking off with Sean Conway explores everything NTP kernel system calls, which will provide the based, so you’ve got no excuse for missing grounding in C and Python. that dentist appointment. Raspberry Pi MariaDB ................................. 88 Build a Tor box ................. 71 Jonni Bidwell runs off hand-in-hand with Mayank Sharma trusts no one! So he’s MariaDB, escaping the evil clutches of Oracle to built a Pi-based Tor box in his lead-lined safe live in a freer MySQL world with his first of solitude somewhere in India… database love. aka an introduction to MariaDB. Regulars at a glance News ............................. 6 Subscriptions ...........34 Back issues ...............66 The Biq Ubuntu phone is finally here Subscribeo t our digital edition or Why do you want to make us sad? and then it was gone, in a flash sale. we’ll make you use an Apple iPhone! Make us happy and buy a back issue. Cry me a river, NSA. An odd way to launch a phone! Issue LXF191 is looking for a home! Sysadmin ...................56 Ecryptfs Mailserver ...................12 Mr Brown takes the helm of Next month ...............98 Encrypt everything! ......... 74 The Stallman alternative universe Administeria after an 88 episode run It’s Pi-mageddon! We’re digging up Neil Bothwick trusts no one! So he’s controversy rumbles on, Jonni is from Dr Brown. Kicking off taking a the best Pi projects for old and new encrypting his entire hard drive, here’s how. awful at history and people still love look at CoreOS and Ansible. boards, plus so much more. us it seems, awww. Linux kernel HotPicks ....................60 Startup and standby ........ 76 Jonni Bidwell trusts everyone! He just User groups ................15 Alexander Tolstoy might be Russian, wants to be able to get his PC to sleep. Les Pounder dons his woggle and but he’s not invading the Ukraine, oh celebrates the Pi Jamboree. no, he’s too busy invading GitHub to Networking grab the hottest picks known to man! Build a home router ........ 80 Roundup ....................28 Captured for you: Abiword, GParted, Build and configure your own router for the Shhh,t don’ tell anyone but Alex Handbrake, Stellarium, Gnome geeky buzz and benefits, improved VPN security and total control.