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Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #172 - August 2021 VIE RE W U B 4 U .0 N 1 T 2 U UNITY PPRRIINNTTIINNGG MAKE YOUR OWN PRINT SERVER full circle magazine #172 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.20 Linux News p.04 Eternal Terminal p.24 Command & Conquer p.18 ... p.XX Everyday Ubuntu p.35 Making Print Server p.26 Ubuntu Devices p.XX The Daily Waddle p.34 Micro This Micro That p.37 p.XX My Opinion p.XX Letters p.XX Review p.47 Inkscape p.30 Q&A p.52 Review p.XX Ubuntu Games p.56 Graphics The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 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Absent this month is Latex as Erik was busy with some real world stuff. Filling in are pieces on Eternal Terminal and one on making your own network print server. Elsewhere, we have a review of Ubuntu Unity 21.04 which rounds off the series of 21.04 reviews from Adam. But fear not! I installed Linux Lite on my old laptop and I'm hoping to have a review of that next month. Fingers crossed! Don't forget: if you're looking for some help, advice, or just a chit chat: remember, we have a Telegram group. I mention this as I've been giving out the wrong link in a couple of emails. The Find Full Circle on: (new and updated) link is: https://t.me/joinchat/24ec1oMFO1ZjZDc0. I hope to see you there. Come facebook.com/ and say hello. fullcirclemagazine Anyway, stay safe, and all the best for 2021! twitter.com/#!/fullcirclemag Ronnie http://issuu.com/ [email protected] fullcirclemagazine https://mastodon.social/ @fullcirclemagazine 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 #172 3 contents ^ NNEEWWSS Submitted by ErikTheUnready HAIKU R1 BETA 3: system is directly based on BeOS 5 ports (it can determine known stream format on the fly and use technologies and is aimed at binary protocols whose handlers accept plug-ins, making it possible to 07/26/2021 compatibility with applications for connections on non-standard transparently redirect the audio this OS. Minimum hardware network ports, for example, if http stream to another machine. fter a year of development, the requirement: CPU Pentium II and is sent not from port 80, or, PulseAudio code is distributed A third beta release of the Haiku 384 MB RAM (Intel Core i3 and 2 GB conversely, when which they try to under the LGPL 2.1+ license. R1 operating system has been RAM recommended). camouflage other network activity Supports Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, published. The project was as http by running on port 80). OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, originally created in response to RELEASE OF NDPI 4.0 DEEP macOS and Windows. the shutdown of BeOS and https://www.ntop.org/ndpi/ PACKET INSPECTION SYSTEM developed under the name : introducing-ndpi-4-0-dpi-for- https://lists.freedesktop.org/ OpenBeOS, but was renamed in cybersecurity-and-traffic-analysis/ archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2021- 07/27/2021 2004 due to claims related to the July/032099.html use of the BeOS trademark in the he ntop project, which develops PULSEAUDIO 15.0 SOUND name. Several bootable Live images tools for capturing and SERVER RELEASED RELEASE OF OPNSENSE (x86, x86-64) have been prepared T : analyzing traffic, has published a to evaluate the performance of the 21.7: release of the nDPI 4.0 deep packet 07/28/2021 new release. The source code for inspection toolkit, which continues 07/29/2021 most of the Haiku OS is distributed the development of the OpenDPI he PulseAudio 15.0 sound under the free MIT license, with the library. The nDPI project was server, which acts as an PNsense 21.7 is out, which is a exception of some libraries, media T founded after an unsuccessful intermediary between applications fork of the pfSense project, codecs and components borrowed O attempt to push changes to an and various low-level sound created with the aim of forming a from other projects. unattended OpenDPI repository. subsystems, abstracting the work completely open distribution that The nDPI code is written in C and is with the equipment. PulseAudio could function at the level of Haiku OS is focused on personal licensed under the LGPLv3 license. allows you to control the volume commercial solutions for deploying computers, uses its own kernel, and mixing of sound at the level of firewalls and network gateways. built on a modular architecture, The project allows you to individual applications, organize the Unlike pfSense, the project is optimized for high responsiveness determine the application-level input, mixing and output of sound positioned as not controlled by one to user actions and efficient protocols used in traffic by in the presence of several input and company, developed with the direct execution of multithreaded analyzing the nature of network output channels or sound cards, participation of the community and applications. An object-oriented API activity without binding to network allows you to change the audio has a completely transparent is presented for developers. The full circle magazine #172 4 contents ^ NEWS development process, as well as arrays stored in the form of an RELEASE OF SIDUCTION with the Debian Unstable providing the opportunity to use associative array (hash). The release repository as of July 28th. In Xorg any of its developments in third- of Cassandra 4.0 is considered 2021.2: and noX builds, as well as in the party products, including ready for production and has second build with Plasma 5.22.4, by 07/29/2021 commercial ones. The source code already been tested on Amazon, default, the iwd daemon is used to of the distribution's components, as Apple, DataStax, Instaclustr, iland connect to the wireless network he Siduction 2021.2 project, well as the tools used for building, and Netflix infrastructures with instead of wpa_supplicant (in other which develops a desktop- are distributed under the BSD clusters of more than 1000 nodes. T builds, iwd is provided as an oriented Linux distribution, built on license. Assemblies are prepared in The project code is written in Java option). the Debian Sid (unstable) package the form of a LiveCD and a system and is distributed under the Apache base, was released. Siduction is a image for writing to Flash drives 2.0 license. The DBMS allows you to https://siduction.org/2021/07/ fork of Aptosid that spun off in July (422 MB). create fault-tolerant storages: the release-notes-for-siduction-2021-2- 2011. The key difference from data placed in the database is 0/ Aptosid is the use of a newer The base distribution is based automatically replicated to several version of KDE from the on the HardenedBSD code, which nodes of the distributed network, experimental Qt-KDE repository as OPEN SOURCE ORBITER maintains a synchronized fork of which can span different data a user environment, as well as fresh FreeBSD, which integrates centers. If a node fails, its functions SPACE FLIGHT SIMULATOR: versions of Xfce, LXDE, Cinnamon additional protection mechanisms are picked up on the fly by other and LXQt (GNOME and MATE are and techniques for countering nodes. Adding new nodes to the 08/01/2021 skipped due to the lack of exploitation of vulnerabilities. cluster and updating the Cassandra maintainers), as well as a version is done on the fly, without he Orbiter Space Flight minimalistic X.Org assembly based https://forum.opnsense.org/ additional manual intervention and T Simulator project has been on the Fluxbox window manager index.php?topic=24112.0 reconfiguration of other nodes. announced, offering a realistic and the "noX" assembly, supplied space flight simulator that complies without a graphical environment https://blogs.apache.org/ with the laws of Newtonian physics. APACHE CASSANDRA 4.0 IS for users who wish to build their foundation/entry/the-apache- The motivation for opening the own system. AVAILABLE: cassandra-project-releases code is the desire to provide the community with the opportunity to In the new release, the versions 07/29/2021 SEE - continue the development of the of the KDE Plasma 5.20.5 desktops https://www.youtube.com/watch? project after the author has been have been updated, LXQt 0.16.0, he Apache Software Foundation v=kOf29M8qFts unable to develop for several years T has presented Apache Cinnamon 4.8.6.2, Xfce 4.16 and for personal reasons.