GO FASTER 12 PROJECTS Get into quantum Back up to the cloud, FREE 4.7GB computing today! create flexible notes DOWNLOAD READY TO BOOT UBUNTU 18.04 ZORIN OS SLAX &MORE The #1 open source mag Full install and upgrade guide Customise the new desktop Get started in minutes! Pi User RUNAFULLY BLOWN ATARI ST GET STARTED WITH THE ARDUINO Thomas Sigdestad on using ENJOY WINDOWS browsers as operating systems APPS ON YOUR Pi BETTER WEBSITES DOCKER MADE EASY The best open source Containers make releasing to build your next site and using software a snap! WELCOME Subscribe FREE GIFT &save! On digital and print WHO WE ARE – see p22 This issue we asked our experts: Ubuntu 18.04 has arrived! Are you going to upgrade? Are you not? Tell the readers Paint the town orange your thoughts – and show your working! I for one am genuinely excited by the latest release of Ubuntu. Canonical is Jonni Bidwell no stranger to controversial I risked my work machine’s health and my decisions, but it feels recent moves own continued productivity/sanity by – switching back to Gnome, installing the daily image we used on our disc. abandoning convergence devices These are the sacrifices I’m willing to make to – have enabled it to focus on the ensure you glorious readers have a smooth core job of making Ubuntu as good coverdi disc experience. i I’ve been keeping the image up to date as possible. and actually really like the new Ubuntu. But I still prefer Arch… Despite its comical Bionic Beaver codename, Ubuntu 18.04 will stand as the foundational basis for a Nick Peers plethora of Linux distros with support Despite the name (Bionic Beaver? Really?), reaching out for five years. An untold number of servers will rely on its I shall be updating to Ubuntu 18.04. I’ll also stability and support, while this release delivers the smallest footprint be taking a fresh backup before doing so, yet from its minimal install. because borked upgrades never end well and On page 30 Linux Format’s own Bionic Bidwell will guide you I’d prefer the security of a flawless roll-back through a smooth upgrade from older versions, a smooth install from optionti rather th thanth having to unpick or reinstall from scratch. scratch and a smooth guide around the all-important new features. In the background the kernel moves to 4.15 (so including the essential Spectre and Meltdown patches), the new Gnome desktop is now the Les Pounder default new look, Wayland is an experimental option and there’s a Ubuntu 18.04 is out and will I be upgrading? host of updated programs. The rest of 2018 will see all the Ubuntu- Well, yes. My trusty Lenovo X220 has been based distro updated in turn: we’re expecting Linux Mint 19 to be the rocking 16.04 since release and I’m ready to next big update and as you’d expect, we’ll be covering that in-depth embrace the new. I’m most looking forward when it happens. to the new-look Nautilus file manager Of course, there’s a vast world of open source outside of the because I spend so much time in there. Ubuntu world and we’re covering as much of it as we possibly can in the rest of the issue. If you’re thinking of building a new PC, we test the new budget AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with its integrated graphics capable Mayank Sharma of 1080p gaming at a bargain price. Don’t miss our look at how you Since Neil hasn’t asked me to review it, I’m can try quantum computing now, from the comfort of your own home. going to give this one a pass. The new We explore open source content management systems, create desktop theme has been pushed to the multiple Wordpress sites, explore container technology, run classic autumn release, so it’ll just be more of the Atari St systems, sort out your tasks and loads more, so enjoy! same on the desktop front. Shashank Sharma I find more and more distributions pandering only to their existing user base. Sometimes, barely at that. I see no reason to crowd my Arch installation with Ubuntu 18.04. That Neil Mohr Editor said, should the need arise, I can always [email protected] make room for anotherano virtual machine. But it’s unlikely for said VM to last as long as the typical Ubuntu release cycle. www.techradar.com/pro/linux June 2018 LXF237 3 FREE GIFT SUBSCRIBE NOW! Contents page 22 REVIEWS Intel Optane SSD 800p 17 Is this the affordable SSD from Intel we’ve all been waiting for? Probably not because of its M.2 interface, but it’s certainly affordable and has I/O off the charts! The next LTS release of Ubuntu is here! Install, upgrade, tweak and enjoy the new features… or just tear your hair out – all on page 30! AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 18 A graphics-packing quad-core processor that appears to be the dream match for anyone wanting to build a budget gaming PC – if it works on Linux, that is… Zentyal 5.1 19 Point releases that are a year in the making are enough reason to interest Shashank Sharma. But is his curiosity misplaced with this wannabe commercial server distro? MX Linux 17.1 20 If what Shashank Sharma expects from a distribution is Goliath, MX Linux is definitely David, with possibly the easiest and slickest distro of 2018 so far. Before the Storm 21 ROUNDUP INTERVIEW Donning a hoody, a face full of spots and mooching around the train tracks, Philippa Warr fits in well with the Linux Format team as she tackles this teen-angst simulator. Content management systems 24 Ready to carve your own space on the interwebs, but can’t decide on which CMS to use? Shashank Sharma has some open Jonni Bidwell talks progressive web apps with source suggestions… Enonic founder Thomas Sigdestad 38 4 LXF237 June 2018 www.linuxformat.com CONTENTS ON YOUR RASPBERRY Pi USER FREE DVD Ubuntu 18.04 ‘RC’ Zorin OS 12.3 Pi news 49 Slax 9.4.0 A new Raspberry Fields event, even more Page 96 JAMs around the country and the intriguing Museum in a Box project. Exagear desktop 50 Run Windows programs on your Pi desktop. “Heresy!” shouts no one in this day and age. Maker Life: Getting You Started Kit 51 Alex Cox tests the painless plug-and-play TUTORIALS Pi programming package for the rest of us. Ardunio serial connections 52 TERMINAL: Moreutils 58 Les Pounder shows us that the Raspberry A lesser-known collection of Unix tools to Pi and Arduino can be best friends and increase productivity on the terminal work together on a project. sounds exciting to Shashank Sharma. Atari ST emulation 54 CHERRYTREE: Get organised 60 Nick Peers travels back in time to reveal Bobby Moss is here to help your thoughts how to transform your Pi into a fully fledged blossom into tasty ideas that you can Atari ST machine and run his old floppies. garnish your delicious projects with. LEDE: Embedded Wordpress 62 CODING ACADEMY Combine the LEDE framework, a cheap router, a little ingenuity and you can have your own development server. Hugo site generator 88 Mihalis Tsoukalos teaches you how to DOCKER: Virtual apps 66 use the Hugo Framework – developed It took a lot of convincing for a lethargic using Google Go – to create a secure web Mayank Sharma to power off his virtual sites with static files. machines and learn to virtualise apps. WordPress multi-site 92 BACKUP: Custom cloud 72 Get equipped with the tools to create and Brian Mork walks you through a custom clone multiple sites for enhanced site cloud system with backup and recovery management, with Kent Elchuk pushing procedures, security and usability options. you over every obstacle. SYSADMIN: Using nftables 76 We wonder about AMD security and then REGULARS AT A GLANCE dive into using Nftables all with the calm, soothing guidance of Valentine Sinitsyn. News 6 Subscriptions 22 Google, Java, Android and API law, what the IN-DEPTH heck Oracle?! Crazed EU copyright Back issues 70 proposals, naughty Symantec GPL antics, Valve updates Steam OS and Mint Box 2. Overseas subs 71 Quantum computing 44 Locked in his super-cooled computing Mailserver 10 HotPicks 81 basement Mats Tage Axelsson explains International Linux install day, installing Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got time to run how mere mortals can get working with beside Windows, install Node-RED, around his house, checking that all of his literally the coolest tech around… installing on Dells. Everyone’s installing us. door handles are clean, because he’s too busy checking for the best FOSS Linux user groups 13 such as Gnome, Amarok, Shotwell, Les Pounder gets jiggy with his micro:bit RawTherapee, Krita, Krunner-translator, over in Leeds City Centre. Heimer, Stacer, Qsoundrec, Tower game and Battle for Wesnoth. Answers 14 Replacing the MacOS toolchain, fixing Your Free DVD 96 spellchecker issues, updating to the latest Ubuntu release, and NAS or VPN options? Next month 98 www.techradar.com/pro/linux June 2018 LXF237 5 Newsdesk THIS ISSUE: Google vs Oracle EU copyright reforms Symantec busted! Valve commits to Linux New Mintbox Nvidia kills 32-bit SOFTWARE APIS Google vs Oracle: the struggle is real! Recent court ruling sides with Oracle, but there are far widerimplicationsandwe’venotseenthelastofthisfight. he battle between Google and Oracle decision is going to create a significant shift in over whether Google used Oracle’s how software is developed worldwide… It really T intellectual property when using Java to means that copyright in this context has teeth… build the Android platform has added a new Sometimes free is not really free.” chapter to the sorry tale, with an appeals court Google wasn’t happy with the ruling and said recently siding with Oracle.