Issue #255 / Feb 2022

If you don't speak fluent Ethernet, it sometimes helps to get a graphical view of what your network is doing. Skydive offers visual insights that could reveal complex error patterns.

Many users wish Ubuntu had a free and easily accessible user-driven package repository like Arch's AUR. Pacstall steps into the gap.

The Elixir programming language on a Raspberry Pi lets you create distributed projects in just a few lines of code.

Convert a Raspberry Pi 400 into a retro computer that behaves like the popular Amiga 500.

This month in Linux Voice.

Computer architectures from the 1960s and 1970s are given new life via modern kits.

Kdenlive plays to its strengths when editing larger video projects and also helps users create appealing slideshows with impressive effects.

If you want to exchange files over the local network, you do not necessarily have to set up a file server such as Samba. A number of handy tools let you drag and drop to send files.

This month Graham looks at Plasma System Monitor, projectM audio visualizer, yt-dlg downloader GUI, and more.

Prettymaps combines multiple Python libraries to make it easy to draw maps straight from the OpenStreetMap database.