Most distros now use Systemd to manage system services. These are programs that run in the background, providing on-demand features. Examples include the CUPS printing system, Wi-Fi management and many others. They’re controlled by “unit files” usual

Amazon Lumberyard (https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard) is yet another freely available 3D game engine that works in a similar manner to Unity Engine or Unreal Engine. It is based on the CryEngine, the engine used to create the Far Cry games among othe

The Sense HAT is packed with sensors for temperature, humidity, acceleration, orientation and air pressure. And we have a great RGB LED matrix and a joystick that can be used in our projects. To control the Sense HAT we used Python, but we can also u

Socket: AM4 Arch: Zen 3, 64-bit Cores: Six Threads: 12 Process: 7nm TSMC Clock: 3.7GHz (4.6GHz turbo) Cache: L1 384KB, L2 3MB, L3 32MB Memory: 128MB max, two-channels, DDR4 3200MHz, non-ECC PCIe: v4.0, 20 lanes TDP: 65W Cooler: Wraith Steal

Top is a program that provides a real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of processes or threads currently being managed by the Linux kernel. Running top with the command line option -H followed

Get all the code and example files from the LXFDVD and more easily from the LXF archive: https:// linuxformat. com/archives. The gcc linker understands all about linking with the glibc standard C library. It uses the gnu linker ld to do its work, bu

During the research for this tutorial we needed to devise a means to detect a key press for the calculator application. Specifically we needed to know the values returned for the A,S,M and D keys. We could look this up on the internet, but what if th

Pygame www.pygame.org is a Python extension library that adds functionality on top of the SDL library. Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and grap

Floating nodes make it possible to create content that isn’t connected to anything else – think of them like post-it notes. Creating one is simple – hold Ctrl and double-click the area of the map where you’d like your floating node to appear. Choos

Chang S Bae (Intel) posted an RFC (Request For Comment) patch series implementing support for a forthcoming “Key Locker” feature on certain Intel x86 CPUs. This is supposed to provide “a mechanism to protect a data encryption key when processing the

Over 300 free curriculum-mapped video lessons now available via the Oak National Academy. Over recent years the Raspberry Pi Foundation has been a key factor in driving practical computing back into school curriculums both in the UK and around the w

Like it or not, a lot of authentication uses Active Directory (AD) to manage users and resources. It’s a staple of the Windows world and until recently (Samba 4) there was no way to have a complete AD stack in FOSS to “talk proper AD”. Luckily, with

Perhaps you’re a complete beginner, and you’re wondering where to start with game development on Linux? In terms of the computer kit that you need, you should be keeping an eye out for a hardware setup that can handle the type of game that you’d like

Jonni’s been arguing with me this issue – he thinks Linux Format readers don’t need virtual machine orchestration. Of course, as always, he’s right, but I’ve never let being wrong stop me before… Just because you don’t actually “need” something doesn