| by Scott Kilroy

Build a complete game with the Godot game engine

Creating a game requires a wide set of skills to combine graphics, animations, sound, double-clicks, and meticulous coding. The free and open source Godot game engine provides you with all the tools you need to get started.

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Stream processing made easy with Apache StreamPipes

You don’t need to be a stream processing expert to create useful custom solutions with Apache StreamPipes. We’ll use StreamPipes to build a simple app that calculates when the International Space Station will fly overhead.

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Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-02-02 15:49:43

This month in Linux Voice.

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Arch Linux

Arch Linux, one of the more popular Linux distros, goes its own way, putting you in control.

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Perform basic system checks with checksecurity

Linux offers users a wide range of options for system configuration. With the help of the checksecurity tool collection, you can automatically monitor basic system settings.

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Sparkling gems and new releases from the world of Free and Open Source Software

Graham looks at the PlotJuggler 3 data visualizer, note taking with Xournal++, the KStars planetarium, and more!

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Chroot jails made simpler

Setting up chroot jails is no simple task. Jailkit can make this job a little easier by automating setup and configuration.

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Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-02-02 15:49:10

This month in Kernel News: Spanking Linus; Controlling Boot Parameters via Sysfs; Finessing GCC; and Dealing with Loose Build Dependencies.

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Understanding data stream processing

Batch processing strategies won’t help if you need to process large volumes of incoming data in real time. Stream processing is a promising alternative to conventional batch techniques.

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Gnome extension with a tiling function

The Gnome extension Material Shell organizes the windows on your desktop, giving you many options for smoothly switching between different applications and views.

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Exploring the kernel’s mysterious Kconfig configuration system

The Kconfig configuration system makes it easy to configure and customize the Linux kernel. But how does it work? We’ll take a deep dive inside Kconfig.

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Smartphone-based two-factor authentication

Protect your system from unwanted visitors with two-factor authentication.

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Seeking Solid Ground

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, has spent the past few years working on a vision for a new and better Internet. He showed up at the Reuters Next conference recently and gave an update.

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Free software trends and events

Among other noteworthy trends in 2020, producing free and secure videoconferencing software has become a higher priority in the past year.

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A 64-bit Raspberry Pi with 8GB of RAM and USB boot

The Raspberry Pi 4 equipped with 8GB of RAM is the top end of this popular small-board computer. A 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS and the ability to boot from storage devices connected over USB are also just around the corner.

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Bulk renaming in a single pass with Go

Renaming multiple files following a pattern often requires small shell scripts. Mike Schilli looks to simplify this task with a Go program.

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AlmaLinux Beta Released, the CentOS Replacement Is Ready for Testing

AlmaLinux is released in beta with most RHEL packages and is ready for community testing.

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5 Most Notable Open Source Centralized Log Management Tools

Reliable log monitoring and management system is crucial in troubleshooting when there’s a system failure or an application behaves weirdly.

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Linux Malware Kobalos Backdoors Supercomputers

The malware has attacked supercomputers, high performance computer (HPC) clusters, and more.

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Red Hat Expands Free RHEL to Quell CentOS Kerfuffle

Free RHEL offering will expand to 16 servers while allowing production workloads.

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