Linux Format Summer 2021

Jonni Bidwell Come to think of it, a live music and coding session with Sonic Pi would be somewhat engaging. Viewers could submit their own code snippets via git in near real-time, and probably a chaotic cacophony would ensue, but it would make for a good experiment. Nick Peers I would stream a heartfelt plea: how do I stop buying endless amounts of optical discs for personal streaming purposes? And then follow it up with a live stream showing me going through the process of ripping, converting, tagging and adding to my ever-growing Jellyfin/Plex libraries. Les Pounder For the past year Tom’s Hardware has streamed The Pi Cast, which is a Raspberry Pi-themed show using OBS to switch between shots for a virtual webcam. We can mix live video feeds,…

Jonni Bidwell Come to think of it, a live music and coding session with Sonic Pi would be somewhat engaging. Viewers could submit their own code snippets via git in near real-time, and probably a chaotic cacophony would ensue, but it would make for a good experiment. Nick Peers I would stream a heartfelt plea: how do I stop buying endless amounts of optical discs for personal streaming purposes? And then follow it up with a live stream showing me going through the process of ripping, converting, tagging and adding to my ever-growing Jellyfin/Plex libraries. Les Pounder For the past year Tom’s Hardware has streamed The Pi Cast, which is a Raspberry Pi-themed show using OBS to switch between shots for a virtual webcam. We can mix live video feeds, images and external devices into…

Live streaming isn’t a subject we touch upon much, which is bad when the world’s leading streaming software is open source under the GPL v2. That’ll be the Open Broadcaster Software aka OBS Studio and it started life as one man’s open source project. These days it’s sponsored by YouTube (owned by Google), Twitch (owned by Amazon) and a social networking site that we won’t mention. Of course, being open source means that you can apply it to almost any application you like. From streaming your Linux desktop to a Twitch channel, to compiling it for the Raspberry Pi and broadcasting your avian-based birdbox activity to a self-hosted open hosting platform. It’s down to you just how much in control you want to be. If you like to keep things…

Live streaming isn’t a subject we touch upon much, which is bad when the world’s leading streaming software is open source under the GPL v2. That’ll be the Open Broadcaster Software aka OBS Studio and it started life as one man’s open source project. These days it’s sponsored by YouTube (owned by Google), Twitch (owned by Amazon) and a social networking site that we won’t mention. Of course, being open source means that you can apply it to almost any application you like. From streaming your Linux desktop to a Twitch channel, to compiling it for the Raspberry Pi and broadcasting your avian-based birdbox activity to a self-hosted open hosting platform. It’s down to you just how much in control you want to be. If you like to keep things a little…

Microsoft has recently announced a new operating system: Windows 11 (https://bit.ly/LXF279Windows11). This has surprised many people: a few years ago the company was pretty adamant that Windows 10 would be the “last version of Windows” and would instead receive major updates every year. Windows 11 will be arriving towards the end of 2021. So, how will this affect Linux users? An increasing number of new machines will likely come with Windows 11 pre-installed, and while Microsoft has previously declared how much it loves Linux, it’s never been too fond of enabling other OSes to be installed alongside it, and there’s a concern that Windows 11 systems could make a dual-booting Linux setup more difficult to achieve. Microsoft released PC Health Check, to prepare users for the new OS. Many people…

Microsoft has recently announced a new operating system: Windows 11 (https://bit.ly/LXF279Windows11). This has surprised many people: a few years ago the company was pretty adamant that Windows 10 would be the “last version of Windows” and would instead receive major updates every year. Windows 11 will be arriving towards the end of 2021. So, how will this affect Linux users? An increasing number of new machines will likely come with Windows 11 pre-installed, and while Microsoft has previously declared how much it loves Linux, it’s never been too fond of enabling other OSes to be installed alongside it, and there’s a concern that Windows 11 systems could make a dual-booting Linux setup more difficult to achieve. Microsoft released PC Health Check, to prepare users for the new OS. Many people found their…