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Welcome to the latest issue of Full Circle
Another full house this month with Python, Micro This Micro That, Latex, Stable Diffusion, and Inkscape.
We're bulging with reviews this month. We start, of course, with Ubuntu 24.04, move on to DSL 2024 (that's 'Damn Small Linux' for you youngsters out there) then Ubuntu Mate and Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10. As you can see, Adam has been a busy boy! Interesting to see DSL making a reappearance in 2024. Back in the day, DSL took up a whopping 50MB and would boot on pretty much anything. Is it still relevant these days? I think so. There are still a lot of PC's out there that are 32-bit, have small hard drives, and not so much memory.
Elsewhere, I've written up a piece about my latest toy: Meshtastic. It's a free, open source, project that you install on a cheap device and it lets you send text messages by radio. No internet or phone signal required. I've managed to send text messages over a mile and a half with it in a city environment. Of course, any nearby devices can be used to relay messages in a mesh.
Don't forget: we have a Table of Contents which lists every article from every issue of FCM. Huge thanks to Paul Romano for maintaining: https://goo.gl/tpOKqm and, if you're looking for some help, advice, or just a chinwag: remember that we have a Telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/24ec1oMFO1ZjZDc0. I hope to see you there. Come and say hello.
All the best! Ronnie ronnie@fullcirclemagazine.org