| by Scott Kilroy

An accessible Arch Linux derivative

As an outgrowth of the now-defunct Antergos community, EndeavorOS offers a customizable Arch Linux derivative that’s easy to install with the added benefit of community support.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Valuations and Values

Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen stirred up a lot of trouble for her former company with her recent appearance on Capital Hill. A vivid picture of Facebook’s internal culture came to light in her recent testimony. One of the more disturbing revel…

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| by Scott Kilroy

Parse the systemd journal with QJournalctl

QJournalctl is a convenient GUI tool that will help you track down log data in the systemd journal.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-11-28 04:03:08

Ubuntu 21.10 and EndeavourOS 2021.08.27

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| by Scott Kilroy

Merging file systems for a simple NAS with MergerFS

MergerFS is a simple tool for bunching together disks, volumes, and arrays.

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| by Scott Kilroy

A beautiful web radio for a living room music system

An LCD in an unusual format, a self-designed housing, and matching software make a simple Raspberry Pi web radio the perfect centerpiece for any living room.

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| by Scott Kilroy

TDE: Museum Piece or Modern Desktop Alternative?

Trinity Desktop Environment’s latest release may seem like a trip back in time due to archaic features, but it does offer a functional desktop for modern computing and, more importantly, freedom of choice.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-11-28 04:02:53

This month in Linux Voice.

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| by Scott Kilroy

A modern search tool

As the latest successor to locate, plocate produces some of the quickest search results possible on any system.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-11-28 04:02:47

This month Graham reviews Bela, Quickemu, GPU-Viewer, Maestral, Termux and AnLinux, Space Cadet, and more!

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| by Scott Kilroy

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-11-28 04:02:40

The month Zack Brown reports on wonky typecasting.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Stress testing for temperature on a home NAS

Using stress, lm-sensors, and hddtemp to sort out temperature and reliability related issues with a home-based NAS box.

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| by Scott Kilroy

The sys admin’s daily grind: ASN

When digging into BGP routing information, Charly avoids the highway through parameter hell thanks to the ASN tool. In addition to a system’s AS number, ASN delivers other information, such as its peering partners upstream and downstream.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Continuous shooting for detailed photography

The combination of a web camera, Raspberry Pi, and simple software facilitates miniature tabletop photography.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Privacy with a Home Server

FreedomBox offers a private, secure personal server that is now available on more platforms and with its own base system from Olimex.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Replacing Android with LineageOS

Breathe new life into your old smartphone: The TWRP recovery image and the free Android offshoot LineageOS let you install the latest security updates every week.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Synchronize and back up data with FreeFileSync

Many users still fail to back up important data. FreeFileSync automatically synchronizes specified folders to multiple storage media on demand.

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| by Scott Kilroy

Linux on a smartphone with PostmarketOS

The mobile Linux distribution PostmarketOS is a fork of Alpine Linux that supports around a dozen user interfaces.

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| by Arround The Web

Distribution Kit for Mobile Phones NemoMobile 0.7 Released

After more than a year of development, an updated distribution kit for mobile phones NemoMobile 0.7 version was released, using the developments of the Mer project, but based on the ManjaroArm project. The system image size for Pine Phone is 740 MB. Al…

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| by Arround The Web

Amazon Linux 2022 Launched, Completely Re-based with Fedora

Amazon Linux 2022 is to be based upon Fedora Linux and available via AWS AMIs. Read on as we wrap up the announcement and express our views about this change in terms of the FOSS ecosystem.
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