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Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon Edition and Garuda Linux KDE Dr460nized Edition

The latest challenge to copyleft

GitHub’s Copilot takes code autocompletion to a new level but raises copyleft licensing issues.

The sys admin’s daily grind: Customizing Vim

Working with the infamous Vim is part of every sys admin’s daily work. Charly spices up the veteran editor with personal settings for syntax highlighting and indentations.

Customizing screen resolutions with xrandr

You can boost productivity on an old laptop using xrandr to quickly and easily gain some extra screen real estate.

Don’t recycle your ePaper: repurpose that old eReader

Create a kiosk display from an old eReader to show data culled from Home Automation, Raspberry Pis, and Arduinos.

A kanban-based workflow management system

Wekan lets self-organzing teams manage a project’s workflow by tracking task ownership and progress visually.

EndeavourOS 2021.08 is Here With a New ISO Release

EndeavourOS 2021.08 brings massive improvements to the Calamares installer and introduces a new app called eos-apps-info. Learn about the new release here.
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Create a custom Raspberry Pi OS image

A few simple steps let you create a preconfigured Raspberry Pi operating system that lets you cut the time required to burn and configure your OS images.

Fast tools for checking disk utilization

Three modern tools, gdu, godu, and duf, make the task of checking the utilization level of hard disks easier thanks to fast execution speed and a good graphical implementation.

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-08-30 14:00:41

This month in Linux Voice.

Preventing computer eye strain

If you work or study from a home office, you probably sit at your computer for hours without a break. Safe Eyes reminds you to take regular breaks and take care of your eyes.

Remove unnecessary files with Czkawka

Czkawka helps find and remove duplicate and obsolete files to free up valuable disk space.

Breathe life back into your old Chromebook with GalliumOS

A tailor-made image like GalliumOS "Bismuth" will keep your Chromebook healthy after its expiration date.

Track down race conditions with Go

If program parts running in parallel keep interfering with each other, you may have a race condition. Mike Schilli shows how to instruct the Go compiler to detect these conditions and how to avoid them in the first place.

Cookie Fight

Back in the May 2021 issue, I reported on Google’s effort to replace third-party tracking cookies with a new alternative they call Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). New developments have added new folds of interest to this story.

A new slim-line laptop

We test a new entrant in the world of slim and lightweight Linux-powered laptops.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 29th, 2021

This has been an amazing week for Linux, which turned 30 years old (here’s to you, Linux!), as we saw the release of Linux 5.14 as the next major kernel series, new Linux distro releases like Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, LibreELEC 10, and Escuelas Linux 7.1, and big new software releases like OpenShot 2.6 and Qt […]

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How to Configure Two-Node High Availability Cluster On RHEL/CentOS 7.6

This article will help you learn how to setup and configure a High-Availability (HA) cluster on Linux/Unix-based systems. Cluster is nothing but a group of computers (called nodes/members) to work together to execute a task. Basically there are four types of clusters available, which are Storage Cluster, High-availability Cluster, Load-balancing Cluster, and HIGH-Performance Computing Cluster. […]

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Bash Heredoc Tutorial For Beginners

When working with Bash scripts, you may end up in a situation where you have to process a series of inputs using the same command. Fortunately, there is a way in Bash to achieve this in a more optimal way using HereDoc. HereDoc, an acronym for Here Document, is an input redirection method to pass multiple […]

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