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

This month in Linux Voice.

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

The month Zack Brown reports on wonky typecasting.

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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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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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Continuous shooting for detailed photography

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to Install and Set Up Jenkins in FreeBSD 13

In this guide, learn how to install and configure Jenkins in a FreeBSD 13 Server. Jenkins is a popular open-source automation tool to perform continuous integration and build automation. Jenkins allows users to execute a predefined list of steps, e.g. to compile golang source code to build binary files. The trigger for this execution can […]

The post How to Install and Set Up Jenkins in FreeBSD 13 appeared first on Linux Today.

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How to Install and Configure NFS Server on Debian 11

NFS or Network File System is a network protocol that allows you to mount a remote filesystem through the network. For this tutorial, you will learn how to install and configure an NFS Server on the latest Debian 11 Bullseye.
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Alpine Linux 3.15 Released with Linux 5.15 LTS, Other Features

Alpine Linux 3.15 is here for users who want to use this security-oriented distribution on their computers. As you can imagine, this is a major update and the first release of Alpine Linux to be powered by the latest Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series. Highlights of this release include initial support for UEFI Secure Boot […]

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How to Install Animated Plymouth During Boot Process in Arch Linux

Read on for a tutorial on how you can install animated Plymouth during the boot process in Arch Linux.
The post How to Install Animated Plymouth During Boot Process in Arch Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

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BSD Release: GhostBSD 21.11.24

GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented, rolling release operating system based on FreeBSD. The project’s latest snapshot adds a new tool for tracking the version of the rolling release operating system. “This new ISO contains kernel, OS, and software updates….

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How to Compress the Whole Directory Using xz and tar

I compressed a directory having 37M size using both xz & zip. The zip file size was 31M, while the xz file was 16M after compression. Pretty impressive, isn’t it? Let us see how to compress the whole directory using xz and tar on Linux, macOS/*BSD/…

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