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The Raspberry Pi is one of the most popular brands of single-board computers. Part of the reason for this popularity is the massive number of unique and interesting projects that people have built using Raspberry Pi. Several Opensource.com authors have used Raspberry Pi in various projects and provided instructions so others can recreate their projects. Here are the ten most popular Raspberry Pi articles published by Opensource.com in 2021. I hope they inspire you as you tinker with your own Raspberry Pi.

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Whether you celebrate Christmas or not (our family does, as it happens), this time of year is one where presents are often given and received. I thought it might be nice to think about what presents we could give in the spirit of open source.

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There are many great synthesizers for Linux, and like synthesizers in real life, most of them can be controlled using the MIDI protocol.

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7 Reasons Why I Use Pop!_OS Linux Distro as My Daily Driver  It's FOSS

How to install Linux on Windows PC  BollyInside

Linux 5.16 Has A Nice Performance Gift For AMD Ryzen Laptops With Radeon Graphics  Phoronix

For those making use of integrated Radeon Vega-based graphics with modern Ryzen laptops at least, the Linux 5.16 kernel is offering some nice performance gains noticed recently as part of the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U benchmarking with the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen2. Here is a look at the AMD Radeon Graphics performance for that Zen 3 laptop across varying Mesa and Linux kernel versions while then expanding the comparison to multiple devices given the Linux 5.16 performance boost.

The 9 Best Distraction-Free Writing Apps for Linux to Help You Focus  MUO - MakeUseOf

11 Most Popular Linux distros of the year 2021- To use in 2022  Linux Shout

Happy Holidays / Merry Christmas From Phoronix & Preparing For 2022  Phoronix

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and/or cheers to any end-of-year celebrations you may partake in. The daily original content on Phoronix will continue each day just as it has been for years without any single day interruption but there is also a holiday Phoronix Premium special for those wanting to help cap off 2021 and help ensure a successful 2022 for continued Linux benchmarking, performance testing, hardware reviews, and open-source news...

GNU Jami Taranis Released For Free Software Conferencing, Peer-To-Peer Communication  Phoronix

GNU Jami "Taranis" has been released as a major update to this free software project for peer-to-peer communication and SIP-based messaging. GNU Jami is what previously started out as SFLphone and then GNU Ring for initially being focused on softphones...

2 Ways to Install Homebrew on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  Linux Shout

2 Ways to Install Homebrew on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  H2S Media

Another aging Intel motherboard is now supported by Coreboot for those wanting to free your system down to the BIOS...

Just in time for dealing with any holiday photos, Darktable 3.8 is out today as the latest shiny feature update to this open-source RAW photography post-production software...

Opensource.com published well over 150 articles about Linux in 2021. From articles about small utilities for desktop Linux users to tutorials about working with Linux as a server operating system and everything in between, these articles have covered many facets of the Linux ecosystem. It is well worth your time to check out all of them, but here are ten great articles published this year to get you started.

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Intel on Thursday submitted a final drm-intel-gt-next pull of new material slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 5.17 cycle...

A wall of synth. That's what I dream of. Given the chance, on one wall of my office, I'd have a modular synthesizer that only Bob Moog himself could truly ever understand. Until I realize this dream, I make do with a very good approximation: Zyn-Fusion.

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