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The long-awaited Tesseract 5.0 is now available as a big update to this leading open-source, optical character recognition (OCR) engine that via neural networks offers great accuracy and supports more than 100 languages for turning images of text into actual text...

NixOS is an original Linux distribution built atop its own unique Nix package manager that is focused on being functional, reliable, and reproducible. The Nix package manager concept is great but somewhat ironic is the new NixOS 21.11 release not even shipping with the latest Nix package manager version due to known regressions...

Version 1.7 of the Julia programming language implementation is now available, the open-source high-performance language that is general purpose but especially popular for computational science and numerical analysis...

Sick of Windows? How to find and install software on Linux with Ubuntu  TechRepublic

The Audacity sound editor is one of those open source applications that filled a niche that seemingly nobody else realized existed. Initially developed at Carnegie Mellon University at a time when many people still thought computers were just for office and schoolwork, and you required special DSP peripherals for serious multimedia work. Audacity recognized that, occasionally, the average computer user needed to edit audio. The Audacity team has consistently provided an open source application for recording and cleaning up sound in the two decades since.

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How to Mount network shares on Linux Automatically  BollyInside

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SSH banner warnings are necessary when companies or organizations want to display a stern warning to discourage unauthorized parties from accessing a server. These warnings are displayed just before the password prompt so that

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Running Octoprint On A PinePhone Turns Out To Be Pretty Easy  Hackaday

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With another month of the pandemic in the books, here is a look back at the exciting Linux and open-source highlights that came about during the course of November. This month was particularly exciting for new Linux kernel developments, never-ending work on open-source graphics drivers, the much anticipated launch of Intel 12th Gen "Alder Lake", gamers continuing to clamor for the Steam Deck, and much more...

Alder Lake, Kernel Optimizations & Steam Deck Happenings That Excited Linux Fans  Phoronix

Earlier this year OpenPrinting took over development of the CUPS print server with Apple no longer interested in handling the future development of this open-source Linux/macOS/Unix/Solaris print server. Out this week is CUPS 2.4 as the first major release under the guidance of OpenPrinting...

FPGA SoC modules gain networking carrier and new PolarFire SoC model  LinuxGizmos.com

How to Create and Execute Bash Scripts in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Create and Execute Bash Scripts in Linux  MakeUseOf

How to check if packages in RHEL-based Linux distributions have been patched for specific CVEs  TechRepublic

What Is OpenBSD? Everything You Need to Know  MakeUseOf

New Linux Foundation Project Accelerates Collaboration on Container Systems Between Enterprise and HPC Environments  HPCwire

Linux Foundation Hosts Project for Container Collaboration Between Enterprise and HPC - insideHPC  insideHPC

Early patches providing for IO_uring zero-copy send support for the Linux kernel's networking subsystem is looking extremely promising for greater throughput...