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Ktube Media Downloader lets you download YouTube videos easily on Linux  Technology Zimbabwe

LibreOffice is my productivity application of choice. It's one of the most potent reasons for recommending Linux distributions to educators and students, whether PK-12 or higher education. Now that the school year is upon us, I thought I would recommend some LibreOffice shortcuts and tips that might save you valuable time.

Work faster with keyboard shortcuts

I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Here are the most common shortcuts that apply to all LibreOffice applications.

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Logical Volume Manager (LVM) allows for a layer of abstraction between the operating system and the hardware. Normally, your OS looks for disks (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and so on) and partitions within those disks (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, and so on).

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The post How to Install SQL Server in RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

On March 7, 2016, Microsoft announced the introduction of the MS SQL server in Linux systems. The goal was to deliver more flexibility for users and to do away with vendor lock-in with the

The post How to Install SQL Server in RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa point releases generally come every two weeks but for the past month have fallen off the wagon. Mesa 21.2.1 came in mid-August and on Tuesday was finally succeeded by Mesa 21.2.2 as a "late and very large" update...

DOS Subsystem for Linux: run Linux on DOS – OSnews  OS News

More than three years after X.Org Server 1.20 was released, it's set to finally be succeeded soon by X.Org Server 21.1 under its new versioning scheme. Out today is the X.org Server 21.1 release candidate...

Linux Foundation says companies are desperate for open source talent  Ars Technica

1. Linux Foundation says companies are desperate for open source talent  Ars Technica
2. More Open Source Jobs Remain Vacant With Scarcity of Skilled Linux Talent  TechNewsWorld
3. Enterprise Open Source Job Applicant Shortage Persists in 2021, Linux Foundation Survey Finds  EnterpriseAI
4. Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets  The Register
5. Linux Foundation: Open Source Hiring a Top Priority  WebProNews
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AMDGPU Linux Driver To Overhaul Its Approach To Device Enumeration  Phoronix

AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are working to overhaul how the initial driver loading with device enumeration happens to ultimately make it more robust. In the process though PCI IDs become less important and in turn less of an avenue for exposing possible indicators of new graphics cards...

Cycles X as a modernizing of Blender's Cycles rendering engine has now landed in the latest development code for Blender 3.0. Cycles X brings big performance improvements but does eliminate OpenCL support in the process...

How to Reboot Your Linux PC or Server With a Single Command  MUO - MakeUseOf

Chrome 94 is available today as another exciting update for Google's web browser...

World-Class Cyber Protection Available for Rocky Linux Users  PRNewswire

World-Class Cyber Protection Available for Rocky Linux Users  Johnson City Press (subscription)

Oracle engineers have been working on "gprofng" as a next-generation GNU Profiler that can analyze production binaries. Oracle talked up Gprofng today during the GNU Tools Track as part of Linux Plumbers Conference 2021...

The Linux Foundation announced today they will be hosting the PaSh project that is focused on automatically parallelizing POSIX shell scripts...

Linux: manage software packages with Bauh  Market Research Telecast

How to Generate Temporary Email Addresses Using the Linux Terminal  MUO - MakeUseOf