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When installing software on a Linux system is usually a smooth ride. In most cases, you would use a package manager such as apt, dnf, or Pacman to install it securely from your distribution’s

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How to Create Bootable Windows 11 USB Installer on Ubuntu Linux ( Instructions ) - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

I'm a Mutt user. I like viewing and composing emails in the convenience of my Linux terminal. With a lightweight and minimal client like Mutt, I know that I can have my email available regardless of system specifications or internet access. And because I have a Linux terminal open more often than not, my email client essentially has no footprint on my desktop real estate.

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Many of the documents you receive come in PDF format. Sometimes those PDFs need to be manipulated. For example, pages might need to be removed or added, or you might need to sign or change a specific page.

Whether good or bad, this is the reality we all live in.

There are some fancy graphical user interface tools that let you edit PDFs, but I have always been most comfortable with the command line. Of the many command-line tools for this task, the ones I use when I want to modify a PDF are qpdf and poppler-utils.

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Greg Kroah-Hartman on mailed in the USB/Thunderbolt changes targeting the Linux 5.14 merge window...

How do you ensure the stability of your Kubernetes (K8s) clusters? How do you know that your manifests are syntactically valid? Are you sure you don't have any invalid data types? Are any mandatory fields missing?

Most often, we become aware of these misconfigurations only at the worst time: when we're trying to deploy the new manifests.

Specialized tools and a "shift-left" approach make it possible to verify a Kubernetes schema before it's applied to a cluster. This article addresses how you can avoid misconfigurations and which tools are the best to use.

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Microsoft suspends SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta, recommends Linux instead  Neowin

Digital transformation doesn’t stop at just one product or solution. As your organization takes steps towards modernizing IT infrastructure, it’s worth thinking about the processes and people components as well. This month, see how Red Hat solutions helped three companies across the globe learn new ways of working and find success. 

There is now covid going around the BSDs... DragonFlyBSD has ported it from NetBSD...

There hasn't been a major X.Org Server release since v1.20 three years ago and not much interest in seeing a new release with more Linux distributions switching to Wayland-based desktops and XWayland recently seeing its own standalone releases. But now there is an X.Org Server 21.1 development release as the first step towards a possible new stable release in the future...

It's coming three years later than originally planned but with Ubuntu 21.10 this autumn the Debian packages will now be compressed via Zstd for offering speedier decompression speeds...

Latest patches show Rust for Linux project making great strides towards the kernel  The Register

A set of Linux kernel patches to the asus-wmi driver are pending that improve the support for newer ASUS gaming laptops...

ASUS Laptop dGPU Toggling, eGPU Handling, Panel Overdrive Patches For Linux  Phoronix

How to Use seq to Generate a Sequence of Numbers in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Use seq to Generate a Sequence of Numbers in Linux  MakeUseOf

How to install Thinkorswim on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Jupiter Nano Is a Tiny Microcontroller That Runs Linux  Tom's Hardware

Last year I wrote about NVIDIA working on Vulkan support for RDMA memory. That work around RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) memory usage in the Vulkan context is now available with today's Vulkan 1.2.184 specification update...

QNAP releases QTS 5 .0 beta with Linux Kernel 5.10  Geeky Gadgets