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The first alpha release of LibreOffice 7.2 is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release of this open-source office suite update in August...

Google’s new Fuchsia OS arrives first on old Nest Hub  The Verge

The post How to Install Latest Mate Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

MATE desktop is a simple, intuitive, and attractive continuation of GNOME 2. It is under active development to bring about constant improvements using modern technologies while holding to the traditional desktop experience. There are

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[Solved] Make Command Not Found Error in Ubuntu Linux  It's FOSS

The multitude of well-publicized breaches of large consumer corporations underscores the critical importance of system security management. Fortunately, there are many different applications that help secure computer systems. One is Kali, a Linux distribution developed for security and penetration testing. This article demonstrates how to use Kali Linux to investigate your system to find weaknesses.

Kali installs a lot of tools, all of which are open source, and having them installed by default makes things easier.

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How to add Linux apps to Windows in just one easy step  PCWorld

Build 2021: Windows 10 Updates Include Linux Improvements and Windows Terminal 1.9  WinBuzzer

The Flatpak application distribution model is helping developers target Linux in a new and easy way, and it's helping Linux users install more applications without worrying about what version of Linux they're running. It's an exciting technology, and on my Fedora Silverblue system, it's the default package installation method. All of my desktop applications on Silverblue and several of my favorites I use on Slackware are running as Flatpaks.

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The post How to Install Latest Cinnamon Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this tutorial, we shall walk through the various steps that you can follow to install the latest stable version of Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu and Fedora. Before we move any further, let us

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Running Modern Linux From A Single Floppy Disk  Hackaday

What are Daemons in Linux? Why are They Used?  It's FOSS

After Intel originally proposed zero-copy capability for the Linux kernel's AF_XDP high performance packet processing code years ago and implemented for their higher performance network hardware/drivers, with Linux 5.14 the common Intel "IGC" Gigabit Ethernet driver is set to introduce AF_XDP zero-copy support...

Linux 5.14 To Bring Intel IGC Driver Support For AF_XDP Zero-Copy  Phoronix

Viewing compressed file content on Linux without uncompressing  Network World

Following the earlier release candidate, Inkscape 1.1 is now officially available as the latest feature update to this leading open-source vector graphics application...

How to Transfer Files Wirelessly Between Linux and Android With Warpinator  MUO - MakeUseOf

Following February's release of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2, the release candidate to Lx 4.3 is now available for testing...

OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 RC Released With LLVM 12 Toolchain, Linux 5.12 Kernel  Phoronix

Lilbits: Linux phones and laptops, gaming on the Surface Duo, and is Netflix the Netflix for games?  Liliputing

Lilbits: Linux phones and laptops, gaming on the Surface Duo, and is Netflix the Netflix for games?  Liliputing