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Use your Raspberry Pi as a productivity powerhouse

opensource.com - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 16:02

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 16 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

The Raspberry Pi is a pretty amazing little computer—small, surprisingly powerful, and very easy to set up and use. I have used them for home automation projects, dashboards, and a dedicated media player. But can it be a productivity powerhouse as well?

The answer is, quite simply, yes.


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Automate setup and delivery for virtual machines in the cloud

opensource.com - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 16:01

If you're a developer or hobbyist using a Fedora qcow2 image for the cloud, you always have to do a bunch of initial configuration before an image is ready to use. I know this all too well, and I was eager to find a way to make the setup process simpler. As it happens, the entire Fedora quality assurance team feels the same way, so we developed Testcloud.


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Write GIMP scripts to make image processing faster

opensource.com - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 16:00

Some time ago, I wanted to give a blackboard-style look to a typeset equation. I started playing around with the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and was satisfied with the result. The problem was that I had to perform several actions on the image, I wanted to use this style again, and I did not want to repeat the steps for all the images. Besides, I was sure that I would forget them in no time.


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GParted 1.2 Released With Support For exFAT File-Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 13:20
GParted as the widely used, GUI solution for managing Linux partitions/file-systems on the Linux desktop now finally supports dealing with exFAT file-systems...

Linux open pci device - TandaaBiashara

Google News - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 11:31
Linux open pci device  TandaaBiashara

GNOME 40 Alpha Released

Phoronix - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 10:11
GNOME 40 is now available as the first step towards releasing this updated Linux desktop environment in March...

Radeon ROCm 4.0.1 Released For AMD Open-Source GPU Compute

Phoronix - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 09:12
Last month marked the release of the big Radeon Open eCosystem 4.0 update (ROCm 4.0) while today that has been replaced by a v4.0.1 point release...

AMD Celebrates Five Years Of GPUOpen

Phoronix - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 04:17
Today marks five years since AMD began the GPUOpen initiative for providing more open-source Radeon GPU code projects, code samples, and more for better engaging GPU/game developers in the open...

Mozilla Announces "Open Web Docs" Following Last Year's Layoffs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 01:51
Last year during the big round of layoffs at Mozilla the entire Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) writers team was laid off. That was a particularly sad blow considering how valuable the MDN documentation has been to web developers as a very useful resource. Today the Mozilla folks are announced Open Web Docs in seemingly looking to have the community take over...

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