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How to install XFCE GUI on Oracle Linux 8 or 7? - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Recently, I stumbled on an old MacBook Pro 13" from late 2011, with a 125GB SSD and 8GB RAM. I've taken this machine on trips around the world, and back in the day, I ran many a session, workshop, or demo to share all the AppDev goodness from JBoss technologies.

After verifying that its battery works, charging it up, and reinstalling a new OS X, it turns out that the Safari browser version is limited to an old security specification, which means it can't connect to a lot of HTTPS sites now. This renders this solution defunct.

What to do with this old thing?

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The Semitic root q-d-m in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic is usually associated with moving forward or making progress. The Arabic word taqaddum (تقدّم) means "progress." Progress is important. As every feel-good movie will tell you, the journey is as important as the destination.

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The Haiku operating system is a bold but successful attempt at reviving an old OS called BeOS. In the 1990s, BeOS was positioned to become the foundation for the next evolution of the Apple Mac line of computers. Back in the 1990s, Apple Inc. was poised to acquire BeOS as its next generation operating system. At the last minute, however, Apple decided the price was too steep and acquired the UNIX-based NeXT operating system instead (and so Mac OS X was born).

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New Linux Driver To Support Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense Controller  Fossbytes

This article will be showing you how to convert the pages of a PDF document to image files (PNG, JPEG, and others) using the GIMP tool in Linux. GIMP is a free, open-source, fully-featured

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Syxsense Extends Support for Amazon Web Service Linux Devices  CIO Applications

The systemd service and system manager had another busy year with the merging of "homed" for modernizing and reinventing home directory capabilities to "oomd" being merged for improving the Linux memory pressure / out-of-memory handling, among other new features coming to light...

Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020 With Homed, OOMD Components Merged  Phoronix

Libmicrohttpd as the GNU project's embedded HTTP web server library is out with a final release of 2020...

Each of the past several years it has been interesting to monitor Microsoft's engagement in the open-source and Linux communities. Over 2020 there were interesting strides from Samsung upstreaming their improved exFAT file-system driver after having Microsoft's blessing to Microsoft contributing more and more to Mesa in leveraging the OpenGL/OpenCL code in various Windows components to new WSL2 capabilities...

2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux  Phoronix

Git 2.30 is out today as the latest stable release update of this wildly-popular, distributed revision control system...

It didn't land for Linux 5.11 but it looks like Linux 5.12 could end up supporting Intel's "HDR Backlight Interface" for helping newer Intel laptops with their backlight controls where they don't comply with VESA specifications but rather catering to Intel's proprietary interface...

Linux 5.12 Could Support Intel's Proprietary HDR Backlight Interface  Phoronix

Sony's PlayStation 5 Controller Now Works With Linux  Tom's Hardware

This CentOS alternative will be available by spring 2021  Techradar

This CentOS alternative will be available by spring 2021  TechRadar

This CentOS alternative will be available by spring 2021  TechRadar

Sony's PlayStation 5 Controller Now Works With Linux  Tom's Hardware