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If you look online for great open source text editors, you’re bound to come across Notepad++. An enduring and popular editor, Notepad++ is built only for Windows. I use the open source operating system Linux but was nevertheless curious to experience Notepad++. Fortunately for me, I discovered one way to try Notepad++ (yes, it’s WINE) and one way to approximate it.

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If you use the file sync & share platform and want to expand its functionality by adding online editing features, you should definitely give a try to ONLYOFFICE Docs. ONLYOFFICE Docs allows you to

The post How to Install ONLYOFFICE Docs on Debian and Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Lavapipe (nee Vallium) continues picking up more functionality for this software-based Vulkan implementation just as LLVMpipe is to OpenGL...

Red Hat’s video and animation team kicked off 2020 with lots of exciting projects on the horizon, but like many organizations, the COVID-19 lockdown created unique hurdles for those of us in the creative community who are used to traveling and shooting footage on site.  Like others, we had to adjust to find new ways of collaborating and creating meaningful content despite working remotely.

Arcan, the rather unique and innovative display server in development for about five years, is now matching or even surpassing the feature parity with the X.Org Server and have also issued a new release of their "Durden" desktop environment build atop Arcan...

Latest Update 2020: Linux Software Market by COVID19 Impact Analysis And Top Manufacturers: Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon, Novell, etc. | InForGrowth  LionLowdown

Arch Linux-based Manjaro ARM 20.12 is here for Raspberry Pi 4, Pinebook, Odroid N2, and more  BetaNews

The main feature change for the XFS driver code in Linux 5.11 is adding a new "needs repair" feature flag. When the XFS code marks a file-system as needing repair, it will refuse to mount until the xfs_repair operation is run on it...

Linux 5.11 XFS Will Flag File-Systems In Need Of Repair  Phoronix

Revealed earlier this year was the Arm Straight Line Speculation (SLS) vulnerability. SLS was a Google discovery for modern ARMv8 CPUs where speculative execution past unconditional changes in control flow could lead to information disclosure via side-channel analysis. Arm recommended compiler-based mitigations to insert speculation barriers after vulnerable instructions, which GCC and LLVM began adding opt-in protections right away. This weekend some additional SLS functionality was added for LLVM...

Building off Friday's release of Wine 6.0-RC3 is now an updated Wine-Staging build for those that want a more experimental/testing blend of Wine...

The KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) changes were sent in today for the Linux 5.11 cycle...

Fossapup newbie - questions - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

The Open Organization community published more than 30 articles at Opensource.com this year (to say nothing of the books we released, too). That's 30 new case studies, interviews, tutorials, and book reviews showcasing the ways open principles are impacting organizational culture and design.

Choosing a favorite seems like an impossible task. But our data have revealed the five most-read pieces of 2020.

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How to configure networking on a Linux server  TechRepublic

KWrite is a desktop text editor for KDE’s Plasma desktop. It’s meant to be a universal application that anyone can reasonably use when they need to jot down a quick note, write a school paper, do some programming, and/or anything else you can think to do with a text editor. It uses components of the Kate editor to create a simple interface but leverages those same components to provide a long list of useful features.

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It looks like Mozilla Firefox very soon will be enabling support for AVIF as the image format based on AV1 video coding...

After undergoing review the past several months, Intel's Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) is merged with the Linux 5.11 kernel...

Intel Platform Monitoring Technology Is Supported By Linux 5.11  Phoronix

How to Create a New File in Linux  MakeUseOf