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command will not process in Linux 19.1 terminal - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Running BSDs On The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series - FreeBSD vs. Linux Benchmarks  Phoronix

Over the past nearly two months we have been running a lot of Linux benchmarks on the AMD Ryzen 5000 series, but what about the BSD operating systems with these Zen 3 desktop CPUs? Recently I got around to trying out a few of the BSDs on a Ryzen 9 5900X desktop as well as running some FreeBSD 12.2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks, including with Linux on OpenZFS and Clang.

Linux Systems Administration Engineer  Gi Media

CentOS And HPC: It’s Okay, We Are Moving On  The Next Platform

CentOS Rebellion Against Red Hat Gains Momentum  DevOps.com

For those running PostgreSQL database servers (and potentially similar workloads) on AMD EPYC servers, Linux 5.11 is bringing a very nice Christmas gift in the form of better performance for at least some 2P server configurations...

Why Red Hat dumped CentOS for CentOS Stream  ZDNet

While the Linux 5.11 merge window is only half-way through with prominent pull requests like the DRM / graphics driver updates already have been merged some of the testing has already begun at Phoronix of this new kernel. With the Radeon RX 6800 XT "RDNA 2" graphics continuing to mature, we are seeing slight uplift in some benchmarks when moving from Linux 5.10 stable to Linux 5.11 Git...

Supercharge your Wi-Fi router for 2021 with the Linux-based DD-WRT  BetaNews

Font Manager: A Simple Open-Source App for GTK+ Desktop  It's FOSS

As expected, the Wayland 1.19 release dance has begun...

The Fedora Project is the latest open-source software project working to migrate their Git repositories off using the existing default branch name of "master" and instead using "main" but for some repositories will be "rawhide" where it better aligns with the usage in Fedora Rawhide packages to their development development...

Best Linux distro for gaming in 2020 – Bestgamingpro  Best gaming pro

Few of us really want to read articles about security. They're usually uncomfortable (and overwhelming) reminders of the things we aren't doing to keep our data safe and secure. Luckily for us, this year, Opensource.com authors specifically focused on writing about manageable security tasks. Some are afternoon projects, while others are small steps you can take to improve your default security settings.

Here are 13 of our favorites.

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Linux probably needs no introduction. The Linux kernel is at the heart of numerous Linux distributions that run on desktops, laptops, and servers. The Android operating system for mobile phones also uses the Linux kernel. In short, Linux is almost everywhere.

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Understanding Bash: A guide for Linux administrators  TechRepublic

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...