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Let's say you want a lightweight desktop environment, with just enough to get graphics on the screen, move some windows around, and not much else. You find traditional desktops get in your way, with their notifications and taskbars and system trays. You want to live your life primarily from a terminal, but you also want the luxury of launching graphical applications. If that sounds like you, then Pekwm may be what you've been looking for all along.

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Vagrant describes itself as "a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the 'works on my machine' excuse a relic of the past."

Vagrant works with a standard format for documenting an environment, called a Vagrantfile. According to Vagrant's website:

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New Linux Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Encrypted VPN Connections  Internet

Linux Bug Opens Most VPNs to Hijacking  Threatpost

Knowing what motivates people is a smart way to recruit contributors to an open source project—and to keep them contributing once they've joined.

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In this Part 6 of Ansible Series, we have covered a few Ansible modules in the past topics, we will now go deeper and discover additional modules that are helpful in performing a number...

One of the prominent additions coming with the C++20 programming language is the consistent comparison operator, or "spaceship operator" as it's commonly referred to. The support was merged for GCC 10 last month ahead of entering stage three development while this week some more improvements were made to the implementation...

Following last week's Arm architecture updates for Linux 5.5, sent in via four pull requests on Thursday was all the new and improved hardware enablement for the SoCs and single-board computer platforms...

Linux 5.5 Lands Broadcom BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Bits  Phoronix

While we aren't even half-way through the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development cycle yet, Ubuntu's Trello board provides a look at some of the changes and new features being at least considered for this next Ubuntu long-term support release...

Debian 11 "Bullseye" isn't expected to be released until well into 2021 but out today is the first alpha release of the Debian Installer that will ultimately power that next major Debian GNU/Linux release...

Disney+ Now Works in Linux After DRM Tweak  BleepingComputer

5 Not to miss Linux hosting providers  TechGenyz

Linux For All Shines on LXDE Desktop  LinuxInsider.com

1. New Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections  BleepingComputer
2. Hackers Can Hijack VPN Connections Using A New Linux Vulnerability  Fossbytes
3. Tricky VPN-busting bug lurks in iOS, Android, Linux distros, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, say university eggheads  The Register
4. New Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections on Most UNIX Systems  Softpedia News
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New Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections  BleepingComputer

Start looking forward to March when NVIDIA looks to have some sort of open-source driver initiative to announce -- likely contributing more to Nouveau and we're crossing our fingers they will have sorted out the signed firmware situation to unblock those developers from delivering re-clocking support to yield better driver performance...

NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020  Phoronix

Purism Announces "Made in USA" Librem 5 Linux Phone, Now Available for Pre-Order  Softpedia News

Purism Librem 5 USA is a made-in-America version of the Linux smartphone (for nearly 3X the price)  Liliputing